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The Day a Philosopher Taught Me How To Live
By Elizabeth Dawber MEMOIR A lesson in impermanence that took me almost 20 years to understand Image source: Vecteezy The smell of freshly brewed coffee and warm pastries greets me as I step inside the cafe. It's a Tuesday afternoon but every table is occupied, and a cloud of dialogue floats in the air, punctuated by the clink of cutlery. I look around, not...
My Top 10 Most Beautiful Snapshots From 2-Years Globetrotting
By Elizabeth Dawber TRAVEL + PHOTOGRAPHY Europe, Asia, and beyond. Photo by author I left the UK, my home country, in September 2021, which means I've been traveling for almost 2 years now. During this time I've visited bustling metropolises, tranquil coastal towns, and rural resorts across Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Culinary Delights & Self-Discovery in Greece
I wake to the sound of church bells ringing; it's my first clue as to where I am. I blink several times and the room comes into focus. My second and third clues present themselves in the form of high ceilings and a glass of water on...
Sometimes Happiness Means Spontaneously Crying in the Middle of the Street
By Elizabeth Dawber CULTURE On living in a world that has normalized emotional suppression Image source: Vecteezy My hands shake as I grip the scissors. I try hard to steady them, not wanting to injure myself any more than I already have today. I take a deep breath and position the blades on either side of the...
Equality & Diversity in the Creator Economy: February Call for Submissions
Equality & Diversity in the Creator Economy: February Call for Submissions The power lies in us to set the standards in the new economy. My friend Tapewa got married in 2020. Nothing notable about that; people get married all the time. But not long after, I asked her how married life was treating her. “Great,” she replied, “I’ve never had so many job opportunities.” She…
January Call For Submissions
The keyword this month is sustainability Photo by Slava Keyzman on Unsplash Happy New Year! The start of the year is always a great time to set goals. January is full of hope, inspiration, and motivation. Yet, unfortunately, it is also a time when we are most likely to fail. Lofty goals, unrealistic plans, and waning motivation can see our greatest dreams quashed in an instant. With this in mind, January’s call for submissions is all about sustainability.
Holiday Closure
Important dates for readers and writers of Start it up. Photo by Damir Spanic on Unsplash The holiday season is almost upon us, and the Start it up team are planning on taking an end-of-year break. We’ve already been receiving inquiries from readers and writers regarding our publication schedule over the holiday period, so we’d thought we’d put all the details you need in one place so you can plan your writing and reading schedules accordingly over the next couple of weeks.
Call For Submissions: End of Year Workload and Future Goals
Call For Submissions: End of Year Workload and Future Goals We want to hear how you’re managing your workload in the run-up to the holidays, and what goals you’re setting for yourself in 2022. Photo by Bruno Bueno from Pexels Speaking to my creator friends on and off the platform over the last few weeks, an interesting pattern seems to have emerged; everyone is…
Important Updates to Our Submission Guidelines - November 2021
Plus extra tips and tricks to help you get published with us This article should be read in conjunction with our standard submission guidelines which can be found here. Over the last 7 months, we’ve been working hard to rebrand our publication to suit the new creator economy and support the many individuals that choose to join it every single day. In this time, we’ve been closely monitoring engagement to help us better understand what it is our readers like and want to read more of.
Submission Call: Why Do You Write?
9 writing prompts to inspire you to put pen to paper and share with us the importance of writing in your life. Photo by BP Miller on Unsplash Following the results of the Medium Writers Challenge last week, understandably, a lot of writers are feeling disheartened at not having won. When we put our hearts and souls into our work and pin our hopes on a favorable outcome, it feels like a fatal blow when we don’t get the recognition we feel we deserve.
Call for Submissions: August 2021
What the Start it up team would love to read this month Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash With the Medium Writers Challenge closing imminently, we thought we’d give you something else to focus on as we all wait (im)patiently for the results to be revealed. So, we’ve come up with a flash call for submissions which we’ll run until the end of August, and we’d love you to take part.
Call for Submissions
What the Start it up team would love to read and publish in June Photo by Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels Thank you to everyone who took part in May’s call for submissions writing challenge. Due to how popular it was and all the amazing articles and feedback we received, we’re happy to announce a new call for submissions that will run from now until the end of June. If you took part in our last challenge, you’ll know we were very specific about the topics and angles we were looking for.
