How Slow Thinking Leads to Fast Results
My sales experience taught me that slowing down and thinking is the path to fast results.
Maddox Locher Nov 14, 2024
ITEC: Objective Standards for Nonfiction Writing
If you want to write powerfully, embrace objective standards. Over my thirty years of writing and editing, I’ve developed a set I call ITEC.
Three Principles for Finding Meaningful, Fulfilling Work
Is your work meaningful and interesting to you? If not, do you have a plan for how to transition to work that is?
Why Independently Choosing Your Career Matters
You might want to ponder whether or not you should follow your parents’ career advice in the first place.
A Simple Process to Prevent Work Overload
"Most people feel best about their work the week before they go on vacation, but it’s not because of the vacation itself." — David Allen
13 Strategies for Becoming a Successful Freelancer: Strategy Thirteen and Conclusion
There’s so much more to say about how to launch your freelancing career, but these thirteen strategies should be enough to get you moving in the right direction.
13 Strategies for Becoming a Successful Freelancer: Strategies Eleven and Twelve
Whether or not social media will help you depends heavily on your industry. In order to decide, you first need to understand its essence.
13 Strategies for Becoming a Successful Freelancer: Strategies Nine and Ten
There are many rules and principles that use numbers and ratios. By “the 70/30” principle, I mean that you don’t need to have 100 percent mastery in every aspect of a project to do it well. If a client says, “Can you do X?,” you can readily say yes if you know how to do at least 70 percent of what they’re asking for.
13 Strategies for Becoming a Successful Freelancer: Strategies Seven and Eight
Many career coaches and professionals have a lot of different things to say about how you should build and deliver your elevator pitch, which is basically a brief sales pitch that you can deliver during an elevator ride with a potential client.