So.. this is my first day as a freelancer (and first workday as newly-wed)… and there’s a lot to be taken care of. As I have previously written on this blog, Thomas has given me a lot of freelancing books on how to manage everything. I am currently looking into deploying a good workethic working at home.
So the first steps will be:
- No checking email except for lunch and after work
- using productivity tools to actually keep in mind what I should be doing (The last thing I do when the workday is over is that I set new to-do’s for the day after
- no IM or Skype unless necessary
- no naps ( even though I love a good mid-morning nap)
I have an idea that this is going to be a freelance blog for a while now =) anyway, I hope you like my considerations
So – at this point there is 2 days until I become mrs. Thomas Kristiansen – meaning that I no longer only will be “Henriette Weber Andersen” – but my new full name will be “Henriette Weber Andersen Kristiansen”.
So far I haven’t really taken the big jump into using Kristiansen as my main surname – and I haven’t really used Andersen recently – so these days I am just using Henriette Weber… which I have always liked.
But I am worried that I will loose a part of myself or become someone else when I take on Kristiansen. Which is quite ridiculous..
But what if my selfperception change because my name changes?… I am sure that Kristiansen is an addition to my personality and not a subtraction at all.
I mean if you have 3 surnames you really have to live up to it. Speaking of changes it was my last day at my old job yesterday. I am so happy to be out of there, really it was such a limitation to my free spirit.
Today I got up at 5 and started working on heltinder.dk because I am change of the new and improved webdesign ( well as new and improved as the CMS allows)… I feel like painting again, I feel like writing all the time, I am sure this is the right path for me.
So new paths to thread for me – and boy, it’s gonna be exciting =)
Today it seems like we’re in the fight for something bigger than “just” the environment. Apparently it looks like we are the generation who is going to take on the biggest battle.
We have 4 global crisis’ going on in the world today:
1. the enviromental crisis
2. the food crisis
3. the oil crisis
4. the financial crisis
To me it might not be a coincidence that all these crisis’ are coming at the same time.
I think what the world needs now is “something” that can guide us through this all the way – and I don’t think that the leaders of every nation in the world is going to be capable of agreement.
In the danish newspaper information there has been a couple of articles lately describing the crisis in the overall global system.
One was called “the end of a supercyclus” and argues that the russian economist Nikolai Kondratiev, probably was right after all.
He argues that after 50-60 years of growth – the system needs to reinvent itself. So is there a new depression coming like in the 30s ? – could be….
On the other hand you have a more participatory environment ever ! – existing on the internet.
I am sure that we all are going to have a huge impact on this when everything comes to everything.
People that does something instead of just watching TV.
In my eyes the future looks bright – but exciting ! – and I think this is a test that all humans needs to get together and actually act upon as a whole.
I am not frightened but I think that 2008 is going to be a year of dramatic changes – in everybody’s lifes…
This blogpost has been crossposted at greengirlsglobal.com
So Thomas finally gave me my valentines day present yesterday. It was worth waiting for ( I love the idea of buying stuff for people when you see it – instead of finding something stupid for a special occasion).
I got a book called “how to be a rockstar freelancer” – now if you have followed me on my Toothless Tiger blog – you would have seen my rants about how companies shouldn’t organise themselves as companies - but as rockbands. So this book was right down my alley. And the outlook that I will begin freelancing again from june 1st, this book is a real catch ( also it is published on lulu.com -which my book (raw text finished by august 1st) also will be.
But it identifies all the different problems/episodes I have been having since I decided to start Toothless Tiger 4 years ago.
the first thing as a freelancer I take away from this book is “focus on what you can do, instead of what you can’t do”.. I think it’s highly recommendable =)
Mary Hodder whom I had the pleasure to meet at e-handelsprisen 2008 blogged in february about an article in the NY times , that would probably make a vast ammount of my female tech peers rant as well.
Enjoy and beware of the “feminisation of the internet” =)
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