productivity

This is a guest post by Tara Brannigan, who makes kick ass jewelry and juggles a very different day job. She is also an Another Passion alumni.

I live a dual life. By day I work in the game industry, writing content and developing strategies for running an online community. On the nights and weekends, I am a jeweler and maker-of-strange-things. I love my life and am incredibly fortunate to be able to pursue my passions. It took a while to get to here though, and I wanted to pass along something I learned along the way:

If you’re anything like me, your day job needs to be something you can feel good about, even if it’s not your dream job. You don’t need to have an ideal situation to pursue your passions, but don’t stay in a draining situation if there’s any way to avoid it. Continue reading…

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3 Ways to Identify Creative Flakes

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No matter what creative field you are in, at some point you will be collaborating or outsourcing parts of your work. An author gets a designer to do her book cover, a photographer might hire a make-up artist and a composer works with a recording engineer. Creatives work together across genres and fields all the [...]

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The Novel I’m Not Writing

The novel I'm not writing...

I procrastinate. All the time. Too often I avoid the inconvenient or challenging by “wasting time” on unimportant stuff. So it has been for as long as I can remember. But I am not sure procrastination is all bad. It depends on what you do with the time you’re supposedly squandering. The question is not [...]

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Is Work Limiting Your Creativity?

Is Work Limiting Your Creativity?

It’s a common misconception that you must limit yourself to a specific niche, and focus on one thing only. That “thing”, whatever it is, will become your bread and butter, your area of expertise, your key to success. It’s a misconception because it is only a half truth.

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How to Survive Hitting The Wall

Survive Hitting the Wall

We’ve all been there. What was once an exciting new project has turned into a grind. What was once a head stuffed full of ideas, is now a whole lot of empty space. You’re out of steam and overworked, almost ready to give up the whole thing and seek greener pastures, doing something else. The [...]

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Working From the Non-Home Office

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What do you do to reduce work-related stress? How do you get the most out of your time? Every freelancer and artist struggles with this at some point. Working from home sounds good, but it’s not without danger. There is a chance you’ll get distracted or interrupted, but the greatest danger is that you will [...]

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Utilizing My Aversion to Phones

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The Phone is my least favorite communication tool. Unless you count the fax machine, but thankfully I don’t own one of those. Talking on the phone makes me uncomfortable, whether I’m getting a call or making it. I’m much better with e-mail and texting. But that’s just me, right? I’m weird that way. Most people [...]

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