How was your long weekend? Or, if you don’t live in the States, how was it watching all your U.S. pals enjoy the long weekend?
This was Labor Day week in the U.S., which means about half of my compatriots are running around this morning thinking it’s Wednesday, the other half think it’s Friday already, and all of us are just disoriented.
On Tuesday after the holiday, Jerod Morris outlined five totally reasonable fears that can hold us back unnecessarily. He gave advice and resources on how to address and overcome each one, so you can go forth and do epic things.
And on Wednesday, we continue our Year of Getting More Stuff Done with our September prompts. You get one for creativity and one for productivity. Both of them are fun ways to keep yourself engaged and growing.
On Copyblogger FM, I talked about giving your website some “stinky sardines” to make it more engaging. Take a listen to see (smell?) what I mean.
Jerod went in the opposite direction on the Sites podcast and warned us about “how creativity can kill a good website design.” And on The Writer Files, Kelton Reid talked with neuroscientist Michael Grybko about what makes fake news so dangerously successful, and how we can combat it.
That wraps up this short and sweet week — have a great weekend!
Chief Content Officer, Rainmaker Digital
Catch up on this week’s content
![if the thought of building your own online business around digital products and services doesn’t scare you a little bit, check your pulse]()
Are Any of These 5 Reasonable (but Wrong) Fears Holding You Back?
by Jerod Morris
![2017 Content Excellence Challenge: The September Prompts]()
2017 Content Excellence Challenge: The September Prompts
by Sonia Simone
How Creativity Can Kill a Good Website Design
by Jerod Morris
5 Stinky Sardine Secrets to Make Your Content More Fascinating
by Sonia Simone
The Best of ‘The Writer’s Brain’ Part Five: Fake News
by Kelton Reid
Reader Comments (5)
I play I mean work 😉 daily Sonia so it was business as usual 🙂 I did however jam-pack my social schedule – rare for me as I usually work in the cyber dungeon when not circling the globe, as we are in a holding pattern now – with engagements last Friday, all day Saturday and Sunday. So I had to whittle things down, focus on guest posting and getting my blog posts ready for Blogging From Paradise and doing a wee bit of social engaging.
I find myself pruning down my activities list more daily, it seems. Releasing the old and worn out to make room for the fun, new and exciting.
Hello Sonia,
Glad to hear that there was a long week off on the occasion of Labor day.
Here in India we didn’t get any work load off.
Great list of weekly article over here. Jerrod always get something very helpful to us.
Thanks for sharing these among us.
Shantanu.
Plenty of excellent content to peruse, dissect, and put into practice…I especially enjoyed the Stinky Sardines.
I find these compressed weeks are often more hectic than full weeks as everyone tries to jam more into less time!
A day off? What’s that?
It’s great to have some time off with a long weekend – but it can be tough getting back into the swing of things on Tuesday!
This article's comments are closed.