Category: Links of Interest
Don’t lie to yourself
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When you get advice and say you’re going to take it, your really just setting yourself up for failure. Start being honest, even if it’s to say you’re not going to take the advice.
Take the time you need when you’re ‘cooked’
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Before you’re burnt out you get ‘cooked’. That’s the point you need to start saying no more. You need to carve out the time you need to get recharged so that you can keep going for decades.
Have a solution to the problem
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When you have a problem, don’t just push the problem along. Come up with 3 solutions.
Don’t hold on to the idea just because you had it
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Yes we do this all the time, but that doesn’t mean we always have the best ideas. Listen to your clients and hold your ideas with an open hand. Be willing to change in the face of a good idea.
Oh the thinks you can do
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Stop just thinking about the business you want, and take some action to get to the business you want. Way to many freelancers just stop dreaming about success and never execute then complain about not being successful.
Marketing isn’t sleazy
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Don’t expect to get good clients doing the work you want to do if you’re not spending time telling people what you do.
Nothing will be gained by fighting
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Sure you could argue about being called names by your client, but is it actually going to change their mind? Are you ever going to see them again? Don’t waste your time fighting with them, just be polite and move on.
What if you have a bad manager
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The only thing you can actually take care of is yourself. Give your manager weekly email updates on what you’re doing and expected deliverables. Build out a training manual and give it to your manager so they can have it for the next person joining the team.
Are you living your dream?
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When you were a kid you had all kinds of dreams for what your future was going to be like. Even as a teenager or young adult you had these dreams. Then ‘reality’ beat them out of you. That’s not how it has to be though. When you were younger you figured that it would…
So much has to go right to succeed
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Going freelance is not ‘the’ answer for everyone. All your dreams of sitting in a coffee shop daily working on only things you love are just that…dreams. Running a business takes a bunch of work outside of working on things you love and even finding those clients you love is hard.