Doing the NAIWE Summer Challenge 2011

NAIWE Summer Challenge 2011It’s halfway through summer, and I’ve just decided what I want to do for the challenge. Remember, it’s a way to “get more done than you thought possible,” so I felt free to post a formidable list of books, rather than just the required three.

The three parts of the challenge are:

  1. Read three books that will stretch your mind and inspire your creative spirit.
  2. Finish one project that’s been nagging at you for longer than you care to admit.
  3. Brainstorm a new project that will bring you an additional stream of income, then take the first step to make it happen.

Read more about the challenge at the NewsWire blog.

I posted my reading list and projects at Do What Matters, Make it Pay, my blog for writers and creative entrepreneurs. It’s a fairly new blog created in response to increasing requests for practical, down-to-earth information on how to create multiple streams of income while keeping the life you love, so you may want to subscribe to it.

So . . . click here to read my response to the NAIWE Summer Challenge. The first book I’m reading is The Creative Entrepreneur: A DIY Visual Guidebook for Making Business Ideas Real by Lisa Sonora Beam.

I chose it because I’ve spent several years reading serious, heavy business books, and was looking for something a bit different. So far, Sonora Beam’s advice is spot on, and I’m enjoying the colorful, creative format. I think it will be a book I can recommend to other creative entrepreneurs. It certainly makes me want to pull out my art supplies and creatively refocus!

Where do you plan to start?

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About Janice Campbell

Before becoming the Director of NAIWE, I spent most of the past two decades working as a freelance writer, editor, speaker, entrepreneur and online literature instructor. I graduated from Mary Baldwin College with a B.A. in English (with honors), and thoroughly enjoy working from home in a field that I love. I've written several non-fiction books, including Transcripts Made Easy, Get a Jump Start on College, and the Excellence in Literature curriculum for grades 8-12. My next project will be about how to earn what you need, doing what you love, from wherever you are.

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