And it’s all fun and games I was whisked back to elementary school this past Friday when my game arrived. I opened the Amazon box and the game was there. I cracked open that box and separated the seventy-five numbered balls from their plastic molds, loading them into the cage as I did so. I … Read more
And the toll it takes on energy and productivity “Oh, I need to print out that song for practice tomorrow.” “Oh, I need to send that email to Philip to invite him over.” “Oh, I need to make sure the Amazon Prime thing is handled.” These are examples of the Oh-I-Need-To’s that came up tonight. … Read more
Not just create, but build your community Over the past year and a half or so, I’ve been cleansing myself of low-value side hustle activities. “Get Paid To” or GPT sites were the big culprits. Do 8-minute surveys for $0.14, watch 10 videos with ads in between for $0.02, that kind of thing. Most of … Read more
Two I knew, and two I learned today Our family has a lot of capacity for distraction. To combat this, we’ve purchased several Secura 60-minute Visual Timers. They’re battery-powered and have a neat little transparent colored disc that shows at a glance how much time is left. (Full disc is 60 minutes, half disc is … Read more
And what I’m doing to fix it “I work better under pressure.” I’ve come to realize that’s a huge lie. It’s not my secret performance enhancer that I use to vanquish my competition and vault myself up the food chain. Not at all. It’s a crutch. A bad habit. Lack of discipline. A bunch of … Read more
If you’re saying this, you got one thing very right … Putting a product out there for anyone to buy can be scary. So scary, that it’s a wonder you published it at all, right? Agonizing over details, alignment, color schemes, spelling, everything. Editing for clarity. Re-editing. And editing again. Finally you put the link … Read more
Here’s how to set them free. Writing sure accumulates over a couple of decades. Most of mine is on my 20-year-old blog. Nearly 1,300 published articles. Most of questionable quality. All written and published in WordPress. Overall questionable quality … … but somewhat insightful at times. If you were to have absolutely nothing better to … Read more
And how to get it back! “God is very fair. He gives everyone 24 hours.” “You have time to do anything you want. Just not everything.” Great advice … if you actually follow it! I’m a side hustle hoarder. In the worst way. I post a list in my weekly newsletter Side Hustler’s Progress of … Read more
A love note from the trenches “Make money writing on Medium, they said. It’ll be fun, they said.” It’s fun until you: The Second Brain / Zettelkasten / Thought Garden supposedly fixes all of that. Be blown away with a flood of ideas and a cornucopia of brilliance on tap. My Obsidian vault? It’s more … Read more
My wife and I used to make our own dogfood. One of our dogs was forever plagued with ear infections, and it was cheaper to make dogfood that avoided the allergens than it was to buy antihistamines. We did all the research and math to make sure the food was nutritionally sufficient, and got the … Read more