What are you doing to push your freelancing career to the next level? Are you happy with where you are today? Do you have goals to become more tomorrow?

People often wonder why things never seem to go their way. You might be feeling bad for yourself that nobody has asked you to complete a project for them today, you might be quietly complaining to yourself about the low rates you’re receiving for your work, or you might be frustrated by your lack of a portfolio…but none of that matters.

It doesn’t matter how bad you feel about your situation right now, all that matters is where you’ll be tomorrow. Unless you’re starving and sleeping in a field, you’ve got no reason to complain - there’s a lot of potential out there, all you need to do is grab hold of it.

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always got.

Have you been marketing yourself like crazy? Have you been bidding for jobs? Have you been trying to create multiple streams of income? Have you been reading and studying to improve your work?

If you haven’t been pushing your visibility and services to the next level, then there’s no reason why the next level will ever come to you.

There are a number of things that can boost your productivity as a writer, but the most important aspect of it (at least in my mind) is to boost the demand for your services. The more work I have to do, the more work I accomplish. I have gone weeks at a time doing just enough to get by with plenty of free time left over…it’s easy to do. Until you make the choice to push yourself out of mediocrity, you won’t become anything other than average.

What are some things that you’ve been doing to grow your career? What are some excuses you’ve used in the past to stay where you were? How did you snap out of it?

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