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8 Secrets to Balancing Your Side-Hustle with A Full-time Job

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Why Passion and Balance Do Not Go Together

Balance is one overrated myth for passionate people. How can you teach balance to a burning fire like passion? How can you tell someone to do less of what they love when it pulls them in like a magnet and commands their attention?

I mean, do you honestly believe the fine experts in any field – whether it’s musicians or copy writers or marketers or film directors – had balance and achieved this level of proficiency and knowledge? Or is it more likely that they put in insane hours and crazy effort, way too much time and sweat, and lived in an underworld void of all semblance of balance and normalcy until they had paid their dues to their dreams? [Read more…] about 8 Secrets to Balancing Your Side-Hustle with A Full-time Job

Episode 62: 8 Success Mindsets for Employment vs. Entrepreneurship

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Welcome back to Episode #62 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic 8 Success Mindsets for Employment vs. Entrepreneurship. Before you learn the tools and techniques of the trade in each place, you need to have the right frame of mind, the right way of thinking, the perspective and viewpoints that are going to make you successful in each stage: the stage of employment versus the stage of entrepreneurship, or self-employment. Do you know these different mindsets so you do not make fatal mistakes that are hard to recover from? Do you know the shift you need to make as you go from one to the other? [Read more…] about Episode 62: 8 Success Mindsets for Employment vs. Entrepreneurship

72 Reasons You Should Never Get A Job

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Before you get all bent out of shape from the headline, let me point out that I do not deny the validity of reasons to getting a job. Heavens no, so relax. There are good reasons to working for an establishment and earning a paycheck. I have had plenty of jobs and at least one really cushy job and one day, I may write about The Worst and Best Jobs I Ever Had, and we can swap fun stories over comments and coffee.

But that’s not the agenda for today. [Read more…] about 72 Reasons You Should Never Get A Job

Starting Over: It Is Not Too Late for A New Career

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Starting over is a scary prospect. Our human nature wants to move forward, one foot in front of the other and off we go. We want to blaze trails. We want to climb mountains. We want to sail the seas. We want to fly the skies. And we intend to climb up not down the ladders in our careers and move up not down the financial scale in society.

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So by nature, starting over does not appeal to any of us. Least of all to me! I should know, even though I was spared the brunt of the situation because I was just a kid. My Dad was 40 and my mom in her early 30s when we left Iran for an initial 2-week vacation to Turkey that turned out to be a “vacation” of a lifetime. My parents left everything behind. When they closed the door to our beloved sweet home at 13 Lida Street in Tehran, [Read more…] about Starting Over: It Is Not Too Late for A New Career

Is Finding a Blog Niche Necessary for Success?

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Do you need a niche to be a successful blogger?

The short answer is no, you most certainly do not. But it’s a complicated question so let’s dig in deeper, shall we?

Before we get to digging though, can I just put a disclaimer here saying I happen to love the idea of a niche as long as it does not limit you.

I also love niche blogs – the bloggers focus on a specific subject of interest and become a voice of authority in that and so as a reader, I feel safe learning from them while indulging in their expertise and attention.

To top it all off, I am enjoying emotional and monetary rewards of an accidental niche myself so all in all, niches can be very good, but there is a bigger question I want you to explore first before you go running to find your perfect niche. [Read more…] about Is Finding a Blog Niche Necessary for Success?