10 Top Tips to Combat Procrastination
Posted March 18, 2011 in Inspiration, Lifestyle
Procrastination can be dangerous for a freelancing business.
If you put critical tasks off for too long you may find yourself without enough time to get them done properly. This is important because rushed work tends to be sloppy and less desirable for clients.
Procrastinating may even cause you to lose a client, or worse, your business. Yet, many of us put off necessary tasks every day without even realizing it.
In this post, I’ll tackle some of the reasons why we procrastinate and provide practical steps that you can easily follow to overcome it.
5 Ways to Always Be Highly Motivated
Posted March 10, 2011 in Inspiration, Productivity
Work for me is not work. Why? Because I love what I do. Sure, I expend effort. I’m up early, before the rest of my colleagues, creating, planning and strategizing.
Even as I prepare this article I am seated in one of a few of my favorite cafes at 7 a.m., as is my habit, writing.
I’ll be at my office around 8.30 a.m., and before I get there I will have already written yet another ‘winning’ article designed specifically to help others to reach their full potential.
How do I do it? In this post, I’ll share what motivates me. It may work for you too.
Are Your Current Freelancing Practices Too Boxed In?
Posted February 25, 2011 in Inspiration
You’re doing a great job of following all the freelancing advice you can find─to the letter!
You’re managing your time very well. You’re charging the right rate for your services. You’ve even selected a freelancing specialty.
You’re doing everything right, but something is very wrong! What it could be?
I’ll tell you what it could be. You may have allowed yourself to become so boxed in with advice that you’re failing to enjoy the freedom that drew you to freelancing in the first place.
Advice is great, but enough is enough. In this post, we’ll discuss the importance of sometimes thinking and acting outside of the box.
Are Freelancing Expectations Keeping You from Your Ultimate Success?
Posted February 17, 2011 in Inspiration, Lifestyle, News
No matter what your freelancing specialty is, I think it’s fair to say that we all entered freelancing with a certain set of expectations. Of course, your expectations were most likely different mine.
If you’ve been freelancing for any significant length of time, you probably already realize that there are some differences between your expectations before you were a freelancer and your actual experience as a freelancer. In the past, we’ve done a really good job at comparing common freelancing expectations with the reality of freelancing.
In this post, I’m going to do something different. I’m going to explain why your freelancing expectations may be keeping you from success and why you should let those old expectations go.
5 Rules for Breaking Out of Self-Imposed Life Imprisonment
Posted January 30, 2011 in Inspiration
You and I are responsible for whether we live our lives in freedom and liberty, or whether we live a life constrained by the chains of self-imposed imprisonment.
We cannot blame our parents, our education, our country our politicians or anyone else for the state we are in.
We must stand up and fight like a full grown man or woman, by taking our life in both hands, and grabbing what it has to offer us with enthusiasm, passion and resourcefulness.
But some respond, ‘But I’m not talented. I don’t have enough money. I’m not sufficiently educated. I was born on the wrong side of the tracks. I wasn’t…’
Stop! Stop! Stop!
Here are five rules that, if you follow them, will equip you to break out of your current restrictive prison into a life that is free indeed.
Freelance Marketing Inspiration from Famous Quotes
Posted January 21, 2011 in Inspiration
My computer’s monitor shuffles between motivating quotes every 15 minutes. A while ago, I found this to be quite powerful for inspiring me and getting me started on my work. However, having same old, same old quotes display on my monitor stops working after a couple of weeks, or months.
Every now and then I look around the web for new quotes to add to my personal kick in the “back” desktop wallpaper. Recently, during such a searching session I came upon two interesting, yet opposing quotes.
Both of the quotes that inspired me are from renowned men:
- Edwin Land, scientist and inventor
- Milan Kundera, Czech writer
In this post, I’ll examine the validity of these quotes and discuss how they relate to freelance marketing.
[Editor's Note: the opinions expressed here are those of the author and not the entire Freelance Folder community.]
6 Reasons Why Freelancers Need to Exercise Self-Discipline
Posted January 13, 2011 in Inspiration
There’s no doubt that freelancers need many skills that non-freelancers don’t think about. It’s not enough to simply be a good writer, a good designer, a good web developer (or whatever your specialty is). The need to have these other skills is one of the things that makes freelancing so difficult.
Many blog posts have been written about a freelancer’s need to market one’s self, the need to manage one’s financial affairs, and the need to manage your time well. But, a crucial freelancing skill, self-discipline is rarely mentioned.
In this post, I’ll explain why self-discipline is important to freelancers and provide some examples of instances when self-discipline should be used.
4 Lessons 2010 Has Taught This Freelancer
Posted January 2, 2011 in Freelance Stories, Inspiration
I’ve made about half as much money this year as I did in 2009. I certainly hope you’ve done better, but I know that plenty of us have done worse.
It’s been the Year of the Whipsaw for me. January and February were deathly silent. March through May I was busier than I’ve been in 15 years in business for myself. Things trailed off through the summer and have picked back up this autumn.
It’s also been the Year of the Assassinated Project. I can think of at least four meaty writing projects that made a splendid entrance onto my freelancing stage, then got John-Wilkes-Booth’ed before I knew it.
I haven’t taken it any more personally than in other years of assassinated projects, but it’s been more frustrating this year. That said, I feel that I’ve salvaged four lessons about freelancing from 2010:
How to Make Sure Your New Year’s Resolutions Succeed
Posted December 27, 2010 in Inspiration, Productivity
It’s that time again. The New Year is upon us and as we look back at all we set out to accomplish in the past 365 days we also look forward and begin creating resolutions and goals for the year ahead.
Unfortunately, very often our resolutions list looks very similar to last year’s. In fact, although I don’t know the exact statistics, it is likely the percentage of New Year’s resolutions that are actually achieved each year is unbearably low.
Yet, each January we try and try again to get our lives back on course in whatever direction we want to head. After enough failed resolutions, it could be enough to keep us from creating any new lists at all! However, in this post I want to challenge and encourage you to not only make your resolutions for 2011, but also discover ways to achieve your goals this year and for years to come.
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