When I help college and grad school applicants with their essays, I want to help them gain admission to the school or program of their choice. However, this is not at the heart of my work.
Everyone who pursues a degree does it for a reason. The heart of my work is helping clients identify that reason and then articulate it in a way that will come alive for the admission professional reading their file.
The application process is not merely a means to an end. Rather, it is an opportunity to look inward, explore your motivations and strengths, and articulate them with vividness and precision. I help my clients achieve this.
I offer essay services for applicants at all degree levels and comprehensive college counseling for undergraduate applicants. I help clients and their families with the entire process.
When I help college and grad school applicants with their essays, I want to help them gain admission to the school or program of their choice. However, this is not at the heart of my work.
Everyone who pursues a degree does it for a reason. The heart of my work is helping clients identify that reason…
✍🏽 What is your joyful productivity structure for 2024 of working your business?
To have a financially sustainable business will require you to have a sustainable time/energy management structure for you to work on your business. I'll call that your "joyful productivity structure". What does that look like for you? Comment below and share with us anything you'd like to share about your structure. Resource to help you create -- and keep integrity with -- your joyful pro structure: The 111 Formula -- Go to the BizPlan course and scroll down to the 111 Formula Module. The Weekly Plan -- Go to Joyful Pro course and scroll down to the module "Weekly Planning". The Q&A calls with me -- they start in January -- come to any Q&A call and ask for help to clarify your structure. Your monthly call with your Accountability Buddy (starting in January) is where you can revisit your structure, what you're learning about it (and about yourself), and recommit to the integrity of the structure. Besides adding your comment below, also look at some of the latest comments -- what do you appreciate about what they wrote? What can you learn from it? (If you don't see any comments below, it means you're currently logged out, or don't have access to this course.)
I'm feeling good about my productivity and sustainability when it comes to building my college counseling business, but lately I've been concerned about the sustainability of my writing career.
It is extremely draining to submit my work to publications, most often resulting in a non-response. But I want to be able to keep doing it because I will not succeed if I don't. I want to get into the habit of writing pitches or drafts of publishable pieces and then submitting them.
I'm going to try to have a dedicated weekly time for my professional writing endeavors. It would be great if I could do one submission per week. I think that will be sustainable, and something is bound to hit at some point if I submit weekly.
I could use that time for writing and/or brainstorming as well, but I also have other times where I do that. It's really the submitting that I need to cordon off to one part of the week because it will drive me nuts if I don't. In THEORY, I could be submitting one pitch or draft PER DAY, but I would burn out if I did that.
I will check out the resources linked in this post!