PAMELA SLIM

Dear Beloved Reader:

This guide was compiled to help you build a body of work with ease, fun and creativity.
It is a special gift for those of you kind enough to pre-order the book. If you want to
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It is by no means comprehensive, but rather intended to spur your thinking, ease your
creative process and incite you to action.
It was put together by the ever-resourceful Mindy Holahan (http://
moretimetowrite.com) and will be updated periodically as we get
new ideas and information.
Enjoy the ride!
To your success,
-Pam
Dene Your Roots
Find what it is that drives you.
Dene Your Roots
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Try a gratitude or happiness project.
Whether its Martin Seligmans gratitude visit (exercise begins at 17:00 minutes
in), a 30 day photo challenge, or writing 30 thank you cards in 30 days, taking
time to think about the aspects of your life that you are grateful for can help you
get in touch with what drives you.
Happier (iOS) is an app that encourages you to share at least three things each
day that make you happy. Keep track and see what patterns emerge. (https://
www.happier.com/)
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin is a book and website that explores
what makes a person happy.
Craft an essay for This I Believe.

You may have heard one of these essays on NPR. Listen to a few or explore the
vast archive. Do you agree? Disagree? Do any of the stories spark strong memo-
ries for you?
Keep track of what moves you forward.
Mindbloom (iOS, Android) ofers a suite of apps designed like games to help you
uncover what motivates you to build a healthy, well-rounded life. (https://www.
mindbloom.com/)
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Name Your Ingredients
Identify your skills, strengths, and ideas.
Name Your Ingredients
As you work through the exercises in this chapter, use a mind mapping tool to
organize your thoughts.
Coggle (Webapp) is free and easy to use web-based mind mapping tool. (http://
coggle.it/ and here for a tutorial video http://youtu.be/YC4O4vb7IXo)
MindNode (OSX, iOS) is a mind mapping app for Apple products. Freemium
(both free and paid versions of the app available). (https://mindnode.com/)
Take the Gallup Strengths survey.
Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath is a book and online assessment designed
to help you uncover which strengths you most strongly rely on as you do your
work. (http://strengths.gallup.com/110440/About-StrengthsFinder-20.aspx)
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Choose Your Work Mode
Plan for the next stage of your career.
Choose Your Work Mode
These small business resources are discussed in Chapter 4.
SBA, or the U.S. Small Business Administration, ofering aid and assistance to
small businesses in the United States. (http://www.sba.gov/)
SCORE is a free nonprot that connects small businesses with resources and
mentoring. (http://www.score.org/)
These crowdfunding resources are discussed in Chapter 4. Here are their guides
for getting started.
Indiegogo Field Guide for Campaign Owners (http://landing.indiegogo.com/
iggeldguide/)
Kickstarter School (http://www.kickstarter.com/help/school)
Research an industry that sounds appealing. Heres how.
How to Research an Industry, from the Ithaca College Library. Its an academic
approach for digging deep into the details of an industry. (http://www.ithacali-
brary.com/sp/subjects/industryresearch)
Quora is an online community for asking intelligent questions. People frequently
ask questions about industries, companies, and business models. (https://www.
quora.com/)
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Choose Your Work Mode
When planning future work, it can be helpful to know where youre currently
spending your time. Heres an analog and a digital method for tracking how you
spend your time.
David Seahs Productivity Tools (Downloads) are simple, free PDF downloads
for tracking your time and your goals. Start with the Emergent Task Timer.
(http://davidseah.com/productivity-tools/)
RescueTime (OSX, Windows, Android, Linux) is a program that keeps track of
how you spend your time on your computer. View charts and set alarms to keep
yourself on track. Freemium (both free and paid plans available). (https://www.
rescuetime.com/)
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Create and Innovate
Bring your ideas to life.
Create and Innovate
Learn new skills to help you push the edges of your comfort zone.
99U is a treasure trove of articles and videos about how to put creative ideas
into action. (http://99u.com/)
Codecademy (Website) will teach you to program in a variety of programming
languages to build websites and apps. Lessons start at the absolute beginner
level. Free. (http://www.codecademy.com/)
creativeLIVE ofers in-depth, interactive workshops from artist entrepreneurs.
