No You Can’t

Stop Trying to Copy Another Freelancer’s Success

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Aspiring freelancers are inundated with stories trumpeting incredible success.

• $100,000 eBook Sales in 8 Months
• 10 Digital Products You Can Create and Sell in 24 Hours
• My Blog Gets Over 120,000 Visits Per Month
• How to Get 10,000+ Eyeballs to Your Blog in 72 Hours
• I Made Over $500,000 Writing On the Internet

These are actual titles taken from my Medium homepage stream. So why aren’t all of us multimillionaires yet?

Making a Living at Freelance Writing — Here’s How I Do It

So why aren’t all of us multimillionaires yet?

I’m not branding these successful freelancers as fakers — I congratulate them on their success. In fact, I read four out of the five articles (you can guess which one I skipped).

My intention is to help freelancers succeed, not hold up impossible goals and dash their hopes. Let’s face it; these articles are written by the less than 1% of freelancers who “win big” at something. What are your…