Entries by Ann Hawkins

Power and Choice

Are you in control of your business? How much power and choice do you have? Work Smart Not Hard Tip No. 44 in a series written for Indie Cambs It may feel that the control we have over our own destinies is being eroded so it’s a good time to remember that as independent business […]

What’s going on in your head?

“I just learned that silent reading isn’t silent for everyone. Some people hear the words in their heads as they read.” This statement sparked a deluge of “how did we not know this?” juxtaposed with “isn’t this true for everyone?” questions that revealed a hidden world of creativity going on inside some people’s heads — […]

What do you do when the world is chaotic?

When chaos seems to be the norm, how do we run our businesses? Work Smart Not Hard Tip No. 43 in a series written for Indie Cambs From AI to wars, politics, supply chains, prices, DEI issues and more, it’s easy to feel that we’re not able to influence anything very much. If you sometimes […]

Art is truth

This seems like a very controversial statement in the days when it is increasingly difficult to know what’s real and what’s fake. “If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. We must never forget that art is not a […]

Getting your pricing right

How do you work out what to charge? At a recent Work Smart Not Hard meeting a new member who had just left his corporate employment of many years to start freelancing was explaining how he used spreadsheets to work out how much time he spent on each job and what this meant about how […]