Live workshops are free to watch; previously recorded workshops are available
for purchase. (http://www.creativelive.com/)
Khan Academy covers seemingly every topic under the Sun, from basic alegra
to macroeconomics to art history. Free. (https://www.khanacademy.org/)
Lynda.com ofers step-by-step tutorials for a wide variety of computer programs,
as well as courses on business fundamentals. Some free content, most requires
a subscription. (http://www.lynda.com/)
Treehouse is another site for learning programming and app development. Re-
quires a subscription. (http://teamtreehouse.com/)
Keep track of your progress on projects.
Asana (Website, iOS, Android) is a freemium (both free and paid plans) project
tracking tool designed to share task lists and milestones with a team. Collabora-
tive. (https://asana.com/)
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Create and Innovate
Basecamp (Website) from 37Signals is a paid project-tracking tool designed for
teams to discuss, monitor progress, and share les. Collaborative. (https://base-
camp.com/)
Flow (Website, iOS) is a paid project-tracking tool similar to Basecamp. It has an
excellent calendar view, allowing you to easily toggle between your tasks and
the entire teams tasks. Collaborative (http://www.getow.com/)
Trello (Website, iOS, Android, and Windows) is a free project-tracking tool that
treats tasks like a series of index cardsgreat for visual thinkers. Collaborative.
(https://trello.com/)
Show of your portfolio of work.
Behance (Website, iOS) is a professional platform for showcasing creative work
and a job board, connecting creatives with potential employers/clients. (http://
www.behance.net/)
Carbonmade (Website) is a freemium portfolio platform for displaying your cre-
ative work. (http://carbonmade.com/)
Dribbble (Website) is a portfolio platform for showcasing creative work, and like
Behance, also has a job board. (http://dribbble.com/)
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Surf the Fear
Manage your fear and anxieties.
Surf the Fear
Try a rejection project.
Jia Jiang was paralyzed by the rejection he faced as he built his business, and so
he set out to overcome his fears. (http://www.fearbuster.com/100-days-of-rejec-
tion-therapy/)
Meditate.
Calm.com (Webapp) is an easy way to get started with meditation, beginning
with sessions as short as two minutes long. (http://www.calm.com/)
Remove the distractions that help you succumb to Resistance by installing a
web browser extension.
Inbox Pause (Chrome) adds a pause button to your Gmail inbox, so that you can
temporarily stop email from coming into your inbox. (http://inboxpause.com/)
LeechBlock (Firefox) lets you block up to six sites at a time on a schedule you
set (i.e. no social media while you should be working). (https://addons.mozilla.
org/en-US/refox/addon/leechblock/)
Mindful Browsing (Safari) manages mindless web browsing by popping up an
Are you sure? box for any sites youve restricted. (http://www.mindfulbrowsing.
com/)
StayFocusd (Chrome) lets you limit the amount of time youre able to access
particular sites (such as social media, Reddit) each day. Once youve hit your
limit, youre blocked for the day! (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/
stayfocusd/laankejkbhbdhmipfmgcngdelahlfoji)
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Surf the Fear
Stay focused on the task at hand.
30/30 App (iOS) is a simple, elegant app that uses a work cycle to keep you
focused on one task at a time (e.g.: 30 minutes on writing, 10 minute break).
(http://3030.binaryhammer.com/)
Timer (Android) is an elegant timer app for the Android phone. While it doesnt
use a work cycle like 30/30, it does let you save multiple timers for repeated use.
(http://www.opoloo.com/portfolio/timer)
Try an old-fashioned kitchen timer, because the analog method works too! Get
yourself an handy egg timer, set it for 30 minutes and keep working until it rings.
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Collaborate
Form the team that will help you reach your goals.
Collaborate
Connect with like-minded people in person.
Coworking spaces are centers where freelancers can rent a desk and gain
access to meeting space, and many of them become thriving hubs for creative
professionals, with events and programs to connect the community together.
Check out this worldwide directory to see if there is a space near you: http://
wiki.coworking.com/w/page/29303049/Directory
Hackerspaces are similar to coworking spaces, but they are for artists, builders,
and engineers who like to make things with their hands. Many feature classes
and open hacks, to invite in the community. Check out this worldwide direc-
tory to see if there is a hackerspace near you: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/
List_of_Hacker_Spaces
Hold audio and video chats with your team.
