The Rundown – April 2022
Spring is finally here, and with it comes that age-old desire to clean up something that may be a little dusty, let things go that no longer serve you, and refresh things that might be slightly stale. In the resources section below, I’ve included a few blogs I’ve written over the years that will help you clear things out and start spring off right.
What I’m Reading
Books
This month I’m rereading Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi landmark work, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. “Flow” or “flow state” has become a buzzword for everyone from business consultants, to life coaches, to self-help gurus. Csikszentmihalyi investigated and defined flow as “optimal experience" that is a genuinely satisfying state of consciousness during which people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. This is a book and a concept I go back to again and again when I think about how to build Work that serves life.
“People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Other Stuff
A Gentler, Better Way to Change Minds by Arthur C. Brooks
The medical vernacular of work problems by Anna Codrea-Rado
Resources
Blogs to help you spring clean your business and life:
[Blog]: Ready to get it together?
[Blog]: Looking Back to Look Forward
[Blog]: Save Your Inbox
[Blog]: Let Go
[Free workshop]: Power to the Persona, Creating Audience Personas for Human-Centered Freelancing
[Free workshop]: Money in the New Normal
Hustlers In the News
In The Future, Freelance Workers Will Dominate Over Full-Time Employees
6 Money Making Mistakes Freelancers and the self-employed make
We have the potential to get happier (and more successful) as we get older. Here’s how
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