Dearests, it’s only one week until Awesome Fear-Wrangling goes live! It’s been such an interesting journey; I’d like to share some of the insights I had from this process so far. photo credit: @thewtb Scope creep: good and bad Project managers are dead against “scope creep”, that tendency for inadequately-defined projects to grow and morph…
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Success and failure – what are you really scared of?
It’s time for another exciting guest post! This one is from regular commenter and nifty writer, Gareth. photo credit: GypsyFae For most of us, success and failure are mutually exclusive. For some, failure merely means you haven’t tried often. But whoever you are, you will agree that both success and failure are scary. Failure brings…
How to format a blog post
I think we need a change from all the vulnerable emotional posts of the last week or two. (By the way, I feel much, much better. Thank you, concerned readers!) Fortunately, a reader I shall refer to as Agent T sent me an email asking some very practical questions: I’m in the process of putting…
An Inconvenient Depression
Two mornings ago, after a month of punishing work schedules and a sudden dramatic shift into winter, I woke up with the most vicious black-dog depression I’ve experienced in years. I occasionally have days of mild depression, usually tied in to the available light levels. In winter, or after three days of heavy overcast, it…
Fear & Loathing in Minneapolis: Remember Your Courage
Hello everyone! This is a guest post from the ever-lovely LaVonne Ellis. A long time ago, in a city far away, I had a job I loved. Then I got promoted, and it all went to hell. As the Peter Principle puts it, I rose to my level of incompetence. [Just so you know, I tried to…
Coffee-break research
Learning about a topic doesn’t require you to spend ten years in a university, pounding dusty textbooks as you write a thesis. Or to spend $2,000 on a multi-format course (with bonus binders!). It used to, sure. But this is the internet, remember? Information is free, fast and simple to obtain. If you started using…
It’s not about falling down, it’s about getting back up
It’s time for another guest post! This one is from Nathan Hangen, and it made me cry. Seriously. The glory days I spent 8 years of my life being miserable, not because I wanted to be, but because it was easier to be miserable than to fail again. Years prior, I built a very successful…
Lessons from ice-cream
My friend Troy and I went for ice-cream yesterday. (It’s a ritual of ours.) Troy asked me what tomorrow’s post was going to be about and I came up with twenty possible ideas… but I have forgotten them all. This happens. So instead I ask everyone to say hello to Troy and I will write…
Flexing my brain
In the last three days, I have: Recorded three interviews Written two-and-a-half guest posts Shot, edited and uploaded a video Made about 70 comments Tweeted 350 times Resolved five technical issues Written another 4,000 words for the Awesome Fear-Wrangling resource Reviewed two websites Discussed ideas with an illustrator Reviewed and accepted three offers Filed a…
Why the fear is worth it
Okay, weird time differential thing. I am writing this post (and uploading the video I made two hours ago) on Tuesday morning. Because I have already published a post today I’ll be scheduling this one for tomorrow… which for most of you reading will be Tuesday. But I’ll be talking about stuff that happened 24…