What to Do When You Enter the Freelancing Twilight Zone
What do you do when you’re in between projects, you’re financially comfortable, and there’s no real crisis to deal with — yet you feel panic starting to set in?
It’s a revelation: You’ve entered a new phase of freelancing where you’re somewhat financially comfortable. Essentially, you’ve made it to the good place that everyone strives for, even if it’s only temporary. But even then, if you’re facing a work dry-spell, a different kind of anxiety will insert itself into your life: The anxiety of a scarcity mindset.
Scarcity mindset likes to sound the alarm when there’s no enemy at the gates, when the threat is all hypothetical (at best).
It doesn’t care that you want to be able to just rest for once, or work on things that don’t necessarily contribute to your earnings.
It’s there, and it won’t be ignored. Because the what-ifs keep whispering that everything could go wrong next month and I’ll regret not working harder at making money at some point down the line. That I’m passing up opportunities, even if they’re things I don’t enjoy, to be more stable and that would ultimately make me…
