Dec 3, 2024 | Get Yourself There |
Clients and students often ask me, “C.J., you always seem to have a million things going on. How do you keep track of it all?” Their questions imply that they believe I am more organized, focused, or productive than the average bear. Personally, I’m...
Nov 19, 2024 | Get Yourself There |
Modern always-connected life wasn’t designed for the professional or creative who needs to focus. It’s almost as if there is an internet-based conspiracy to interfere with your most important work. Kate I. Foley, an impossibly-young fiction author and...
Oct 8, 2024 | Getting Clients |
I often wonder how the practice began among self-employed professionals and creatives of pretending to be someone else in order to promote your business. You know what I’m talking about — it’s the marketing face, the selling voice, that you often put...
May 17, 2024 | Writing and Creating |
We self-employed professionals and creatives are always generating new stuff. We write blog posts, develop courses, and generate copy for our websites and emails. Some of us create unique work on behalf of our clients. To become prolific at this constant stream of...
Apr 19, 2024 | Business Model |
A curious thing happens to self-employed professionals and creatives in the spring of every year. They wake up one day and realize they’d better figure out how much money they made last year so they can file and pay their taxes. But wait, shouldn’t a...
Mar 25, 2024 | Self-Employment Secrets |
As a self-employed professional or creative, you’re creating new stuff all the time. You may write blog posts, design courses, produce marketing copy, craft speeches, create designs for clients, devise strategic plans, or dozens of other possibilities....