What motivates you as a Freelance Writer?
No matter your career you need to be motivated to reach your goals, whatever they may be. You don’t have goals? Well, in my opinion, that is downright crazy. In order to stay motivated and to build a successful freelance writing career you need to have goals, both short and long term. Your goals will serve for motivation, which will in turn allow you to be in the best possible position to achieve future success.
What motivates you as a freelance writer? If you don’t know the answer to this question you can probably look within and around your goals. Here are three things that motivate me, and may suit you as well:
1. Success. It is nice to succeed. To me success is helping others and building relationships with new people. Of course, this may mean something different to you; and that is fine. Know what success means to you, and then build this into your goals.
2. Money. Who isn’t motivated by money? Sure, I work hard to help others but at the same time I know that this will also result in more money over the long run. If you are looking for a quick way to motivate yourself set a goal based around your income. For instance, you may want to set a goal stating that you will earn $100k in 2009. There is no denying that this will get you in gear when January 1 rolls around.
3. Keeping your career and the benefits it offers. Success and money are very important, but you should also be motivated to do your best because this will allow you to keep your career as a freelance writer. I never want to go back to a 9 – 5 job, and for this reason I am always motivated to do my best. As long as I work hard and do by best I know that my career as a freelance writer will be long and prosperous.
No matter what, you need to know what motivates you to keep ticking as a freelance writer.
