Ahh, the age old question; quality or quantity… Obviously we’re talking about creating online content in this context. What should we do, churn something out every day? Or are we better to focus our entire week/month on one item? Personally, I am focussing on a high quantity of material (YouTube and written articles). That said, […]
I find my self taking a lot of notes at the moment, whether that be while I’m listening to an audiobook or podcast, watching a Skillshare video or reading a book. My preference is to do this digitally, usually on my iPad, although I do sometime take notes by hand or even rarely on my […]
I think most people have always wanted to be creative in some way, whether it is painting, sewing, building etc. And pretty much everything I have turned my hand to over the last 20 years has not worked out that well (but not to say it has been atrocious either). But I think I communicate […]
For the last couple of weeks, I have been posting my articles and videos manually to social media. While not the end of the world, I was really looking for a system that could automate this for me, and buy me back some time. That’s when I stumbled across Buffer. Buffer is a web based […]
Tonight was the night I needed to get some video editing done. Luckily it wasn’t anything too hectic today, it was just my Weekly Quote Drop videos, so only 50-60seconds long with a photo overlay. But after not doing any editing for a couple of days, it really took me a little while to get […]
Time, it’s never on our side is it? It either flies by, or it drags, we either need more, or we’re bored. With the joys of trying to run two YouTube channels, writing, still tweaking a website, and learning on top of a 40+ hrs per week job and family life, I definitely feel that […]
When I first started looking at productivity in more detail, and looking for books to read (or in my case listen to), the one that kept on popping up was Atomic habits by James Clear. So I downloaded it on my phone, plugged in my headphones and picked up my pencil to make some notes. […]
The following quote from Austin Kleon has become a real point of inspiration for me. It’s not longer enough to create content, we need to document our journey to entertain and guide people along the way. When a painter talks about her “work,” she could be talking about two different things: There’s the artwork, the […]
Over the last couple fo months, I’ve been putting a lot of time and effort into developing myself personally. This has included reading, listening to podcasts and taking in a number of online courses, predominantly on Skillshare. So what is Skillshare I hear you ask, well, in their words: Skillshare is an online learning community […]
Hi guys, Welcome to markrance.co.uk, and thanks for taking the time to read my first blog! If we go back about a year (nearly to the day), the UK entered a national lockdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Pretty much no one anticipated the effect the virus would have on the world. We found ourselves […]