I know I was random only a few days ago, but I’m being random again today. Because I can! Randoms 18 Tuesday this week was the Tuesdayist Tuesday in a long time. It was far from a bad day but it was beyond generic. I quit a business membership community this […]
Author: Vanessa Smith
The Wasting Time Movement
Most people probably know that I’m a bit cranky when the word hustle gets mentioned. I am so very over the be “on” 24/7 and work yourself to death and how dare you enjoy a TV show attitude that exists online. Especially if you dare to consume any content even vaguely related to The […]
Episode 2 – Self Publishing
The NormalNess Podcast – Episode 2 – Self Publishing I wanted to talk about why I chose to publish 4 books at once earlier this year. And the short answer is, I wanted to. The longer answer is that I don’t like doing only one thing at once, I resent social expectations of […]
Episode 1 – Discrimination
The NormalNess Podcast – Episode 1 – Discrimination I started this podcast on a complete whim – I recorded this episode (safely, hands free and legally) in my car, driving home from work one day. I had seen a post that implied it’s ok to fire people who were sick. And I was […]
Randoms 17
CW: Plane crashes. (Yes, I do blog about a weird range of stuff.) Randoms 17 Planes & Insurance When I was doing all my insurancey stuff the other year, I noticed a lot of exclusions in PDS’s for private air travel. (Eg they don’t pay out your life insurance if you die […]
The ProBlogger Conference Session I Listen To The Most
Personally, the ProBlogger conference session I listen to the most is from my first #pbevent in 2013. It’s called The Step Change. It featured Caz from y travel blog, Christina from Hair Romance and Andrea from Fox In Flats. It was great to hear this session in person and to listen to afterwards. Last week I […]
Randoms 16
Up, down, shake it all around. That feels like recent weeks for me. Randoms 16 It turns out that getting home and experiencing extreme muscular fatigue has a reason! Sarcastic yay for another deficiency being discovered. Vitamin D. I guess those lunchtime walks I used to take until I was injured in […]
Keep Publishing Blog Posts
Did you go to ProBlogger in recent years? Or another conference? Did you stalk it online? There’s one important message I have for you. Keep publishing blog posts. It’s so easy to have ALL THE IDEAS and a lot of overwhelm after a conference. Struggling with too information? Read more here. […]
How Important Is Comfort To You?
In this “day and age” of overzealous hustle (read my rants on it here and here), enjoying your comfort zone might as well be akin to deliberately hugging a newborn baby if you’re typhoid Mary. How Important Is Comfort To You? Comfort is really important to me. I can’t create from a position […]
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Why Do I Think I Don’t Fit In The Business World?
I have a “thing” where I don’t feel like I fit into any sort of business, freelance or “start up” world. Why Do I Think I Don’t Fit In The Business World? And I know the reason. It’s because I have a day job. I’ve written about how I don’t want to […]