Earlier today, I wrote about how I often have trouble remembering the day of the week because I’m so busy with freelancing. Ok, maybe saying “often” is dramatic, but when you work at home (and often on weekends), it can be really easy to get caught up in work every single day, never really taking time for yourself. And that’s really not healthy.
I guess I should consider myself lucky, since I don’t have kids or a husband to fill my time, but I do have obligations, like a boyfriend and a pet, as well as a part-time job at a …read more

Time Warner’s magazine unit does not have a long future with Time Warner, as the media giant is apparently on the way to selling its magazine business. This information comes from Gordon Crawford, managing director of the Capital Group and a shareholder in the company that insists that the news is correct.
According to Crawford, the company plans to sell its Time Inc. unit, which includes titles such as Time, Fortune, People, and Sports Illustrated in what Crawford sees as an attempt to emulate AOL. By shedding its print division, Time Warner would essentially rely on its television stations and other …read more

In the world of freelancing, time is money – and that’s true whether you are writing fiction or non-fiction. You don’t want to sacrifice quality as you write, but the more writing you can do every hour, the more money you’ll make. So, how can you increase the rate at which you work while still maintaining a high writing quality?

Take large groups of articles about similar topics.

While the first few articles may go slowly, if you’re writing 10+ about the same subject, you don’t have to do tons of new research for every piece. Research is what takes me the …read more

This is the last part in the series about “Freedom in Business” (read part 1 | read part 2) .
One of the things that I want to share in this article is that as a business owners are you are the keepers of your own time and you are in charge of taking “me time” to keep balance in your life. If you can not walk away from your business and take some “me time” then you might want to think about restructuring your business.
Being able to take “me time” can help you become less stressed and it can also help …read more

You know the dates for daylight savings time have changed, don’t you? Instead of the SPRINGing forward an hour on the last Sunday in April and FALLing back the last Sunday in October, this year, and probably for at least several years it starts on the second Sunday of, March (March 11th) and ends the first Sunday of November (November 4.)
That is, assuming your in the United States and don’t live in the few states who ignore this whole business of time change.
Apparently Congress decided back in 2005 that adding four weeks of daylight savings time would save energy. Why …read more