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Alternate ways of work (#92)

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Get weekday encouragement and weekend inspiration with Tanya Moushi, a six-figure solopreneur with over a decade of experience in the digital world. She is the author of Love is the Business Plan, an advisor for 6-cities in the USA, and a big-time advocate for Good Business. Through her writing, Tanya shares her own journey of building a portfolio of business as a mid-thirties woman, and provides emotional support and encouragement to entrepreneurs with the mission of inspiring them to create more values-driven business.

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It's been a couple weeks since I've put my ass in a seat to do some focused writing.

The combination of moving after 7 years in the same apartment, personal life adventures, and tight project deadlines before the start of summer have been a lot––but in a good way.

It's true what they say about change: when staying the same becomes more uncomfortable than comfortable, that's when change happens.

This is also how I think about my work life.

The Vastly Different Ways of Making Money

If you've been in the same line of work for many years, it's easy to forget that there are alternate ways of making a living. So this week, I want to showcase a few different professions to stir up the status quo (all real people I've met in recent years).

A few alternate ways of working

  • A web designer who organizes her client projects around her menstrual cycle.
  • A 60-year old lawyer who works 2PM to Midnight because he prefers sleeping in.
  • A corporate finance employee who works 3x12s: Mon, Tues, Weds.
  • An artist who made their entire career off one 52-minute album.
  • An investor who works 80+ hours a week digging for deals.
  • A business owner whose 4 assistants run his 3 million dollar company.
  • A software engineer turned small-scale real estate manager.
  • A philosophy professor who runs 4 live cohorts a year.
  • A former executive who teaches corporate employees how to write books on the side.

Now it's quite the privileged position to say "work whenever and however you want" and the fact is most people don't start with that option. But I know tons of people who have created that option over time.

They've designed their work little by little with the maturity and knowledge that the aim is not not working, but spending time doing work they want to do.

And it's hard at first.

But so is everything else worth doing.

CHALLENGE OF THE WEEK

Design Your Ideal Day

Instead of simply accepting your current work life as matter-of-fact, think about how you want it to be in an ideal world. What would an average day look like? Would you work in Seasons? With people or independently? What specifically would you be doing each day?

I do this at least once a year but sometimes more because we're always evolving. And we can be grateful and grow at the same time.

📈 Behind the Business: Measuring Instinctive Strengths

I recently took an assessment that measures your conative thinking, the doing aspect of your brain, called the Kolbe Index.

I was skeptical at first because it's easy to get bogged down by all these assessments and I'm not a big fan of being boxed into anything, but what attracted me was the fact that 92% of people who had taken the test came back with the same results 10 years later.

The founder, Kathy Kolbe, started Resources for the Gifted, whose team of educators, academics, and artists created over 100 award-winning books, games, and interactive activity kits for a new genre in educational publishing. Her father, Eldon F. Wonderlic, was an industrial psychologist at Northwestern University who helped top athletes, executives and government officials in what we might now call "High-Performance Coaching" in a capacity akin to Wendy Rhoades from Billions.

In general, we have:

  • Our Cognitive mind: thinking part of you
  • Our Affective mind: feeling part of you
  • Our Conative mind: doing part of you

And nobody really talks about the last one, but I think anything that helps you own your strengths and unique way of doing things is quite the good thing.

The test is $55, but I'm giving one away for free. Apply here.

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Tanya Moushi ("moo-shee"),
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Designing Good Business

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Daily Inspire

Get weekday encouragement and weekend inspiration with Tanya Moushi, a six-figure solopreneur with over a decade of experience in the digital world. She is the author of Love is the Business Plan, an advisor for 6-cities in the USA, and a big-time advocate for Good Business. Through her writing, Tanya shares her own journey of building a portfolio of business as a mid-thirties woman, and provides emotional support and encouragement to entrepreneurs with the mission of inspiring them to create more values-driven business.