First, Happy New Year!

I hope your first week has gone well, and that you’re feeling as positive as I am about what this year can mean for your freelance business. If you’re not though, that’s totally fine and normal (I know a lot of us had rough 2017s)…this month’s series should help turn some of that around.

So last night I was doing an interview about building a freelance writing career, and the interviewing asked how I had the confidence to step out and just go for it…“So you really just believed in yourself that much?”

I had to be honest. I didn’t.

I knew I was a decent writer, but I’d never written a white paper or a case study. I’d never signed on a client of my own or sent out a cold email about freelancing. I’d definitely never earned more than a couple hundred dollars a month. Confidence? That didn’t really come until YEARS later.

The reason I stepped out was that I believed in one thing…and that’s that my skill could potentially be valuable in the niche I decided to focus on.

I don’t credit anything…not my talent, not my grit, not my marketing…with being able to make a full-time income working part-time (with less stress) as much as I do my focus on finding a place where my skills could make a difference that would be appreciated with payment.

That’s why this month, we’re going to cover four thought exercises to help you get the most out of your skillset.

You might already have picked up on the fact that this might mean something different for your niche, and it might! So if you want to update your Foundations Workbook once you’re done, that’s probably not a bad idea. (If you’ve been here a while, that might be a little new to you, but check it out anyway!)

The questions are going to start next week so this week, I want you to search for your skillset, either in a general web search or profiles on a freelance site, and see what other people are specializing in and what they’re charging. Talk to you soon!

Megan