Productivity

Sumo Paint – a free online Photoshop alternative

If you work on the web a all, there’s a good chance you need graphics for your website or blog from time to time. If you’re serious about your graphics, you might even have a copy of Photoshop on your computer.  But chances are that if you’re like most people, there are times when you [...]

Resetting yourself and your space between large projects

If you’ve ever come off the tail end of a project that has taken an extended amount of time, it’s possible that you have found yourself staring blankly at your monitor and wondering “what do I do next?”
This is a completely understandable reaction.  Think about it, you’ve just singlemindedly poured your creative heart and soul [...]

A New Year, New Focus, New Goals

As the new year approaches I’ve been spending a lot of my time looking at the web properties I own, my motivations in creating them and the purposes they serve in my life and business today.  The short answer for most of them was that they no longer served any purpose at all. No matter [...]

Chris Garrett does it again with a radical productivity tool

Most of you are probably aware that scheduling a post to appear at a date in the future is as simple as setting the date in advance before you hit the publish button in the admin interface. While it’s simple to do this if you’re setting one post at-a-time, managing a large number of scheduled [...]

The last chapter drags on…

Why is the last chapter of a book so hard to write?  Most of the rest of the manuscript came together in just about two weeks total, but finishing this thing is like pulling teeth from a chicken.  I just can’t get those last few hundred words to roll off the keyboard.
Maybe it’s the fear [...]