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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Lucky Freelancer 7-Week Intensive Scheduled

It's time to become who you want to be.Do you have a project you need to finish? Perhaps it’s a book proposal, a career map, a first draft, or a final chapter, or maybe you just need to get clear on where you want to go in your freelance career. I offer the 7-Week Intensive to help you get those things done.

You can read more about Lucky Freelancer Coaching and all that the 7-Week program includes by clicking on the pages in the right column. I recommend beginning with the LF Coaching page, then reading the Intensive page. Be sure to note that members of NAIWE (National Association of Independent Writers and Editors) receive a $100 discount on tuition for this event.

Registration for the spring edition of the Lucky Freelancer 7-Week Intensive will close on Monday, April 19, and calls will begin on April 20. For this session, group training calls will be scheduled on Tuesdays at 1:00 p.m. EDT. The next session doesn’t begin until October, so if you need to make 2010 a super-productive year, join us. I think you’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish with someone to guide and encourage you.

Freedom is not in doing what you want to do, but in becoming what you want to be.

Ardis Whitman

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