I got a great question from Liz Barnett recently. She asked:
I have a quick affiliate management question.
If you have to choose due to time/resource constraint, which would you consider a better use of time: Nurturing your current affiliates or recruiting new affiliates?
I share my answer in this episode!
Confession time: I struggle mightily with downtime. Like many in today’s world, I am constantly on the go, whizzing from one thing to the next. Go, go, go. Work, work, work. Can you relate? If so, today I’ll share seven ways you can reclaim your downtime.
The first step to reclaiming your downtime is to believe that you can do it.
If you go through life believing that you don’t control your own schedule, you will never control it. If you go through each day thinking that you’ll never truly have downtime, you won’t.
You’ve reached the end of your rope.
You’re burned out on your chasing your dream. It used to fill your life with excitement and promise. Now feels like it’s sucking the life out of you.
So what do you do when you’re burned out with your dream?
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I received an email from a friend recently who was burning out. My friend is a dreamer and a go-getter. He works hard at his day job and hard at his dream. He wakes up early and goes to bed late. And in between he hustles.
And I know something about him that sometimes he forgets, like we all do. I know that it will be worth it and that he will achieve great things.
Allow me to introduce you to Jim Wang from Microblogger.
Jim built a hugely successful personal finance blog all the way back in dial-up days (2005) and now has an awesome blog at Microblogger.com. Check him out and enjoy this bit of awesomeness from him.
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
That’s known as Parkinson’s law and it comes from the first sentence of an essay, written by Cyril Northcote Parkinson, that was published in The Economist in 1955.
It’s since been cited numerous times and while it’s not a law in the “we have tons of data to prove it” sense, it’s an idea that you should take to heart if you’re trying to run a business.
When I started my personal finance blog, Bargaineering, I was doing it as a fun little side project. I’d find myself with a lot of time after work and given the deluge of personal finance news and information I had to digest (reading 401k manuals wasn’t my idea of fun but you have to do it!), I thought it’d be useful to keep a journal. It just so happened that I did it as a blog.
I wish there was a magical time investment calculator. Many sites have an investment calculator for money. I like to use them from time to time to figure out my retirement age and how much European vacation I will get each year, whether I will be able to afford a beach house and a mountain […]