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Making Writing Work for You
A contemporary guide to making income while writing in a digital world.
Harold Taylor is a testament to the power of writing. Writing has been his key to building confidence as an author, financing his education, and establishing a thriving speaking and training business. Even in semi-retirement, writing continues to sustain his lifestyle, mirroring the success he enjoyed during his professional career.
In Making Writing Work for You, Harold shares the secrets behind his success, offering insights and strategies that anyone who is passionate about writing can apply. Whether you’re a seasoned writer or just starting, you’ll discover that rejection isn’t failure, patience is invaluable, and it’s perfectly fine to explore various genres to find the one that satisfies your creative aspirations. This book is a guide for anyone looking to make writing work for them, just as it has for Harold.
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Time Management Articles:
Do not underestimate the importance of sleep.
A Time Management Article by Harold TaylorYour body is programmed to spend one third of its life asleep – and to sleep in specific cycles of light sleep, deep sleep, and active brain sleep. Each cycle takes about 90 minutes, and each has a specific assignment that...
Are we beginning to outlive our minds?
A Time Management Article by Harold TaylorIn the late 1800s, life expectancy was about 40 years. By the end of the 1900s life expectancy had increased to about 79. In 2021, at last report, it was 82.7. Better health care and living conditions have proven to be great...
Undertime will eliminate the need for overtime.
A Time Management Article by Harold TaylorEnterprise-Rent-A-Car several years ago surveyed 1000 Americans and found that 70% worked at least one weekend a month, with 63% saying that their employer expected them to put in time on Saturday or Sunday. And if they were...
What happened to our travel time?
A Time Management Article by Harold TaylorTraveling on business used to give us an opportunity to get caught up on our work. In my first book, Making Time Work for You, published in 1981 by General Publishing in Canada and Beaufort in the United States, (and out of...
Don’t burn the candle at both ends.
The expression, “burning the candle at both ends,” was first coined in the 18th century. At that time, “both ends” was a reference to both ends of the candle. Candles were both useful and expensive in those days, and...
Efficiency & Effectiveness in review.
When we have a lot of things to do and we start to get behind in our work, we tend to speed up. This could backfire since the faster we go, the more we focus on how much we are getting done and less on what it is we are doing. It goes well if we are always doing the...
The principles of pacing.
If you want to get the right things done in this digital age of speed, work slower, not faster. Your progress is greater when you do not undertake too many projects or tasks at the same time. Have you ever taken on several large projects only to realize that you have...
To maximize efficiency, get in sync with your body’s rhythm.
Pay attention to your body's clock Have you ever felt completely exhausted after work with barely enough energy to flop on a couch after ordering a family-size pizza for dinner? You had completely used up your supply of energy for the day, and yet an hour or two later...
How to become a patient person.
In last week's article, I provided a dictionary definition of patience as “the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.” But more accurately, I should have just said that patience is the opposite of impatience.”...