RSS feeds can be an easy way of saving time - subscribe to your favourite sites feeds and you’ll always know when they’ve been updated without having to check them individually. I’ll explain a great way of reading your feeds using the online Google Reader which ensures you read the most important articles whilst saving […]

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We all lead busy lives. Work, family life, socialising, work!
I repeat work, because for many people this is their main focus and even when they are not physically at work they are still there mentally.
At the pub, after leaving the office, what is the main topic of conversation? Work perhaps? When you get home, […]

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Think freelance. Think freedom. Think about the 1 minute commute from your bed. Think working in your pyjamas.
Think it’s perfect?
Freelancing is often related to an improved lifestyle and work-life balance. Though the opposite often occurs. In today’s 24/7, always-connected world it’s all too easy to lock yourself away and lose track of what […]

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Fancy setting a real-life goal? Something that you will be so pleased about for years to come if you actually go and do it. Could it be as daring as climbing Mount Everest or possibly building a school in Africa? How about something a little closer to home that so many people enter into, do […]

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In my last post I explained how to use the management tool Remember the Milk and how its important to write down everything you need to do. In this post I’m going to explain how you can take things further, and programme into your routine regular tasks which ensure mundane but essential stuff like cleaning […]

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Us freelancers are prone to work overload! I have phases when my mind is like the inside of a very full washing machine on at full tilt. Or I have a worry that won’t go away and I fret at it like a dog with a bone. Result? Insomnia!
That maelstrom of tossing and turning, […]

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Stressed, clients permanently on your case and a to-do list as long as the M1? It can happen to all of us, but it’s all too easy to get to the point where you literally do not know which task to do next, as each and every one is screaming “I’m a critical important task….Do […]

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Ok, so you’ve got your freedom and work for yourself but are you starting to find it’s all work and no play?
Increasingly and particularly for freelancers and contractors projects often exceed initial expectations, or the drought of the early years has instilled a ‘grab it while you can’ mentality and there is simply too much […]

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In my first post I introduced you to the web application remember the milk (RTM) and to David Allen’s GTD methodology.
In this post I will explain the most basic principle of GTD - write everything down so you don’t forget stuff - and how to do that efficiently using Remember the Milk.
I will also […]

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Part one of an interview with Steve Crouch of SRC Chartered Accountants. Steve answers questions on such things as salaries, dividends, section 660, IR35 and VAT.
Topics covered:

Limited company verses sole trader;
Taking a small salary with big dividends;
Section 660 - profit share between spouses;
Consideration to IR35;
When to register for VAT;
The two VAT schemes.

Links:

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