I once hired someone to work with me on a few projects but we never had the chance to actually, side-by-side work together during our tenure together. They left before that could happen – I called it the Accidental Exit. Sure we talked, discussed progress on projects and we might have been on the same project but in varying different roles, but we were never in the trenches together for a project. When they left…
Freelancing is a different beast than consulting and contracting when it comes to sales. Whereas in consulting and contracting you might have another company in front of you selling your wares and services, when you’re freelancing, it’s all on you. As a Freelancer, you need to network, you need to hustle, you need to focus your pitch and you need to practice it with anyone that will listen. You also need to get over the…
You are going to screw up, something is going to go wrong, what you are trying to accomplish will not work. You will fail. But worse than your failure, will be your inability to see that you have failed, to take the opportunity to learn from it and make yourself better next time. Celebrating failure is great, it signifies effort, endurance and commitment to keep trying. Not learning from failure ensures that you will inevitably…