Work-Life Balance and Setting Aside Time to Unwind

Can you achieve work-life balance? How do you define it? Whether you have work-life balance and whether you view clear boundaries between the two depends on how much you love your job and how much time you devote to it. Some days, your job eats up so much of your day that you just wantContinue reading “Work-Life Balance and Setting Aside Time to Unwind”

Work-Life Balance: Do you enjoy your job?

Those who love their job as if it were a hobby are lucky. This is even more true if their income is their ideal amount and their coworkers are great to be around. I certainly think of my job as something I could do even while on vacation and not consider myself as working. However,Continue reading “Work-Life Balance: Do you enjoy your job?”

How to Negotiate and Secure a Retainer Fee with a Client

Repost from 2022 Are you a freelancer or contractor constantly looking for new projects or clients? Do you have a roller-coaster income that changes from month to month? If your answer is yes, then consider negotiating for a monthly retainer. A retainer contract is an agreement between a freelancer and their client for ongoing, monthlyContinue reading “How to Negotiate and Secure a Retainer Fee with a Client”

3 Ways to Connect with People and Communicate Online

Why communicate online? You may think it’s less personal than interacting with people face to face. True, you don’t get the same sense of what a person is like when you aren’t in the same room as them. But it has become one of the best ways to connect with people around the world.  AsContinue reading “3 Ways to Connect with People and Communicate Online”

5 Leadership Tips for Self Improvement

It’s easy to be a bad leader, but it’s more challenging to be a good one. You don’t need formal training to be a good leader, just some practical experience and the critical understanding that you should treat others how you want to be treated. And if you want to be the best leader youContinue reading “5 Leadership Tips for Self Improvement”