Actually, my guess is that even the people whose questions are — on the surface — just about the making money thing, also have some residual worries that “maybe this is gross”.

Because otherwise, you wouldn’t be asking me — someone who writes about changing your patterns and habits so you can biggify the cool thing you do.

As my father likes to say:

“Take that mental health day before it takes you.”

Of course, it didn’t feel so much like a mental health day as an “I really, really, really don’t want to get a cold” day, but these tend to be more closely related than we’d like.

And granted, any advice from my father is a tad suspect …

Item! Yes, it’s crazy. We’re doing something new today.

Obviously when a super-biggified “expert” screws up, it’s way more entertaining than when other people do. And god knows we all need someone else to slip on a banana peel once in a while or we’d never feel good about anything.

There’s a giant semi-annoying cliche in the world of people who talk about time-management and productivity stuff: we need to make better use of our time.

The experts and biggifiers love to tell us about how we all have the same twenty four hours in the day which means, apparently, that some of us (them) make better use of these hours than the rest of us (us).

It is true that sometimes I complain about being internet famous and the enormous amounts of complaints, fanmail (sometimes excessively bizarre) and general weirdness (nearly always excessively bizarre) that it generates.

But the truth is that gems like this make up for everything.

If you’re laughing at me, it’s you and the gods, baby. Because hahahahaha, I should have known I’d never be able to get out of writing some sort of FAQ.

When the fates demand a sacrifice (a FAQrifice?), you have to pony up.

Oof, I hate starting a blog post with a disclaimer but I’m going to.
Okay, this bit is for people who aren’t regular readers and don’t know me and my duck yet.
Hi! We’re usually really sweet and nice. Ask anyone.
Oh, wait. That’s not the disclaimer. HERE is the disclaimer:
Okay. I hope we all know [...]

Sometimes a really obvious decision doesn’t get made because you’re too busy focusing on how much you dislike the situation you’re in.

The way out is right there, and you ignore it.

This week I finally realized what I’ve known for six months.

Apparently — and we’ll talk some other time about why you need other people to take care of your customer support email — I missed Anti-Procrastination Day.
Apparently, as an expert on the topic who has written an entire book on Dissolving Procrastination, I could have taken the opportunity to say something smart and anti-procrastination-ish [...]