Published in The Startup·PinnedMember-onlyYour 9–5 Is Your Biggest Competitive Advantage. Never Give It Up.What everybody gets wrong about a 9–5 — A 9–5 gets a bad rap. People will tell you the thing you need to do is to ‘quit the rat-race’ to find happiness. Work for yourself they say, you’ll be happy they say. The trouble is, well actually many things, but the main hole in this argument is the…Work4 min read
PinnedMember-onlyAbout Me — Hey I’m Eve :)A virtual hiya! (updated 10th July 2022) — Most Viewed This Week: I’ve Had a Side Hustle For 2.5 Years. It’s Easier Than I Thought. News: Pre-order my new book: 100,000 Words — The Quiet Secrets to Building a Writing Practice Alongside Your 9–5 Newsletter: Join hundreds that subscribe to Part-time Creators Club free here. …Self2 min read
Published in The Startup·1 day agoMember-onlyA Part-Time Creator Might Be Your Dream Job TitleThe inspiration from a dude I never met — Inspiration is a blessing and a curse. Paul Jarvis is the kind of bloke that I can’t help but be inspired by. He’s a web guy, a writer, and perhaps more impressively, created his own category by staying true to himself. You see when everyone was progressing, building, and taking…Business4 min read
Published in The Startup·2 days agoMember-onlyI Wish Somebody Told Me The Real Reason I Failed As a CreatorThe image that made me rethink creatorpreneurship — I’ve been starting at an image for 40 minutes. It’s 7:33 am, it’s hotter than the tarmac left out all day and I didn’t sleep well. That might explain the time that has elapsed looking at this thing or it might well be because there is so much to unpick. …Entrepreneurship4 min read
Published in The Startup·4 days agoMember-onlyI’ve Had a Side Hustle For 2.5 Years. It’s Easier Than I Thought.5 lessons for balancing your side hustle alongside your full-time job — No calendar is the best calendar. Seriously who wants to live by the rules of a menacing, rather overconfident little digital square grid with numbers on it? Not me. But in the busy world of a zillion things to do by lunchtime, sometimes life needs a bit of organization. In…Side Hustle4 min read
Published in The Writing Cooperative·4 days agoMember-onlyHow To Write a Book Alongside Your 9–5 Without Totally Losing ItRound two for me, I have some lessons to share — 25rd September 2022, I’ll publish my second book. It’s wild to say that. Last October, I released my first book and the response was wild (I sold 12 copies and felt like god). But if I’m honest, my first book was a bit of a car crash. It was anxiety-ridden…Authors4 min read
4 days agoMember-only100,000 Words: The Quiet Secrets to Building a Writing Practice Alongside Your 9–5An extract from my new book — The following is an extract of my new book: 100,00 Words: The Quiet Secrets to Building a Writing Practice Alongside Your 9–5 Born in New York J.D. Salinger was a talented writer. He was the kind of guy that would do this thing forever given a chance. He’d not been…Authors5 min read
Published in Better Marketing·4 days agoMember-only5 Digital Writing Habits That Will Hamper You As A BeginnerDon’t repeat the same mistakes I did — I’ve written over half a million words on the internet. In 2020, writing replaced my doom-scrolling habit. I deleted Instagram, deactivated Facebook, stopped going on LinkedIn and funnelled that spare time into writing. In those early days, writing was just exercise for my mind. 2.5 years later, I’m still here…Writer5 min read
Published in The Startup·5 days agoMember-onlyThe Strategy That Levelled Up My Productivity As a SolopreneurA game of understanding where the value is — As life hacks go, a morning routine takes the biscuit. Everyone is obsessed about waking up at 5am, guzzling green juice and journalling down their inner thoughts. This is a miscalculation in value. A task-focus without a strategy isn’t productivity. It’s rapid fire. Instead, shift the thinking, create your strategy…Entrepreneurship4 min read
Published in Curious·5 days agoMember-onlyThe Real Reason You Procrastinate (and What to Do About It)Why hacks won’t work — Procrastination is junk food for the brain. Likely you’ll have searched for procrastination hacks before. You’ll have been hit with reasonable, yet insufficient answers: connect with your goals, think positively, and surround yourself with productive people. All those things are cool, but when you follow that advice and it doesn’t…Productivity4 min read
