When your brand or product is just getting off the ground, it’s tough to justify exceptionally lucrative terms. It’s good to know this up front. There’s little proof you or your system works, so why should the client trust you? No, it doesn’t matter that a guy you know “is doing this right now for [...]
Alfredo challenged my tactic for using daily goals as a source of motivation, and got me thinking about how these interact with your long-term, performance based goals. First, a caveat: this is targeted at those of us working alone for extended periods of time on something hard. Chugging on a long, difficult project without anyone [...]
It’s easy to get lost in the glory of hammering our your latest project, and forget to set your 1 – 3 daily goals. It might not seem that important if you didn’t set a goal for today. And that just made it easier to not set one or three tomorrow. Sooner or later, though, [...]
If you aren’t an artist, you probably won’t start a successful art website. And you probably can’t run a software company if you (at the very least) haven’t been around a lot of hackers. And it’s unlikely you can instantly whip up a travel writing career if you’ve been tossing salads all your life. You’ll [...]