How to Stay Productive and Focused on Your Goals during the Winter Holidays
Do you mentally check out of all-things-work-related from November through January? Staying productive during the winter holidays can be a challenge, even for the most focused amongst us. But losing focus is usually not a good thing (unless you’ve explicitly planned...
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The Ultimate Gift Guide for Journal-Crazed Creative Entrepreneurs: Bullet Journals, Planners, and Hand-Lettering
Are you in search of a stationery treat for yourself or a thoughtful present for the creative soul in your life? Look no further than the ULTIMATE journal-lovers' gift guide! With the new year rapidly approaching, many creative entrepreneurs, free spirits, and...
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39 Most Epic Online Creativity Courses to Launch Your Creative Business
One thing about multi-passionate millennials: we’re always learning. Learning just for the hell of it. Learning to satisfy our curiosity. Or learning to prepare to take action. Maybe start a business or a side hustle. Sometimes, learning requires investment. Investing...
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I Quit My Job with a 2-Year-Old and a Mortgage: This 112-Page Book Gave Me the Courage
“Fear is the thief of dreams.” That was my dad’s response when I told him the news. I couldn’t have been more relieved by my family’s encouragement after the big announcement. Truthfully, I’d dealt with enough inner turmoil coming to that decision on my own. A few of...
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Finally! The Answer to Getting Stuff Done When You Don’t Feel Like It
This post could have had a bunch of different titles: Nontraditional Strategies for Motivation What to Do When Motivation Just Won't Come How to Kick Yourself in the Butt Maybe You Don't Need Motivation (!!! You'll understand this one in a few...) Ultimately I knew it...
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How to Know If You’re a Bullet Journal Addict
You are now stepping into a judgement-free zone. A world where we can all share in the joys and pains of our abounding (yet borderline unhealthy) love for lightly-dotted, bound stationery. Let's face it - if you clicked on this post, you ALREADY know you've got a...
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Top 11 Personal Development Books for Millennials (of All Time!)
Can you remember your favorite book as a child? The one you insisted on reading over and over and over until you drove your parents batshit crazy? Mine was Bugs Bunny's Carrot Machine. My parents still remember most of the words to this day. What about a book you...
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How to Make the Most of Your Mid-Year Goals Review
The ancient hip-hop proverb warns us: - Ice Cube Through this highly-regarded Ice Cube bop, we learned at an early age the importance of checking yo'self if, of course, you did not wish to wreck yo'self. As most hip-hop proverbs go, this adage can be widely applied to...
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How to Listen to Podcasts…And Actually Get Something Out of Them!
If you're reading this, it's too late... No, I'm kidding, lol! (But honestly it's 8:43 pm on June 28th so Champagne Papi is on my mind!) Okay I'm being serious now. *straight face* If you're reading this, you're probably millennial-aged or younger. That means you're a...
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How to Use Instagram to Build a POWERHOUSE Brand!
Micah Baisden, founder and owner of PowerHouse Sports Academy in Atlanta, GA, was a three-sport athlete in high school. During his collegiate football career, he earned a BS in Education with a concentration in Health and Physical Education. He became certified as a...
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Write to 1K Course Review: How to Launch Your Freelance Writing Career
Imagine an emergency came up and you needed to make money today - right. now. How would you do it? That’s the question I asked myself a while back. I didn’t have an answer. Sure, there are ways to make money quickly, but none of those options had the potential to put...
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Upwork Review: How I Made $1500 in My First 3 Months Freelance Writing
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. I love that quote. It speaks to the fact that even if something isn’t perfect (or completely sucks), it can come in handy at some point. That’s sort of how I feel about Upwork. Lemme explain... Pin me to come back later! If...
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How to Come Up with an Elevator Pitch for Your Creative Business
Keeping it 100% real, I cringe at the phrase, "elevator pitch." It just feels so formal, so stuffy, so played... And if you work in a creative space, it can seem even more unnecessary and high-strung. So why, you ask, is an elevator pitch the subject of an entire blog...
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6 Awesome Alternatives to the Bullet Journal To-Do List
Which kind of journaler are you? One who finds a layout she likes and rides with it 'til the wheels fall off? Or one who likes to dibble and dabble to keep things spicy? Usually, I'm a sucker for consistency, but in the case of my bullet journal to-do lists - i.e., my...
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11 Fantastic Business Habits for Creative Entrepreneurs
Ever wonder what separates a starving artist from a successful artist? Talent? Possibly, but not always. Luck? Sometimes, but that's not a given either. I don't claim to know the magic formula, or whether there even is one... But at least one key difference between a...
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