Don’t postpone that dream or idea for sometime in the future.
I was twenty. The median age was seventeen. Many of the dancers were even younger. I had wanted to explore this sport much earlier, but I was afraid of sucking through the initial stage of picking up a new hobby.
At twenty, a classmate from one of my project groups in uni helped me muster up the courage to start taking dance lessons. Even then, I felt behind. Purely because of my age. In comparison, I did start “late”. Many dancers started years earlier, sometimes as young as six, and most of the instructors were younger than I.
A few…
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As just one person, it can feel challenging to be present in many places at the same time in the glorious online landscape. Through creating a few core pieces of content, and repurposing these for different Social Media channels, post planning, batch creation, and scheduling, it can be done. I just hadn’t yet figured out how.
Drowning like a kitten that accidentally fell in the family pool and hadn’t yet learned how to swim, I scooped…
Writer, spreadsheet & tooling nerd, amateur filmmaker, personal development junkie (aren’t we all), language lover, introvert.
My name is Gracia Kleijnen, and I came here to write *aggressively chugs down a cup of coffee and slams it on the table while placing fingers back on the home row*.
Professionally, I freelance in copywriting. That implies I write a lot. And the production of streams of words does not end there.
I’m an introvert with a lively inner world. The results of taking the Myers-Briggs test yearly confirm this. Here, I retrieve past experiences, and evaluate them through the lens of the current me. …
It hasn’t in a long time and I doubt it will be of significance in the future.
I sped home, filled with joy and excitement. Today, the other kids and I were assigned to craft the most important woman in our lives something special. It was Mother’s Day, and as always, the school wouldn’t let us go home empty-handedly.
Handcrafts were my favorite primary school occupation. This year, we were making a coupon booklet. I filled out each page with a special activity the recipient of my gift could redeem. Think of coupons for a homecooked meal or a walk to the park.
Once I got to the last page, I had run out of inspiration. So…
How I went from ‘trying’ to go to therapy to ‘going’ to therapy.
“So we’re really doing this”, I thought to myself.
After some back-and-forth pacing, I took a deep breath and rang the doorbell. No answer. Maybe I was at the wrong address? I rang once more.
A calm, friendly person welcomed me in. We sat ourselves down. Then they dropped The Question.
“So. Why did you come here today?”
I had braced myself, but the Train of Tears already accelerated into fifth gear. Weeping, I looked up. They met my eyes with confirming nods. To this day, I don’t know what this nodding meant. …
At least for the time being.
A few months ago articles started popping up on Medium like fresh spring blossoms. A new load of writers had started testing the News Break Creator Program. They seemed to be over the moon because of what seemed like “easy money”. Some admitted they copy-pasted articles already written on Medium. What remained was to grow the follower and view count, and you’d earn your 1K.
Tim Denning did an elaborate analysis of News Break from the perspective of a six-figure write with six years of experience. …
Stop complaining and do the work.
I believe you can get where you want to get. That is, if you work at it regularly, with intention, over a prolonged period of time. It doesn’t necessarily need to be every waking moment of your day. Of course, you’ll get there faster when you do. At the least, there needs to be some regularity.
Think of the same number of times you’d need to hit the gym to notice a difference in your body and mind. Once per week will be a great start. Less often won’t cut it. You’ll be nothing more than a casual practitioner. You’ll…
I was looking for a mental escape.
Two years into freelancing, and it’s starting to go somewhere. The funny thing is, I had no idea I’d end up writing once again. As a matter of fact, I was trying to get away from writing.
Not too long ago I held a fulltime job as a translator and copywriter. You’d think it ain’t that bad. However, the nature of the work at this particular position was quite monotonous. Due to legacy software, around 70%+ of the time was spent copy-pasting data between systems.
When you’re at the bottom of the corporate food chain, it’s unlikely that folks higher…
Here are the exact steps I took to earn some extra cash in my sleep.
I must warn you, if you’re looking for a quick fix, this won’t be it. It got molded into its current form over time. The motivation was not to make extra bucks. That idea came much later. Nonetheless, I’ll share with you what I did to make an extra $317.97 (€265,48) on autopilot on Etsy.
Table of Contents#1 Write articles with free templates attached to them #2 Set up a Medium publication to house articles about Google Sheets #3 Add newsletter signups below each article #4 Add a lead magnet (free download) to a newsletter signup form #5 Add…
Gracia Kleijnen
Writing my way to progress. Topics: personal growth, life lessons, tooling & (failed) ventures.
