Comments on: How to Become a Super Confident Freelancer

By: Izzy Ginzberg

Izzy Ginzberg — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:12:40 +0000

Great post, Linda!

People need to stop trying for perfection all the time- and be fine with “good enopugh”. this is especially true online, when you can always edit your reoort, blog post, or ebook later…

Izzy

(Also… your link “about renegade writer” gives a 404 error, just so you know.)

By: Crissy

Crissy — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:04:45 +0000

This has always been my biggest problom with everything. Not feeling good enough. Part of my problom I got rid of, an emotionaly and mentaly abusive husband. But I still have to deal with this feeling even though he’s gone.

By: Maricar

Maricar — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:04:10 +0000

It’s encouraging to know that I’m not the only one having doubts about being good enough. As a beginning freelancer, I don’t have magazine clips to bolster my confidence. Instead, I try to fall back on what I do have (a couple of full-blown thesis manuscripts, which are not ‘consumer mag’ material, but I invested blood, sweat and tears, all the same). And I tell myself, in the end, the only thing I’ll really regret is not trying. So, I stubbornly plow ahead.

By: Heiddi

Heiddi — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:44:57 +0000

Hi Linda,

Thanks so much for writing this post. That is exactly what stops me. Am I good enough? I even walk around with the last page of my undergrad thesis with my professor’s comments on it. Nevermind that there’s a big fat A on there, I like reading his comments over and over again. I find them very uplifting. Another thing I like to do is to list my qualities, all the good stuff. After that I feel so much better.

By: LindaFormichelli

LindaFormichelli — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:11:49 +0000

Great advice, Rita!

By: Rita Colorito

Rita Colorito — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:03:33 +0000

Thanks for the helpful tips from that book.

I rowed crew in college (novice for two years, with a coach with a personality as bad as Bobby Knight) and our team motto was the Nietzche quote (as it is for many crew teams) “That which does not kill us makes us stronger”. So true of freelance rejections. I keep getting them and I keep plugging away. But I have my days when those rejections put me in a seriously bad mood (and I just wish I could row out my frustrations on the Potomac–but I no longer live in DC and no longer row). So I go for a walk around the block and try to give myself a pep talk. My strategy for quieting the demons: Tell them to shut up. I’ve got work to do.

By: Devon Ellington

Devon Ellington — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:44:49 +0000

Great post. We all get assailed by the Doubt Demons. We succeed by taking specific actions that help us overcome them.

Thanks!