Self-employed creatives have a lot of stuff in common – from my early days that are now decades ago, to the creatives I work with now, a lot of this stuff stands the test of time.
I’d say if you’ve met one self-employed creative, you’ve met…
Exactly one.
Because while we share a lot in common, no two will share:
You my friend are a snowflake – I love the snow, so to me that makes you awesome 🏂❄️
It also means that one-size-fits-all learning probably doesn’t work so great for you.
If you’ve attempted a course or training program that challenged your commitment to your own success by saying “if you can’t commit X hours, this isn’t for you”, and you genuinely didn’t have that amount of time, that’s not on you.
Life and work is so intermingled that people don’t always have 10 or 6 or even 2 hours free in a week – that’s not a flaw in your commitment.
For folks who do have that time, programs and courses and structured learning is awesome.
For those who don’t but still need the learning, some trainers will find a way to get that learning to you, in a way that works in with your schedule (👇 *cough* coaching call *cough* 👇 ).
Life can be effing hard sometimes, but our businesses need to keep going. Sometimes the 3-month program is just too much right now, but we could really use the result it’s promising, and we need to find shortcuts and ways to keep the business moving when we’re running on minimum resources.
There’s almost always a way… sometimes you just gotta ask 🤜🤛
For self-employed creatives, normal business traps are easy to fall into and overcomplicate things - but they’re totally avoidable when flying solo.
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