To be an effective freelancer, it is vitally important to continuously produce work of high quality. However, humans are not machines and the pressure of producing and performing can be hectic at times. It may resulting in the loss of attention and focus, unprofitable change in direction, or shortcuts being applied to just get the work through anyhow.

This article will show some of the ways to a relaxing stress-less freelancing lifestyle:

DEAL AT PRESENT

May be at present you have a average car, average PC and house. But don’t grieve over not being able to achieve the highest standard of life at one shot. Instead, deal with what you have, and try to do best with those, fix your target for a life of top level, but just don’t mourn over it day and night, forgetting the work in hand. Work for it with what you have, enjoy with what you have got at current day.  Don’t be too much materialistic.

REMOVE THE NON-ESSENTIALS

Try to figure out what is actually needed in your life which will benefit you in some way. If you can think of something that is not relevant, ditch it, both in your digital warehouse and materialistic possessions. This will considerably free you up from unnecessary complicity and thus will gain you a lot more free dimensions to relax a bit.

SIMPLIFY THE WORKLOAD

Think of everyday works that you don’t enjoy at all but are having to do. Once you have decided, delegate the work to someone else or find some other way around, if it costs you money, then it is also a worthy investment, as it will relieve you of some torrid mental pressure. For example, if you do not like cooking, hire a maid to do it for you. Though you will have some expenditure, but the return will be a lot more profitable.

SEE OFF SMALLER TASKS

Tasks that doesn’t require a lot of time, you should finish it then and there, do not add it to your TO-DO list. Anything that entail for 5-10 minutes of your time, just go through it and see it off.

GOALS ARE IMPORTANT

It is vitally essential that you set a goal within a definite time- frame. Do not pass month after months aimlessly. Set a target, it may be a part of some bigger target and work for it. Without a sound and achievable aim, you will go nowhere.

By following these steps, a happy and enjoyable freelance lifestyle can be lead, with more profit and client satisfaction.

This post is summarized from Lead a More Relaxing Freelance Lifestyle. Photo by Here.Vi.

This post is guest blogged by Asif Karim.

Balancing Study and Work While Maintaining fun in life:
The best & the most enrapturing fraction of our entire life is, needless to say, the teenage and the early adulthood. Everyone goes through it, everyone craves to make the most out of it, and as true as it is, this is indeed the exact and the most apposite passage to take off!

BUT, here comes the catch, a catch that lies behind a layer of almost undetectable yet omnipresent weight of significance. That is, this teen and early youth is also the time to DECIDE what is that you really want to be in life, what is that makes you satisfied. There are many open fields out there, many professions of great reverence and intrigue.

Different people are flourished through different ways of life, for which they are mostly suited, which comes naturally to them. And almost in any case, whatever the profession you decide to take up as your life’s destiny, you must become well-versed and expert at it. That itself entails the fact that you must pay enough attention to your studies in your chosen field. Cause only knowledge and good standings in academic stations will bring laurels for you once you enter into the planet of real jobs.

So, in any case, you can not really be lax at your studies and expect a solid platform is building up out of nothing. But one thing to clarify is that you actually don’t need to become a typical nerd or bookworm sort of a character, there is time for everything, besides self-study, do enjoy and relax when the opportunity arises out of situations, or when have grown hackneyed over things then take a traveling tour somewhere nice, I can bet that it will most certainly perk up your life.

Now what about that part time work you dream of so ardently? What about that extra bunch of cash that’ll make your friend circle outing more shining, that’ll able you to present your loved ones those small tokens of gift that lift up their faces ? Ya, don’t worry, if you are really smart at proceeding with your life in a certain fashion, and is able to project a clear long term vision, you can also churn out times out of your ever-constrained schedule of assignments and dating, that you will need to make those extra cash in hand. Alongside you can also keep up the higher grades in your academic venture in proper place.

For me I found the following technique most effectual:

As promise on the previous post, I am going to tell some tips of becoming a successful Freelance Blogger.

What is freelance blogger?

A writer who write blog instead of writing normal article for traditional media such as newspaper or magazine.

What is the Required Skill?

• Online Marketing - Know a bit of knowledge on SEO.
• Web Design - At least know some basis knowledge on CSS and XHTML.
• Consistency - A good habit to update blog regularly.

What is the rule and guideline to follow?

Based on our database, we realized 40% of members are student who is still studying in college and high school. Most of them are excited to earn some extra money without getting from their parents. I would say 60% of our jobs in job bank are suitable for these group of members. Some of these jobs don’t take long hours and only work on weekend. (e.g. Event Promoter, sales promoter, market research, etc…)

I seen a lot of cases whereby the student is over concentrate on their part time job and lost track on their studies. It is very sad because studies will earn you even more money in the future. To helps you guys on balancing your life in studies and work, we came out some tips for you:

Since we launched 3 months back, we received total of 13 data entry jobs posted with us. 90% of these jobs are SCAM jobs! What we did to them? REMOVED it. However, these jobs is getting actively around you. You will find it in forums, newspapers and poster around the walls.

Previously, we shared a guide on How To Tell If a Part Time Job Is a Scam and now, we come out the following guide to identify a scam data entry job.

How they set u up?

The so-called data entry outsourcing firms tell you that they provide data entry outsourcing work to firms who do not have administrative staff on hand. Most of their clients are well-known big local companies. They claim to have more work then they can handle and need data entry workers to help them with typing, word processing, data entry and data entry reviews.

The Scam is starting by

In order to process your application, this data entry outsourcing firm will require you, the applicant, to pay an application processing fee that can range from RM25 to RM250. Other scammers might tell you that the fee will cover specific data entry programs that you must use to complete the work.

Cold Hard Truth

Real data entry outsourcing firms do not charge “application fees.” According to our research, the major firms that providing data entry outsourcing work provide software free of charge or allow you to use programs that you have on hand, such as MS Word or WordPerfect.

If you are told that a processing fee or any other fee is required before you may start working, simply ask that any "fees" be subtracted from the amount you have coming. Then, they will most probably tell you that you are messing up their company accounts.