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The first and most powerful step in reopening your creative channel isn’t learning a certain skill or uncovering a hidden talent. It’s just identifying—remembering, really—one important thing: YOU ARE CREATIVE.
Chase Jarvis • Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life
While an audience is a group of unique individuals, a significant issue arises when our individual needs are overshadowed by the appeal of aggregated data, a metric tethered to one’s social status.
In this scenario, we become mere data points on millions of AI-driven newsfeeds, puppets in an entertainment game where we are both actors and audience —... See more
In this scenario, we become mere data points on millions of AI-driven newsfeeds, puppets in an entertainment game where we are both actors and audience —... See more
that you are serious about being paid, just as serious as you are about delivering the results
Aaron Mahnke • Frictionless Freelancing
Something to try the next time you’re considering a product or a service: spend a little time thinking about the motive behind it. It’s something that’s easy to skip entirely, especially when we’re busy evaluating a thing by its far more obvious and surface-level criteria. But motive is really important, and I think it can be an effective filter fo... See more
Neatnik Notes · Motive as a filter
after failing to ask for a contract to be signed, it can be easy for these clients to think less of us. Using a contract allows the client to see us for who we really are: a professional service provider.
Aaron Mahnke • Frictionless Freelancing
any time a brand new client emails me requesting an estimate on a project, I have a pre-written response that I am able to send in a matter of seconds.
Aaron Mahnke • Frictionless Freelancing
there is a huge area of blank space beside my schedule.
Aaron Mahnke • Frictionless Freelancing
Take out a piece of paper or an index card and jot down everything you would love to find in a client.