Google Hangouts (Website, Chrome Extension, iOS, Android) ofers free audio
and video chats, using your Google log in. (http://google.com/hangouts)
Google Hangouts On Air (Website) lets you broadcast your Google Hangouts
live simultaneously on Google+ and YouTube (and you can embed them in your
website). The hangouts are automatically recorded to your YouTube channel for
playback. Free. (https://plus.google.com/hangouts)
Skype (OSX, Windows) is a free program for audio and video chats (you need a
paid subscription for group video calls). Its a great tool for holding coaching ses-
sions, meeting with friends, and recording interviews. (http://www.skype.com/
en/)
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Collaborate
To record on a Mac, install Ecamm Call Recorder (http://www.ecamm.
com/mac/callrecorder/); to record on a PC, install Pamela for Skype (http://
www.pamela.biz/en/). Great name, huh?!
Work on projects as a team with these collaborative writing tools.
Draft (Website) has clear version control, allowing your team members to edit
your work without destroying your original copy. It links to Box, Dropbox, Ever-
note, and Google Drive. Draft also has a tool to make transcribing videos an
easier endeavor. Freemium. (https://draftin.com/)
Editorially (Website) is another tool with a focus on version control, allowing you
to roll back to previous version of the document. Like Draft, it has a very sim-
ple interface, so that you are focused on your writing. Formatting is done using
Markdown language, which is simple to learn. Free. (https://editorially.com/)
Google Drive (Website, iOS, Android) is a free online replacement for the Mic-
rosoft Ofce Suite. Drive includes a word processor, spreadsheets, forms, and
presentation tool. You can invite others to view and to edit your documents,
and you can make them publicly available. Freemium. (http://www.google.com/
drive/)
Scrivener (OSX, Windows, iOS) isnt quite as good at collaboration, but it earns
an honorable mention in the writing category, because it is a tool specically
designed for long-form writing, such as for novels, research papers, and screen-
writing. It is designed to support idea generation, outlining, writing, and research.
(http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php)
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Collaborate
Protect yourself and your partnership with legal agreements.
Our Deal (Website) allows you to send contracts to clients digitally, and handle
review, editing, and signing online. Mentioned in Chapter 6. (http://www.ourdeal.
com/)
Dont miss the project-planning tools in the Create and Innovate section, as all four
mentioned support collaborative project management.
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Your Denition of Success
Identify specic, relevant, meaningful goals.
Your Denition of Success
There are lots of tools and apps for tracking goalshere are a few favorites.
42goals (Website) is a popular tool, in part because its so simple. Sign in, set up
some goals, and track your daily score. Freemium. (http://www.42goals.com/)
Everest (iOS) is beautiful app designed to keep you on target toward achieving
your goals. (http://everest.com/)
Lifetick (Website) is a robust goal tracker that asks you to identify your core areas
of focus, and then set S.M.A.R.T. goals for each. Freemium. (http://lifetick.com/)
The Seinfeld Calendar or Dont Break the Chain came out of a practice Jerry
Seinfeld uses for writing. The basic idea: make sure you do writing [or your task]
every day without fail. Read more about it here: http://lifehacker.com/281626/
jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret
Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pongal.
paid.seinfeld
iOS app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dont-break-the-chain!/
id313567772
stickK (Website) uses the threat of negative reinforcement to help you achieve
your goals. Set a goal, put some money on the line, and choose a friend to
referee. If you fail to achieve your goal, stickK will donate your money to the
anti-charity you chose (a group with a mission you dont support). Achieve your
goal, and you keep your money. (https://www.stickk.com/)
The Happier and Mindbloom apps discussed in the Discover Your Roots section of
this guide are also excellent choices for dening your success.
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Share Your Story
Convince employers, clients, and partners that youre the perfect person.
Share Your Story
Learn to tell stories like Nancy Duarte.
Resonate by Nancy Duarte examines famous speeches from throughout history
and explains why they are so moving. (http://www.duarte.com/book/resonate/)
Write clearly, so that your audience understands you.
Grammar Girl ofers a guide to writing clear sentences: http://www.quickand-
dirtytips.com/education/grammar/how-to-write-clear-sentences
Increase the drama with some help from Pixar.
A series of tweets from Pixar artist Emma Coates is now referred to as Pixars
22 Rules of Storytelling, and they ofer a keen insight into why we connect
so deeply with certain stories. (http://www.fastcocreate.com/3018559/pix-
ars-22-rules-of-storytelling-visualized)
Draw before you write.
If youre a visual thinker, trying using a storyboard template to sketch out what
youd like to say before you write: http://www.printablepaper.net/category/story-
board
The mind mapping tools listed under Name Your Ingredients would be incredibly
helpful here as well.
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