Jaclyn Paul / Lena George

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  • Why do people like me? And other questions to guide my writing platform

    Psst: this post contains affiliate links because I mention a few books. Clicking on them will help support my writing but as you’ll see, I’m not exactly trying to sell anything here šŸ˜‰ As I start the new year with several writing successes under my belt, Iā€™ve been turning a question over in my mind:…

  • Business Diaries #3: Taking The ADHD Homestead Ad-Free

    At the beginning of 2019 I mentioned wanting to take The ADHD Homestead ad-free. Since then Iā€™ve done a lot of thinking about how ads fit into my business, both financially and philosophically. And Iā€™ve concluded that they donā€™t. Itā€™s easy for bloggers to think we should or even have to include ads. We donā€™t.…

  • Apps, like art, gain meaning from their audience. (So ship that beta now.)

    I released the first beta of DoTheThing.app earlier this month. It felt incomplete and far too humble to show the world, but I did it anyway. Itā€™s part of my training as a creator, something I learned way back in art school: never show your work for the first time when itā€™s already finished. Do…

  • Business Diaries #2: Actually, I want to make uneven progress

    This post is part ofĀ Business Diaries, where I document my journey to grow a business around my blogĀ The ADHD Homestead.Ā You can read the full seriesĀ here. Having just hit the midyear mark, I want to talk about managing goals as an indie. At the beginning of 2019 I listed several goals I wanted to accomplish this…

  • How I fight impostor syndrome by doing stuff I’m bad at

    A theme has emerged for my mid-30s: Iā€™m obsessed with doing stuff Iā€™m bad at. Weird, right? Iā€™ve been labeled gifted and talented for pretty much my whole life. Toward the end of high school, my mom advised me to go to college for something I was ā€œgood at.ā€ And that made sense. It seems…