Tuesday, November 30, 2010

31 Days to Start Freelancing - day 8

Continuing the exercise 31 Days to Start Freelancing
Day 1. Make an Inventory of Your Freelancing Skills
Day 2. Examine Your Freelancing Resources
Day 3. Set Your Freelancing Goals
Day 4. Get Inside Your Client’s Head
Day 5. What’s Your Story?
Day 6. Quick Check on Your Competitors


Day 7. Make Your Menu of Services

Day 8. Set Your Freelancing Rates

- Troubleshooting computer (preferably mac)
75$ per hour (because I work fast!)

- Personal Mac or Linux Training (possible installation and customization)
50$ per hour

- Wed design (training, assistance or basic setup of blog, website etc ...) 
Could really be different from one another but - if the customer wants to have assistance from start to finish - it's probably costs around 2000$ because the amount of work can span over a month (and sometime more).

Monday, November 29, 2010

Diet


After my Internet diet, I just started a real diet - but I'm not actually craving so much for food.

Here's how I'm doing it - basically after 4pm I won't eat anything until the next day's breakfast.

It has so many benefits :
  •  no dish washing required
  •  no cooking required
  •  I don't have stomach burn during the night
  •  I sleep a lot better
  •  I can't wait to get up in the morning, because I'm hungry
  •  I've lost weight after 1 week (about 1 pound)
  •  I don't have bad breath in the morning

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Internet diet

Hey I'm back ... I did this little experiment to control my use of the internet in order to see how long I could resist to the urge to "get online" !

I could stand 2 weeks, but then I had to come back ; it's actually funny how many things you can do if you're not connected and constantly jumping from one thing to another ... like exercising, meeting real people, going outside.

The hardest part was the lack of mail and chat.

Interesting video about Failure
Failure is an indication of progress