Call for Submissions
A fun writing challenge for new and existing contributors Photo by Elena Koycheva on Unsplash It’s been just over two months since our rebrand from The Startup to Start it up, in our move away from big business, tech, and leadership-focused pieces and more towards helping individual creators get better at building their thing. We’ve been overwhelmed by the support from our readers, and all the amazing articles we continue to receive every single day.
A Day in the Life of an Editor
Behind the scenes at Start it up HQ — See how the editing process works and get some unique insider tips Photo by Mateus Campos Felipe on Unsplash As part of our rebrand from The Startup to Start it up we’re on a mission to be a more transparent and relational publication.
The Day I Stopped Being an Employee and Followed My Passion
How to capitalize on creativity in the passion economy “Aren’t you worried?” My friend said, wide-eyed and open-mouthed. I’d received the same response from everyone I’d spoken to since losing my coveted job at London’s top university days before, right in the middle of the pandemic. In truth, I felt liberated. I’d been an employee of one company or another since I was fifteen years old.
Leaving a 9-5 to Work for Yourself? Drop the Employee Mindset
You’ve done it — you got out of the rat race. No more 9 to 5, long commutes, making small talk with colleagues you don’t like. Breath a sigh of relief that pointless meetings, queuing for the photocopier, and cranked up air-con are a thing of the past. You’ve been dreaming about working for yourself for years; the freedom, fortune, and flexibility to be who you want to be.
How To Become a Vegetarian When You Love Meat
Image Credit: julief514. I love meat yet in May 2020, I began a transition period to go from meat-eater to vegetarian. Within a few months, I was fully vegetarian with no cravings for meat at all. If you’ve eaten meat your whole life as I have, then you’d be forgiven for thinking that it’s really hard to give up. You don’t just wake up one day and cut something out of your diet that you love, because that takes an inordinate amount of willpower.
20 Pieces of Advice from 2020
Well. This has felt less like a year in measurable increments and more like a series of grim revelations, folding endlessly into each other like a giant, ominous wave. 2020 is technically over, but it feels like we’re still waiting for the wave to break. Waiting for closure, or something. This is my fourth January making and sharing a list of what I learned in the previous year.
4 Sexual Traits Found In Long-Term Successful Relationships
11.30 pm is when most couples typically have sex. However, both men's and women’s testosterone levels are at their lowest at this time making it unlikely that couples actually choose this time for any other reason than pure convenience. Recall the start of any relationship and chances are you had sex morning, noon, and night. You made sex a priority. Over time, it became less of a priority and that is why it ended up as the last thing on your ‘to-do’ list just befall falling asleep.
5 Money Moves You Should Make Now if You Are Stressed About Money
The pandemic has forced folks to reevaluate the way they manage their money. It’s nearly the end of another year — a life-changing, stressful, faith-testing hell of a year. For so many, a lot of that stress has manifested because of money, like having to decide whether or not you should pay the water bill or put a hot meal on the table for your kids. Maybe you lost your job. Perhaps you had to cut hours to spend more time with your children as they start virtual learning.
The Love Diet: How To Identify Healthy and Unhealthy Love
Home / Featured Content / The Love Diet: How To Identify Healthy and Unhealthy Love Unhealthy versions of love are often romanticized by the mass media so it’s no wonder we find ourselves in dysfunctional relationships thinking they are normal. Take The Notebook, one of the most famous romantic movies of all time. “So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard. We’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you.
The 7 Habits of a Highly Inefficient Startup Founder
1. Starting with a solution rather than a problem. In July 2016, I started a new business but less than 6 months later it had failed. Looking back, I see that the biggest hindrance to my success was the fact that there was no market need for my product but I loved the business idea so much nothing was going to deter me from doing it. Interestingly, 42% of startup founders cite not finding a market for their product as the biggest reason why their startup failed.
Social Media Microblogging: How to Communicate More Effectively?
Four simple tips to spice up your microblogging strategy Photo by Brooke Cagle on Unsplash Have you ever created a Tweet describing a cool chart? Have you ever created an Instagram post describing a fun moment with your friends? Or perhaps you are a LinkedIn user who likes sharing product updates about your startup. All of those small content snippets classify as microblogging.
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