7. Unified Personal & Work Lives

Our intentions are projected through our work and our work affects our personal lives. Manage this tension well and we maximize the personal and professional benefits. The resources below are specifically curated to help you manage this tension well.

Our work quickly becomes a burden when it’s no longer enjoyable or lacks meaning. When we’re drained it affects our health, family, and friends. To sustain our vocation over the long haul, we need to easily adapt, and communicate with those we care about while also resting and living a healthy life. It’s not easy to bring our personal and professional lives together, but it’s well worth it. Is freelancing driving you towards or away from your values and goals?

Get the Book >> Path Of The Freelancer: Behind these covers, Jason unveils a blueprint and shares personal stories to help guide and equip other freelancers in their difficult but rewarding journey.
Download Achievement PDF: Unified Personal & Work Lives: Download the official graphic for the seventh achievement in the Path Of The Freelancer book. Quickly explore the four checkpoints of this achievement.

Checkpoint 1 - Responsive Personal Budget

Resources

Execute Without Drama: This is a mini-book. Runs about 30+ pages and gives you an overview of practical ways to use metrics.

Checkpoint 2 - We Bring Family (Or Friends) Along

Resources

Jessica Kim: Lessons from a Start-Up Mentality: When Jessica Kim was in college, she started her first business out of her dorm room. As a business-minded anthropologist, she shares what can be learned about having great ideas, loving people well and how truly caring can make solutions that create better lives.
The day Jenny quit my company. (Or how to build a business and not get divorced): "No one tells you how consuming and damaging a business can be to your marriage. The problem is that it starts to dominate every conversation you have. Instead of just telling Jenny about my day, I was at home, sharing that day with her. She became the person I bounced every idea off of. She became my brainstorm partner. She became my coworker. She became my business partner."

Checkpoint 3 - Active Rhythms Of Rest & Release

Resources

Rules of Productivity Presentation: How do we get more work done? It is a question that every manager and every passionate worker faces. Yet, for the most part, teams operate on gut instinct and habit. The results are less than optimal.
Observing the Sabbath: Are Christians really supposed to keep the Sabbath, or is that just an Old Testament idea with no meaning in our world today? If we did, what would be the effect on our families, our health, our consumption and our world? Matthew Sleeth helps us imagine what role the Sabbath might play in a restored life in the twenty-first century.
Fallout 4: Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Skyrim, welcomes you to the world of Fallout 4. Winner of more than 50 Game of the Year awards, including the BAFTA Games Awards and the D.I.C.E. Awards. Fallout 4 is the the next generation of open-world gaming. As the sole survivor of Vault 111, you enter a world destroyed by nuclear war. Only you can determine the fate of the Wasteland.
Exodus 20:8: "Remember to observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy."

Checkpoint 4 - Live A Healthier Life

Evernote: Remember Everything. Inspiration strikes anywhere. Evernote lets you capture, nurture, and share your ideas across any device.
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Alambre': Alambre is a popular Mexican dish consisting of grilled beef topped with chopped bacon, bell peppers, onions, cheese, salsa and avocado. It is usually served with freshly made corn or flour tortillas. Alambres are popular in many parts of Mexico, especially in Mexico City, Oaxaca, and among Mexican-American populations across the United States. Photo by eperales.
Zombies, Run: Zombies, Run! is an ultra-immersive running game and audio adventure, co-created with award-winning novelist Naomi Alderman. Every run becomes a mission where you’re the hero, with our immersive audio drama putting you at the centre of your very own zombie adventure story. While you run to the perfect mix of heart-pumping audio drama and pulse-pounding songs from your own playlist, you’ll collect supplies to grow your base back home.
Psalms 139:13-14: "You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it."