This post originally appeared as issue 156 of the Daily Job Hunt email. Sign up for kick-butt career hype in your inbox each morning.
Get More Sleep
You can’t chop down a tree with a dull axe.
Same with your job hunt.
Stay sharp.
Take care of your body and brain.
Eat well, move, sleep, laugh, play, and hug your kids.
Do it out of self-love. You matter.
Then, with a full tank of energy, go after a job with fervor.
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Will Starting A Blog Hurt My Rep?
No, it won’t!
If you’re afraid to start blogging because you’re worried someone will read what you wrote and think less of you….well, you might have a different problem:
Will anyone even read your blog??
Probably not, in the beginning.
So, that fear you have is just Capital R Resistance trying to keep you safely hidden, by not expressing yourself publicly.
But when you do a blogging challenge (e.g. write every day for 30 days), you’ll build your confidence, consistency, creativity, and communication. You’ll change your life.
Do it!
Here are posts and podcasts all about this:
- It All Started With Daily Blogging (7 min. podcast)
- Joe Pas on How Daily Blogging and Personal Projects Help You Win Opportunities (29 min. podcast)
- Wanna Get Hired? Reasons to Start a Blog (3 min. article)
- The Challenges and Rewards of Writing Every Day (4 min. article)
- 34 Daily Blogging Challenge Ideas (Pinterest board)
- How Daily Blogging Changed My Life (18 min. podcast)
- Try something new for 30 days (3 min. TED Talk)
Quote of the Day
“Doing just a little bit during the time we have available puts you that much further ahead than if you took no action at all.”
— Byron Pulsifer
