by chatfielda | Freelancing, Work at Home
A couple years ago a client asked me to write an article about standing desks. I had never seen one before and thought it was a joke. Consider me sobered when I did some preliminary research and learned how many health problems are being attributed to constant...
by chatfielda | Freelance Lifestyle, Work at Home
Last weekend, Margaret and I took our son to Sears to get family portraits. We did it last year when he was five months old and thought it would be nice to do it again this year – these family traditions have to start somehow, right? Of course, the only thing I...
by chatfielda | Entrepreneurship
Branding is an immensely powerful tool, but a lot of people ignore it entirely. So, to ensure you don’t do the same, I’m going to use a different term for it. The “B” word sounds too much like something a marketing department spits out when they want to reach “target...
by chatfielda | Clients and Project Management
I have long been a fan of setting clear deadlines and milestones not only for myself but for the client. This started in my first year on the job when I was given an eBook project that turned into a bit of a nightmare. It was only 15,000 words – barely an eBook...
by chatfielda | Productivity
The other week, someone contacted me asking if I’d be part of an audio interview series he was doing about productivity. I had responded to a forum post he made at some point about productivity and mentioned how much I can write in a single day and he wanted to pick...
by chatfielda | Freelancing
When you write enough words, you start to develop an interesting relationship with the task of typing. By that I mean, there are a few words and phrases that you hate typing and others that you greatly enjoy. I am writing this particular blog post because I just spent...
by chatfielda | Freelance Lifestyle
Before you read the title of this blog post and think that I spent the week ingesting only pickled lamb’s tongues, let me just say, it’s not like that. The experimental diet in question isn’t so much strange as an ongoing test of what works best for...
by chatfielda | Freelancing
Today has been an interesting day. I started it by writing for three hours about a very familiar topic, then came home and wrote for another hour about a very new topic, topping it off with an interview with Dan Allard about writing productivity. It was a writing kind...
by chatfielda | Free Time
I’m not what my wife would call a patient man. I’ve come to terms with that and as a result I feel I’ve developed a much keener sense of patience than I once had. I have a small amount of self-control when it comes to Best Buy and Gamestop (though...
