If you’re reading this blog, chances are you’re a creative person with a lot of ideas (otherwise known as a scanner). And your biggest challenges include choosing which idea to pursue, making it happen quickly, and turning your best ideas into something that might make you a living. If that’s the case, don’t try and [...]
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How to end your year on a high
Posted by John on December 29th, 2010
So, how was it for you? What was your 2010 like? No doubt there was some good stuff and some not so good. How will you remember the last 365 days? I think most of us remember the bad all too well and forget all too easily the successes and good times we created. The [...]
Wrapping Up The Year
Posted by John on December 17th, 2010
For those of us who are our own boss and work from home, it’s easy to blur the line between work-time and down-time. This is particularly the case when our work feels more like play! About this time of year a few years back I had a realisation. I hadn’t set a clear date to finish [...]
Neil Mullarkey of the Comedy Store Players on dealing with fear
Posted by John on November 8th, 2010
Every week for the last 25 years, Neil Mullarkey has taken the stage at the most famous comedy club in the UK, The Comedy Store, and started a 2 hour show with no script whatsoever. As you can imagine, he is no stranger to fear. He’s also made brave choices with his career, constantly changing [...]
Mythbusting: “I’ll get lonely working for myself”
Posted by Marianne on August 23rd, 2010
This is a guest post from Marianne Cantwell of Free Range Humans who is collaborating with me on some very exciting projects around Screw Work Let’s Play to be revealed soon. Why working for yourself doesn’t mean working by yourself You’re a people person. You don’t want to be holed up at home everyday, with [...]
Fear of failure? It’s a myth!
Posted by Jay on August 12th, 2010
At every step of your journey to getting paid to do what you love, you will be taking a risk – daring to do something new that is a stretch, that you haven’t done before. You’ll be striding up to an important contact, perhaps even someone famous, and asking them to help you, or to [...]
Catch yourself feeling rich
Posted by John on May 20th, 2010
One day in the course of writing Screw Work, Let’s Play, I found myself sitting outside in the London sunshine at a Thai restaurant with a friend. As we sipped Lemongrass tea and discussed her imminent move to America to further her acting, the conversation turned to money and doing what you love. I said [...]
How to be idle (and still be a success) – a video interview with Tom Hodgkinson
Posted by John on May 19th, 2010
Your vision of the rich life might not be about huge amounts of money. It might be having lots of free time that’s more important to you – just as Tom Hodgkinson discovered. Tom is editor of bi-annual magazine The Idler and author of several excellent books including How To Be Idle, How To Be [...]
5 famous people who had their genius breakthrough while goofing off
Posted by John on April 9th, 2010
Slogging away at your work for hours without a break can be often be counter productive. It’s often in our down-time that our most inspired moments of genius occur. Stepping outside for a stroll, taking some time to play with your children, staring out the window, having a nap, or even bunking off for the [...]
Here’s the single biggest obstacle to your success and happiness
Posted by John on April 8th, 2010
If you can’t decide what you’d really like to do with your life, or you’ve haven’t managed the level of success you know you’re capable of, or there’s something you want to do and you’re holding back from doing it, there’s one culprit behind it all. It’s the number one enemy of your success, creativity, and your [...]
