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I'm a freelancing "creative type" making a career out of helping others express themselves creatively. My site includes both professional & personal content. Here in the blog, you're as likely to read my random musings as something related to my particular twist on self-employment. For more, you might want to read this page.

Wednesday
May232012

"When I get caught up..."

Raise your hand if you're known to think - or utter - the words "When I get caught up..." with any regularity. You too? Yea. Time to cut it out. All of us. We're teasing ourselves. Or - worse - torturing ourselves. It's not a Caught Up Kind of World we live in. Maybe it never was.

How do we learn to be okay with the fact that there's always going to be more to do, though? How to we learn to be okay with a to-do list that has unchecked items remaining, ready to move to tomorrow's list, then the next day's after that? I don't know, but I think we have to try.

Timely as ever, Seth

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Monday
Jan092012

Latest Squarespace site launch: Artist Tracey J. Marshall's artbytjm.com redesign

Screen shot of Greensboro artist, Tracey J. Marshall's newly redesigned website hosted on Squarespace.There is no question that Tracey Marshall knows art. When she decided she wanted to have her website hosted through Squarespace so she could eventually learn to make her own regular updates, she started talking to me. Wanting a complete site facelift for the new year, in addition to more flexibility to update, she'd gotten excited about the possibilities this platform offers - particularly to artists and other creative types who need to manage multiple online portfolios of their work.

If anybody has multiple online galleries, it would be Tracey J. Marshall. This woman has painted more canvases

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Friday
Dec302011

Seth Godin on Productivity Plans

You don't need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment. - Seth GodinSeth Godin's blog post today was written for me. Clearly.

The reason productivity improvements don't work (as well as they could) hit home a little too well. Now... What am I gonna' do about it?