Comments on: Open Thread: What Motivates You?

By: Staying Motivated Through the Years | Web Site Designers

Staying Motivated Through the Years | Web Site Designers — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:09:38 +0000

[...] Open Thread: What Motivates You? [...]

By: Adrian Bornea

Adrian Bornea — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:31:23 +0000

What motivates me is not only the freedom of freelancing but also the people I met. Unfortunately, as a freelancer, is easier to skip the schedule and loose time by getting distracted by family, internet …

By: Mike Sweeney

Mike Sweeney — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:28:56 +0000

Wow people are still posting their thoughts. I’ll add my two cents worth, a piece of ancient wisdom which is very motivating to me and which says, “Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.” If I just get out of bed in the morning and do some work things will be ok. But the minute I start getting lazy is when things start going downhill.

By: Online Outsourcing

Online Outsourcing — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:46:21 +0000

Pain of my heart is the motivation for me…The insults which are kept in my mind to determine the changes on the voices which were blamed me…I like to gain the passion not the violation….this is motivating me..keep sharing.

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By: Antwon Davis

Antwon Davis — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:54:25 +0000

What motivates me is knowing that I have the creativity, the ideas, and the chops to continuously add value to other people as a freelancer. I know that as I meet more unique people and take on more clients as a freelance graphic designer and creative, I’ll not only be able to continue doing what I love most, but I’ll be able to learn and grow in the process. It’s the opportunity to create something new, to launch a new idea and challenge the process that motivates me.

By: Bhuwan

Bhuwan — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:47:04 +0000

What motivates me is making a difference in smaller companies marketing strategy and performance. With my past experience i can help smaller and medium companies achieve a more than expected result which companies like IBM get after spending millions in their marketing plan.

Nothing like clients listing to ur opinion, ideas n creative input before undertaking any creative activity. I feel making a website and other creative projects are easy to do as, given a chance, anybody with creative bend of mind and knowledge can do it. But the real issue is applying the designs to the business side which only an experienced person can understand.

Client’s marketing budget : few thousand $
your creative input : some part of few thousand $
client satisfaction n faith in ur abilities : priceless

By: JRMoreau

JRMoreau — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:17:55 +0000

Relying on my own means to make a living and better future for myself…

I don’t want to work forever, but I do want to like what I do for work. Gaining knowledge and feeling good about what I’ve built over time keeps me motivated. Hitting goal-markers too.

By: Nicole Foster

Nicole Foster — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:53:56 +0000

What motivates me as a young freelancer is the experience I get from freelancing and how it will look great to a college. I plan on sticking with freelancing for as long as I can so I can get the experience I need for getting a real, long-time job for a design firm or something like that. It helps me already jump into my career and says “Hey, I already know what I’m doing. I’ve known it since I was 12.”

Without freelancing and jumping straight into web design & development, I wouldn’t be where I am now and who I am now. Motivation brought me here and I’m not letting that go.

By: Pantelis Vratsalis

Pantelis Vratsalis — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:37:42 +0000

That’s a quite hard question Mason :)

But…being in the process of starting to work as a freelancer after 4 and a half years in the cubicle, I guess that freedom to create value for a client rather than just generating revenue is quite important to me.