100 Days, 100 Grand: Be earning six figures as a freelancer ... 100 days from now!

business consultant action hero Gabe Rayner, for showing me where extreme self-actualisation can lead;

Ray Dalio for summarising his life’s learnings in two books;

A series of small contracts can work just as well as one big £100,000 contract.

consultant Michael Porter for making business make sense;

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Cal Newport for flow and deep work;

In business and academia: the past masters of advertising like Hopkins, Ogilvy, Sullivan, and Kennedy, and their books that taught me how to earn like a pro on the life of a poet;

Like all freelancers, I’ve had good years and bad years. 100 Days, 100 Grand is the result of noting down what led to the good years . . . and the differences that made them great.

“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.” - Peter Drucker

If you leave a week between days, be prepared to work harder to get back on track. Contractors call it the “pick-up / put-down” problem; you’ll learn how to solve it forever on Day 93.)