Archive for November, 2007

How to Write 1000 Words a Day for Your Blog

November 28th, 2007

Photo by S.F. Boegeman
Why 1000? It’s a nice round number and it runs in my mind that in high school every paper that we had to write had a 1000 word minimum. But you could really pick any number that you wanted.
1. Set a side time to write.
Maybe it’s in the […]

37 Simple Yet Worthwhile Goals

November 27th, 2007

Photo by Joan Puigcerver
Negative habits tend to be easy to pick up. It’s easy to be a little too lazy… it’s easy to eat one extra piece of candy… it’s easy to become addicted to caffeine. So I’ve put together the following list of useful habits that I’d like to work on. […]

Giving Up Giving Presents

November 26th, 2007

Photo by Wysz
I love Christmas. I should say that I love the idea of giving. I like the idea that it’s a time of year devoted to family, even though my extended family is far away and we don’t always get to spend the holidays together.
But every year I spent months […]

The Pursuit of Self-Employment

November 24th, 2007

Image by Lori Smith
A few years ago, a friend and I started a wedding photography business. Our short term goals were reasonable. We simply wanted to pay off our start up loan. The longer term goals were more ambitious – we wanted this to become our fulltime jobs. We both were […]