Hard work fallacy that most businesses fall in — Heavy Text Warning. There’s no image used to focus. Many people think that when they’re doing only their job, they have maximized their efforts. For example, they just open a business, and when it doesn’t perform well they blame the market, the business location…etc… These people have a specific thinking…

Nothing hurts me such as seeing myself unable to be productive and do my work fast. — In the beginning, the reason was obvious. I was trying to deprive myself of sleep. But as I have experienced it several times, I can say that there’s another aspect that affects brain fog: your own eating habits. These are the inputs of getting into the brain fog. Whenever you have either a few of them or a lot of them in your schedule, you will inevitably hit a state of brain fog.

If you’re a high achiever, someone who gets his energy from acquiring more knowledge and expertise in his subject matter, you don’t need to stress about your sleep. Some days you may sleep a lot of hours because you are exhausted. Some days you may sleep a few hours, but…

The journey of working as an independent freelancer has more failures than wins. You need to acknowledge that. You will try a lot of ideas to generate money and most of them won’t work. You will try a lot of ways to deal with clients, but most of them won’t work…

Take breaks when you finish a task doesn’t work anymore — Oftentimes, we struggle to finish all tasks throughout our day. If we followed the common productivity advice and took breaks for each task we finish, we might end up spending more than 2 hours throughout the day. It’s not efficient. The non-popular advice to follow is not to take a break each time you finish a task. You might see it as tedious. You might work on your current set of tasks for hours.

Deliver your work of an elite quality. — An elite quality may mean your production quality is robust. It may mean being efficient. Whatever it is. Once you figure out exactly what elite quality means for your client, over-deliver on your process. When you over-deliver on the client’s expectations, they work for you as a marketing channel with you. They refer you to their fellows. Clients that come from referrals rarely negotiate with you.

I am overdue for my recent project. ~ 53 Days. - I didn’t have a clear scope. - I didn’t have a clear to-do list of each milestone. - I didn’t set even a reasonable deadline. It was a tough experience. I realized I have no experience in project management…

Creativity mustn’t be the first priority. Communication must be the priority instead. Imagine you write an article with a lot of jargon and a complex story structure. Some beginner writers will consider it creative. The writer has spent much time choosing these words. On the other hand, people who will read it will be pissed off. They cannot relate it to anything in their life, and thus the easiest decision they will make is to ignore it.

I hate arguing with people. I don’t like the moment I feel there were objections coming into the road. But as someone who works in the creative industry, I got to learn how to handle these objections specifically in the first meeting. First, I usually see concerns as a sign…