Posts Tagged ‘writing’

February 19

In Your Free Time

There’s often a disconnect between what we spend our “paid” time doing and what we spend our “free” time doing.  It’s this disconnect that makes so many people despise their jobs or rejoice for the weekends — our professions are not the same as our passions.
I was working yesterday with several up-and-coming bloggers.  One of [...]

February 3

Rockin’ the Old School

I learned something about myself last night.  Rather, I remembered something about myself.  When I was in high school, I always had issues typing essays.  I’d write draft after draft and take home C after C on my papers.  It was frustrating, but I managed to keep my grades up through endless re-writes and the [...]

December 14

Keep Things Separate

Many of us struggle to find a sort of balance between our work and our lives.  We bring work home on the weekends, make personal calls from the office, or otherwise blur the lines between things that belong solely in the home or in the office.  It’s important to keep these things as separate as [...]

October 26

Fostering Creativity

The creative muscle is like any real muscle, it can be trained, it can grow, but most importantly it can whither neglect.  It is vital to our careers as marketers to nurture this muscle from time to time, whether by taking a short vacation, doing pro-bono work for an interesting client, or by engaging in [...]

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