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7 April 29, 2017 Blog Business

Going the Extra Mile + March & April Link Love

Yesterday I was listening to an episode of the Swedish lifestyle business podcast Josefin & Vanja, where they talked about “going the extra mile”. So many of us sit on awesome ideas for blogs and businesses, and some of us take the leap and act on those ideas. One year ago, when I finally decided to dedicate myself to this blog and went from a full-time position to a 15% extra hours position at my workplace, I felt this surge of inspiration and business motivation! Like everything was possible. Of course, I still had some income on the side so I wasn’t totally dependent on my blog to be financially viable. I could do whatever I thought was fun, at a pretty comfortable pace.

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16 March 6, 2017 Freelance Monday

Freelance Monday – Blog Workation + Sneak Peak of my new Service!

Last Friday my three blog friends and colleagues Louise, Elin & Annie came out here to Ingarö for the weekend. Remember we did a blog workation earlier this winter at Annie’s summer house? Well, now it was my turn to host. Last week was quite crazy in terms of work, so I wasn’t totally up for working all weekend too. But, I needed the hang outs and closeness of my online friends that I don’t see very often irl. So I decided that I would take it super easy, cook lots of nice food for my friends and focus on having a good time.

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1 January 9, 2017 Freelance Monday

Freelance Monday + What I’m Doing To Kick-start 2017

I don’t know what has happened, but over the past days, a burden has lifted from my chest. I feel lighter and more positive than I have in months.

Perhaps that intention ceremony we did over New Years unlocked something in me. A deeper acceptance of the difficult year that has been, and trusting that I’m totally capable of making my dreams come true in the future.

To finally have the inspiration and motivation to work hard and make things happen is such a relief. I’ve been so impatient, yet it’s been such a struggle moving forward.

So it is with great excitement that I write this first Freelance Monday post of the year! First, I have a couple of thoughts on how to kick-start 2017 that I want to share with you. Further down you’ll find this weeks To Do List, as per usual.

Let’s dive in!

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0 November 28, 2016 Freelance Monday

Freelance Monday + December Dedications

Hi kids! Did you have a good weekend?

Mine was busy as heck (not something I’m gonna brag about though). Last night when I came home from my extra job, I was DONE. I was so incredibly socially overwhelmed that I couldn’t even stand to SENSE another person’s presence without almost loosing my mind. That’s how it is to be a highly sensitive introvert sometimes, when you’re not taking care of yourself or being mindful enough with where you spend your energy.

Poor Hannah got left alone in our (currently freezing) bedroom after I stormed out roaring “I NEED TO BE ALONE!!”, whereupon I collapsed in the spare bedroom and slept for 10 hours straight (waking up with my pyjama pants tangled around my neck?? *side note*).

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0 November 14, 2016 Freelance Monday

Frilansmåndag + Blogg-Workation | Freelance Monday + Blog Workation

I fredags när resten av världen tog helg så packade jag ihop dator, kamera & anteckningsbok och begav mig in till stan för att möta upp Annie (Vegokäk) och Elin (Teknifik). Vi skulle nämligen åka iväg på bloggsemester, eller “workation”!

Detta briljanta initiativ kom från Annie och det var till hennes lantställe utanför Norrtälje vi åkte. Tanken var att kombinera bloggjobb i en ny miljö med att laga massa god mat, dricka bubbel (Elin fyllde år!) och lära känna sina kollegor. Och kombinationen lantliv, kreativt jobb, mat, bubbel och vänner vill en ju såklart vara med på!

Och alltså, guuud vad skönt det är att prata av sig med människor som jobbar med samma sak som en själv! Vi kunde helt utan uppstartssträcka hoppa direkt till de samtalsämnen som intresserar oss mest just nu: egenföretagande, att tjäna pengar som bloggare, bloggdesign och annat teknikrelaterat, wordpress vs. squarespace, emaillistor och företagssamarbeten. Som bloggare, oavsett nisch, jobbar en ju oftast själv hemifrån, så att hänga med kollegor irl en hel helg känns verkligen lyxigt.

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Last Friday when the rest of the world checked out for the weekend, I packed my computer, camera and notebook and headed into town to meet up with Annie (Vegokäk) and Elin (Teknifik). We had planned to go on a blog workation to Annies summer house about 1,5h outside of Stockholm. The idea was to get some real work done on our blogs and also cook delicious food, drink sparkly wine (it was Elin’s birthday!) and bond over blog stuff. How great?! And once we started talking about work topics it was like turning on a tap and eeeeverything came out :’D

It’s such a relief to talk about struggles, goals and shared experiences with people who work with the same things as yourself. No need to explain anything beforehand, we could just skip straight to the nerdy topics: strategies and goals with our businesses, how to make money as a blogger, blog design and other technical stuff, wordpress vs. squarespace, email lists and brand collaborations.

It was also such a luxury to spend an entire weekend with colleagues irl, since most of us work alone from home all the time.

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