Freelance Success Blog

Practical advice and inspiration, and freelance success stories!

How Gratitude Can Make You Healthier and More Successful

gratitude makes you healthierAs we enter the 2021 holiday season, the pandemic and ongoing economic uncertainty are still with us. Most of us (maybe all) are overwhelmed by the ongoing pandemic and all of the changes to…


How Laughter Will Make You a Better Freelancer

Laughter will make you a better freelancerThere’s this cartoon of a guy being interviewed for a job. The interviewer asks him, “What were you doing in 2020? And the guy answers, “Looking for toilet paper.”…


How to Boost Your Resilience When Things Go Wrong

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Resilience can help you overcome adversity and setbacks.

Studies show that people can become more resilient at any age. Learn the 5 ingredients of personal resilience and how to add…


How More Confidence Helped Shannon Unlock Freelance Success

How Shannon builds confidenceDo you wish you could boost your confidence?

Confidence is a key ingredient in freelance success. Boost your confidence by learning how to get the clients you deserve.

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7 Ways to Boost Your Confidence as a Freelancer

ConfidenceAre you smart enough and talented enough to succeed in freelancing? If you’re like many freelancers, you’re not sure you’ve got what it takes. But you probably have a lot more going for you than…

6 Ways to Overcome Failure and Achieve Freelance Success

Learn how to turn freelance failure into freelance success.Does failure mean you’re not smart enough or don’t have what it takes to succeed as a freelancer?  That’s what many of us believe. So…


6 Tips for When You Need More Luck as a Freelancer

luckAre you lucky enough?

Successful freelancer Lindy Alexander and research on luck show that we have more control over our own luck than most of us we think we do. Learn how Lindy created her…


How to Get Back on Track with Your SMART Goal

how to achieve your SMART goalIf you’re like most people, by now you’ve fallen behind on your goals for your freelance business. Just 8% of people who set New Year’s goals achieve them, according to

Do You Feel Like an Imposter? Here’s the Cure

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Is imposter syndrome sapping your confidence?

If you feel like a fraud, and worry that soon everyone will know that you’re not good enough, you’re in good company. John Steinbeck, Jodie Foster, Sheryl Sandberg, Tom…


4 Ways to Become a More Positive Thinker

positive thinking makes freelance success easier“Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know,” says H. Jackson Brown, Jr. in Life’s Little Instruction Book, the #1 New York Times bestseller. That’s great advice for all of us.  Positive thinking…