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10/30/2017
Episode 150: How to Build Confidence and the Right Mindset for your Freelance Business
11/13/2017
As freelance translators, we always have a lot to do and the likelihood to put things off until later is big. Some things are more likely to get postponed than others. These same things are often harder to do, such as marketing, or bigger business projects. In this episode, we talk about the 9 tips that can help you “eat that frog” or stop procrastinating important business tasks until later. These tips are based on the book “Eat That Frog” by Brian Tracy.
Important things covered in this episode:
- Reasons for procrastinating and what to do about it
- Practical steps to tackle the hard business tasks and move forward in your business.
Useful links mentioned in this episode:
- Episode 141: Creating a Practical Step-by-Step Marketing Plan for your Situation
- Quick Start Guide: 8 Steps to a Marketing Plan for Freelance Translators
- How to Make Money Fast: The 80/20 Principle for Freelance Translators
- “Eat That Frog” by Brian Tracy
The key to happiness, satisfaction and a wonderful feeling of personal power and effectiveness, is to develop the habit of eating your frog first thing every day when you start work. Fortunately, this is a learnable skill that you can get through repetition. And when you develop the habit of starting on your most important task before anything else, your success will come.
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Well it true that happiness comes from early frog eating, as well as good sleep and overall well being. It’s amazing what dealing with a big tasks can bring to your success.
I’ve implementing Tracy’s rules for years now and I must say that it works better and better the more I use it.
It did take time though, but once I put in the work, the rest followed…
Now for managing your frog tasks, may I suggest “Zenkit”, a free online tool our team created along with an article on productivity and we would love to have your feedbacks.
https://blog.zenkit.com/how-to-eat-that-frog-2c9f0765237a
Thanks for the recommendation Ros!