Welcome to Friday. If you’re like me, you look forward to weekends during the busy times especially. Today I’m floating on the remnants of the wonder-drug codeine and its counterpart penicillin. I’ll kill this sinus infection or myself. Either way, I’ll not be sick much longer. Today’s worthy tip: When dealing with client negotiations this…
Say Aaaaahhh
This has been the best week. Yes, I’ve been miserable with this cold/sinus infection, but when I open my email in the morning, I don’t tense up or stress. I smile. More signs that dropping those projects was a great idea. Because I fulfill my obligations, I still have residual edits coming in from this…
Recovering
I’m not talking about my recovery, but yours. Mistakes, errors in judgment, bad decisions just happen. Sometimes it’s because we’re inundated with too much work, sometimes it’s because we open our mouths and insert our foots, sometimes we take on something we’re not sure we can handle. It happens to everyone. How we recover, well,…
Thump, Thump, Thump
That’s the beat hammering out in my sinuses right now. Having had little sleep last night thanks to the sinus infection that’s taken over where the cold left off, I’m exhausted. I went to sleep with high hopes – I’d had a good day, little coughing, much healing. Then I made the mistake of lying…
Politically Speaking
Maybe it’s a new trend and I’m behind the curve, but I’ve been seeing a great deal of email correspondence, tweets, and bold statements lately from business colleagues expressing their political views in group emails or segmented business groups. Before you think I’m overreacting, know that these are people with whom I’ve worked but have…
Showing Up Sick
You may not realize it, but I’ve been sick most of this week. I caught his cold, which isn’t fair – he flies home from warm places and I get to keep the germs he’s shared on the airplane. The last three days have been spent trying to keep my lungs from exiting as the…
Worthy Tip: Finding Value
If you haven’t gone over to Screw You! and read Kathy Kehrli’s account of her Demand Studio experience, please do so. It’s insightful. It’s also a balanced report, one in which Kathy herself is upfront and makes no judgments based on anything but her personal experience. It’s a good read for new writers faced with…
Saying When
No one likes to drop a client, especially when that client has been a steady source of work and income. But we outgrow each other, we move in different directions, and dare I say we bore of each other? By the end of this week, I will have ended a long-term client relationship for numerous…
Limbo, Then Sprint
No, I’m not talking about my exercise program. I’m talking about short deadlines that are made shorter by lack of contracts or lack of something on the client side. Currently I’m sitting on two projects, both of which have an end-of-the-month deadline, both of which are at this moment uncontracted. I have notes to both…
More from Less
The news this morning about the jobless rate and the predictions going forward were less-than-inspiring. Ten percent is bad. Worse, jobs aren’t just drying up temporarily – they’re never coming back or they’re moving overseas. Fewer people are doing more work, and it’s a matter of time before the collective meltdown of overworked Americans occurs….