Comments on: Staying Motivated Without a Boss (part 1) http://freelanceswitch.com/working/staying-motivated-without-a-boss-part-1/ Freelance Advice and Freelance Jobs Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:22:13 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Neophytech http://freelanceswitch.com/working/staying-motivated-without-a-boss-part-1/#comment-47543 Neophytech Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:40:30 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/working/staying-motivated-without-a-boss-part-1/#comment-47543 Hmm this comes in mind of most freelancers but with practice and focus one can overcome it Hmm this comes in mind of most freelancers but with practice and focus one can overcome it

]]> By: Alejandro Ley http://freelanceswitch.com/working/staying-motivated-without-a-boss-part-1/#comment-1096 Alejandro Ley Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:37:31 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/working/staying-motivated-without-a-boss-part-1/#comment-1096 Oh ***, I'm starting to feel watched. Anyway, Great Post Oh ***, I’m starting to feel watched.

Anyway, Great Post

]]> By: Christian Tietze http://freelanceswitch.com/working/staying-motivated-without-a-boss-part-1/#comment-515 Christian Tietze Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:46:44 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/working/staying-motivated-without-a-boss-part-1/#comment-515 Doin To-do lists is a great thing. I'm a novice of GTD but the process is really helping me along keeping my projects etc. organized. 37signal's Backpack (http://backpackit.com) is a great tool for to-do lists that I will only review when online since a page can have lots of lists and reordering them (even exchanging items between lists) is implemented nicer than on http://tadalist.com. Just my opinion, of course :) Still nothing was able to beat my paper-based system, though. Jack: "GTD" is about teaching you habits to collect, process, organize and do stuff. Working on habits isn't all that easy since you'll probably have a bunch of them ahead of you. Learning everything at once is hard, but the basic idea behind GTD is pretty straightforward. Look for http://zenhabits.com, http://43folders.com or just google for GTD. You'll eventually stumple upon a lot of blogs covering this topic once you start finding some of them since they're heavily connected/linked. Doin To-do lists is a great thing. I’m a novice of GTD but the process is really helping me along keeping my projects etc. organized. 37signal’s Backpack (http://backpackit.com) is a great tool for to-do lists that I will only review when online since a page can have lots of lists and reordering them (even exchanging items between lists) is implemented nicer than on http://tadalist.com.
Just my opinion, of course :) Still nothing was able to beat my paper-based system, though.

Jack:
“GTD” is about teaching you habits to collect, process, organize and do stuff. Working on habits isn’t all that easy since you’ll probably have a bunch of them ahead of you. Learning everything at once is hard, but the basic idea behind GTD is pretty straightforward. Look for http://zenhabits.com, http://43folders.com or just google for GTD. You’ll eventually stumple upon a lot of blogs covering this topic once you start finding some of them since they’re heavily connected/linked.

]]> By: Jermayn Parker http://freelanceswitch.com/working/staying-motivated-without-a-boss-part-1/#comment-72 Jermayn Parker Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:51:47 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/working/staying-motivated-without-a-boss-part-1/#comment-72 Yeah great tips, I actually find a good breakfast the best way to start, many times I have started without anything in my belly and its bad, whole day wasted!! This website also has some good tips, some you've already stated, others you have not. http://f6design.com/journal/2007/03/15/time-management-tips-for-freelancers/ Yeah great tips, I actually find a good breakfast the best way to start, many times I have started without anything in my belly and its bad, whole day wasted!!

This website also has some good tips, some you’ve already stated, others you have not.
http://f6design.com/journal/2007/03/15/time-management-tips-for-freelancers/

]]> By: Esteban http://freelanceswitch.com/working/staying-motivated-without-a-boss-part-1/#comment-59 Esteban Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:37:03 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/working/staying-motivated-without-a-boss-part-1/#comment-59 When I don't feel like thinking, I try to find some simple work to do; I call it the "ant-work". Something like populate a list, copy & paste text, cropping an image, rename files, any activity that is easy and repeatitive but has to be done, and so it could make time goes faster and keep you from worried thoughts and creative collapses. When I don’t feel like thinking, I try to find some simple work to do; I call it the “ant-work”. Something like populate a list, copy & paste text, cropping an image, rename files, any activity that is easy and repeatitive but has to be done, and so it could make time goes faster and keep you from worried thoughts and creative collapses.

]]> By: Jack http://freelanceswitch.com/working/staying-motivated-without-a-boss-part-1/#comment-22 Jack Sun, 08 Apr 2007 12:05:43 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/working/staying-motivated-without-a-boss-part-1/#comment-22 Whats the Getting Things Done methodology? To-do lists work for me sometimes, I find I go through phases with them Whats the Getting Things Done methodology? To-do lists work for me sometimes, I find I go through phases with them

]]> By: Ivan Brezak Brkan http://freelanceswitch.com/working/staying-motivated-without-a-boss-part-1/#comment-21 Ivan Brezak Brkan Sun, 08 Apr 2007 09:17:15 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/working/staying-motivated-without-a-boss-part-1/#comment-21 Daily to-do lists are evil, at least in my opinion. They have never worked that well for me, so I decided to use a simplified and heavily hacked personal adaptation of the GTD - Getting Things Done methodology. For now, it's working quite well, I am getting things actually...done. :) Daily to-do lists are evil, at least in my opinion. They have never worked that well for me, so I decided to use a simplified and heavily hacked personal adaptation of the GTD – Getting Things Done methodology. For now, it’s working quite well, I am getting things actually…done. :)

]]> By: collis http://freelanceswitch.com/working/staying-motivated-without-a-boss-part-1/#comment-20 collis Sun, 08 Apr 2007 09:06:36 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/working/staying-motivated-without-a-boss-part-1/#comment-20 I love to-do lists, though to be honest they don't stop me from doing the fun jobs ahead of the non-fun jobs. The #1 thing that keeps me motivated is looking at my bank account and freaking out :-) I love to-do lists, though to be honest they don’t stop me from doing the fun jobs ahead of the non-fun jobs.

The #1 thing that keeps me motivated is looking at my bank account and freaking out :-)

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