I just signed up for Kick over the weekend, but some principles apply everywhere A poker player advertised his Kick.com channel in the game chat over the weekend. He’s trying to go from $50 to $10,000 in six weeks, and he’s livestreaming as he plays to work toward this. I may have heard of Kick … Read more
I wrote this because I need to read this myself. I’m down on myself right now. It’s one-thirty in the morning, and, again, I’ve procrastinated. “… Why do I keep doing this to myself? Stupid, dumb, …” Overall I’m better company for myself than I have been, but not tonight. Let’s try to change that. … Read more
Be systematic in keeping up with your collaborators I learned the hard way that followers leave if they don’t feel valued. Not responding to comments is a great way to make sure your supporters don’t feel valued. I’m determined not to do that again. I do my best to respond to every comment. Responding to … Read more
And it takes a lot of the pressure off Somedays, I see so much potential in others it physically hurts. Friends, acquaintances, even family members who have so much to offer and so many ways that they can help. Some of them work extremely long days for an employer, or work for themselves and are … Read more
My wife is a master seamstress, but she wouldn’t say that. She’ll tell you she doesn’t always know how to make something work when she accepts a job. Yet she always — always — has gotten it to work. She figures it out and it looks great. Is it safety, or is it fear? Sometimes … Read more
And what it all but demands that you do A Medium writer with 10,000 followers or more didn’t start there. When they signed up for Medium, they had no followers, no reads, no subscribers, no income, no nothing. It didn’t stay that way, of course. Let’s look at what happens when I publish an article. … Read more
Decent results without spending a ton of time Recording videos yourself is a skill you develop with practice, just like anything else worthwhile. The first videos you create will likely take a lot of time to record and edit. (Heck, it may take a while for you to get used to hearing your own voice … Read more
A life takeaway from online poker tournaments On any given day, you may not be leading the pack. You may be in the middle, or struggling to stay with it. How you got there isn’t important. Winning or losing, though, is up to you. Not settling for scraps I play microstakes sit-and-go poker tournaments. “Jumpstart” … Read more
Will the dip in earnings be worth it? Google AdSense has long been a simple way to monetize websites. It goes something like this: Back in my blog’s heyday, I earned $600+ in one month with AdSense. One glorious day, I earned nearly $100. Ninety-nine dollars and change. Then came Auto Ads. For most of … Read more
Four things to seek in the face of a below-average assessment Middling performance reviews can be a gut punch, especially when you think things are fine. No one likes to hear that they’re the world’s okayest employee. How you respond to a lukewarm performance assessment, though, is critical both to the way forward and to … Read more