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Career Articles
A Stay-at-Home Dad’s Guide to Marketing
If you can sell broccoli to a kid, you can sell anything Marketing isn’t hard. Sorry, let me rephrase that. Marketing isn’t hard when you’ve…
Adopt These 5 Frameworks When Life Hits You in the Face
Get out of your career, creative, or lifestyle rut The body and mind are incredible things. Miracles if you think about it. We live our…
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Feeling Stuck? Stop Looking for Complicated Solutions to Simple Problems
The ultimate problem-solving technique is right in front of you “Baking soda.” My friend adored my shiny stovetop, which until a few days prior, had been…
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This 104-Year-Old Former Girl Scout Leader Gives the Best Career Advice
Success, clarity, and creativity come with age We’ve all heard the stories of Colonel Sanders, Ray Kroc, and Julia Child finding success later in life. They’re…
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How to Detect the Ugly Grasp of Self-Employment Burnout
The 3 early warning signs It’s Monday morning. You spent the weekend with the wife and kids. You watched Moana for the 1,000th time and checked…
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Stop reading quit-your-job advice articles
Ask yourself these important questions instead Quitting your job has become over-hyped and glorified. I’ve seen too many advice articles written by 20-somethings claiming to…
Life Articles
Happymess: The Joy of Clutter
As much as I love tidiness, I’d rather live a life full of happymess.
How I Paid Off $14,383.15 of Credit Card Debt in 366 Days
While most people awoke the morning of January 1st, 2020 — blissfully unaware of the dumpster fire ahead — I awoke in a panic. No, I was not some…
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The 20 Things That Made Life Better in 2020
It’s been a while since I’ve written up a good ol’ listicle. And what better time to dust off my number listing skills than at…
What to Do When the Aimlessness Strikes
Don’t jump to hasty life decisions as I do I used to never understand the fuss around Christmas. The music, the decorations, the cookies. It all…
My Life Changed After I Bought a Bidet (Yes, I’m Serious)
How investing in your a**hole leads to bigger and better life improvements I was skeptical at first. Doesn’t it create a bigger mess? Will it…
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How to get your daily life back on track after moving
I am currently typing these words in my new home office. “Office” is a bit of a stretch. There’s a desk positioned, as always, in…
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Creativity Articles
Take Back Your Timeline, Beat the Algorithm, and Curate Content That Keeps You Inspired
I unfollowed everyone on Twitter because I haven’t done a great job protecting my attention and focus. Instead, I used Twitter’s built-in Lists feature to be more intentional about the content I’m exposed to. After a few weeks, I’m spending less, but more dedicated, time on Twitter.
A Manifesto for the Online Writer Who’s Lost Their Love of Writing
Stop playing the viral slot machine My kid was anxious to buy his book about animal kingdoms. He’s 5 and possesses the consumer certainty only…
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The Write-When-You-Don’t-Feel-Like-Writing Advice is Crap
You don’t have to be a slave to your keyboard. I get the write-every-day-no-matter-what advice. I do. Having a daily habit of attempting to write is…
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Want to be more creative? Get comfortable in your own skin
Stop creating mass-produced imitations and make things only you can make. Imagine for a second, that you’re standing on a busy city sidewalk. The bustle swirls…
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Creativity looks different as a 30-year-old (versus a 20-year-old)
9 reasons to rethink how you look at creativity When I was 20, I put creativity on a pedestal. Now creativity is just another part…
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The 4 simple lessons that’ll make you a better writer
Advice I learned from a fiction author’s Masterclass What are the lessons that’ll make you a better writer? Finish the things you don’t want to…
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