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You only need to spend an hour on LinkedIn to see some form of debate around the “hustle” culture. On one side, you have people telling you you have to make sacrifices if you want success. Work evenings. Work weekends. Don’t take holidays. If you love what you do,
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I went to see Billy Ocean on Saturday night. He's 75 years old and he's still entertaining his fans with songs he's been singing for over forty years. Of course, he mixes in some newer stuff, but he still makes sure he sings all
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And what to do if you think you are Let me clear something up straight away – if you’re making money as a freelancer, you are not failing. You are not a failure. Freelancing is tough so the fact you have done it and made money from it is an
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I feel like I have so much to tell you from the last few weeks, but I don't want this email to end up longer than a book, so I'll summarise. My phone got smashed up the night before I went on holiday, and I didn&
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Twenty years ago, I barely did any exercise. It wasn't something that interested me at all. These days, I can’t imagine my life without regular exercise, and I genuinely don’t think I’d be able to deliver the quality of service I do if I didn’
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As I mentioned in last week's email, I'm off up to Newcastle this week for Atomicon (please do let me know if you're going so we can catch up). As I'll be travelling up Monday morning, I'm pre-writing this email.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many freelancers don't take time off for holidays. In 2016, I ditched employment to go all in on my business. And do you know what I did in my first week as a full-time self-employed freelancer? I went on holiday. In
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I'm heading up to Newcastle next week for Atomicon. If you've got tickets and fancy meeting up, hit reply and let me know. I attended Atomicon last year after seeing endless posts about it the year before. It felt like every other freelancer I was connected
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I talk a lot about creating a business that makes you happy, but what does happiness look like to you? For me, happiness is having enough money and time to do the things I enjoy. I don't want to have to say "no" to going on
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Last week, I did talk about content marketing and one thing I said was that your content doesn't necessarily have to be about your product or service. You can write about anything relevant to your target audience. After my talk, I went for a run and I was
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I have always loved writing, so writing for a living seemed like the dream job. And, for a while, it was. I genuinely loved what I did. I was getting paid to write stuff. But after a couple of years, the novelty wore off, and writing started to feel like
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Last week, I had an extremely productive week, but I'm still struggling to attract new members for my group events. So I've decided to increase the value of the membership by running lunch and learns every month, rather than once a quarter. And I've
