You get your important work done just fine in your job (even if it’s at the last possible moment). So why don’t you make such consistent progress on your own projects? What happened to your plans to change career, start a business or write that book you’ve been thinking about? Did you put it aside [...]
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How to plan a life-changing project in 5 minutes
Posted by Selina Barker on March 2nd, 2011
Sometimes the things we most want seem overwhelming to achieve – like finding work we love, starting our own business, or launching a range of products. The Screw Work Let’s Play solution is the Play Project. Use Play Projects to try out a possible new work direction or business idea and start it right away [...]
Join the 2011 Play Revolution
Posted by John on January 17th, 2011
If your promises to yourself for this year include finding a way to get paid for something you love, I want to help you do it. Last year, Screw Work Let’s Play hit the bestseller lists, was raved about in The Times – twice – and this year, it’s being translated into Dutch, Italian and Korean. But we’ve [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The best 424 words on writing I’ve ever read
Posted by John on August 16th, 2010
One of my favourite pieces of writing on writing that I have ever read is by Paul Graham. Paul is a fascinating entrepreneur. He designed the algorithm used by most anti-spam software around the world and he now runs Y Combinator, a seed funder for startups. He is also a superb essayist. In this short [...]
The hidden factor that’s stopped you escaping your job – and how to fix it
Posted by John on May 29th, 2010
If you’ve begun your journey to do something more interesting with your life and “get paid to play”, there will be times when the going gets tough. Have you found yourself losing momentum, getting disheartened? Or worse still, quietly discovered a month has gone by without progressing anything? What’s your reaction to this? Give yourself [...]
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 [...]
