Improving On What’s There: This Blog
You know that guy who’s always in his garage, fixing something or other on his car or motorcycle? That’s me, with this blog. I am trying to create a really useful artifact.
June 15, 2021
Author: Piya Willwerth
How Should I Structure My Day?
As a creative, you’ll have days where everything you look at inspires you. Other days will drag on.
June 8, 2021
Everybody Starts Somewhere
I’ll be honest: Some people might make fun of you. It’s not fun, and it’s not great, but if you accept that it will happen, it will probably lessen the sting.
June 1, 2021
4 Areas to Level Up Your Life
When did “leveling up” became part of the self-improvement lexicon? Was it a video game thing? I’m not mad at it — just curious. When people talk about “leveling up” or encourage each other to “level up,” what they really mean is doing the work to make their lives better.
May 25, 2021
I Don’t Know What Career I Want
We tend to have a much better idea of what we don’t want, rather than what we do. This is because we don’t know what’s possible.
May 18, 2021
What is Social Cognitive Career Theory?
Do you have problems wrapping your head around things that you want to accomplish? Does it all seem like a very big and monumental task?
May 11, 2021
Google Career Certificates: The Scramble to Gain Skills
The pandemic forced us all to begin living our lives in an abruptly different way. One particular group has been trying to leverage the downtime to springboard into a better career.
May 6, 2021
Happiness is an activity, not a goal
In other words, you need to understand what makes you happy, and work for that — not “happiness” itself. Happiness itself is hazy, undefined.
May 4, 2021
How My Life Changed When I Adopted the Habits of Successful People
Like, it’s weird. I spent so much of my life being a cynical cool kid, and now I wake up (naturally) around 7am and go jogging.
April 29, 2021
3 Core Habits of Successful People
One of the biggest things that got me starting this blog was the idea that success was predictable.
April 27, 2021
The Power of Writing Down Your Goals
When I first decided that I wanted to be self-employed, I realized that I needed to establish a road map and identify some obstacles that stood in the way.
April 22, 2021
Who Are You in 2021?
We’ve all been so used to sleepwalking through life that getting all of this information and disruption at once will take a not-insignificant amount of time to process. And who knows … maybe this disruption is just where we live now?
April 20, 2021
What is the Attention Economy?
When we were all forced, quite suddenly, to stay at home, we were also forced to reckon with how we spent our time — where we directed our attention.
April 15, 2021
The Freelance Manifesto
This is it. This is the one that made me do it. The thing is, I’ve heard this from other people, too: This book gave a lot of people the courage to try freelancing.
April 13, 2021
Getting Over the “Learning Stuff” Hurdle
In my opinion, you know what really sucks? Being called to give the results of an experiment that hasn’t concluded yet.
April 8, 2021
Is It True You Don’t Need Skills to Start a Blog?
The thing that surprises me about a lot of this is that so much of it doesn’t seem to actually require any particular skill.
April 6, 2021
Digital Minimalism
I am always a little surprised when I find out that people I talk to don’t know about Digital Minimalism.
April 1, 2021
Do You Need Social Media to Promote Yourself?
Around three or four years ago, I didn’t have a Facebook profile. This was the first time I quit, and it was wonderful. Let me explain.
March 30, 2021
I Joined Reddit to Learn About SEO
Launching this blog has plunged me into the extremely noisy world of SEO strategy.
March 25, 2021
Eat That Frog!
One of the main issues I have found with many self-help books is that they often promise an “easy” fix. What this book proposes is not, technically, an easy fix, but it is an easy(ish) process.
March 23, 2021
Marketing Yourself: Scheduling Time
Lots of freelancers make the mistake of thinking of themselves as contractors or — gasp! — temporary employees, when really, they’re business owners.
March 18, 2021
Define the Terms Ahead of Time
Avoiding Burned Bridges: Don’t get caught up in scope creep or late payments — figure it out now! And if you were smart about it, you already got half your money up front.
March 18, 2021
Flexibility is Key
If we’ve learned one thing (hopefully more than one thing) in 2020, it’s that having a single source of income is not enough.
March 18, 2021
Mastery
To achieve mastery — to be able to acknowledge yourself as a Master of a skill, a field, or a vocation — you must progress through three stages.
March 18, 2021
Second Careers: Is it too late?
I recently had a conversation with a slightly younger friend of mine, who revealed that they had begun thinking about making plans to have children.
March 18, 2021
Living Your Life vs Enduring it
We’ve got so much to deal with these days. Omnipresent (and omnipotent) social media, a relentless news cycle, financial insecurity, an aggravating government — even before the pandemic, we wanted out.
March 18, 2021
How to Use This Site
What is this thing? you ask, tapping on the screen. What’s it for?
January 2, 2021
