It is never easy for freelancers to succeed, for the simple reason
that the nature of freelancer jobs is very insecure. Web Freelancers usually
find it difficult to establish a benchmark, and that’s where they falter,
unable to motivate themselves and push for major achievements, as they
should. This is a very crucial aspect,
because many of these new entrants into the freelancing jobs field - quit, as
they find the road to success leading nowhere. How will you succeed, when you
don’t set goals for yourself? But before that you should try and figure out
what will eventually make you establish goals.
Fear of failure helps
you to build goals
When I first entered the freelancing jobs field, I was quite
excited. I was eager to make a mark, and made sure that I was committed to my
task. Since, I was new, I was not aware of the intricacies of the trade, and
that eventually led to all sorts of trouble. Some of my assignments got
rejected, and that’s where fear of failure crept in. These sequences take place
with every web freelancer in the beginning.
You come across a phase, where you doubt your abilities and
that hinders your progress towards your goals of major achievements. Your
thoughts dwell on whether you should undertake new work, or probably, quit. You
are not sure if the next assignments online will be accepted or rejected. Fear
of failure can be compared to a chronic disease, because it doesn’t die that
easily. It stays on your mind, and destroys your ability to work with any kind
of freedom. And, if you don’t work with certain degree of freedom, you will not
be able to put your best foot forward.
Successful freelancers are those who try and learn the
factors that have led fears to creep inside their head. Fear of failure is
imminent, and every individual may have their own reasons for it, but it is
important to find and fix reasons. And the best way to quench fear is to build
goals. Your goals should revolve around your efforts to eliminate your fears of
failure. By trying to eliminate the fear of failure, you are also gearing up to
face rejection with a positive frame of mind.
Turn rejection into
an asset
Some try and run away from rejection, and if you are one of
them, then I am afraid, you have chosen the wrong profession. The more you run
away from being rejected it is less likely that you will overcome your fears of
failure. The most successful freelancers are those who have been rejected a
lot. Their work has been thrown away by clients. Many of their contracts have
never been renewed. They have also received a high number of negative feedback, but then you might wonder, what has made them successful - it’s
their ability to learn from rejections.
Online study has shown that rejection can open a floodgate
of learning opportunities. If you believe that you can become a successful
freelancer, learn to get rejected. Accept rejection and also learn about the factors
that lead to rejection. Once you do that, jot down a plan to tackle those
factors. The key is not to repeat factors that failed you. Rejection should be
used as a learning tool, and as a stepping stone, so that you correct yourself,
and plug the loopholes, and that’s how you turn it into an asset. Though,
rejection never stop for a freelancer, no matter how good he is, but the onus
lies on him on how he takes rejection in his strides, and overcome it.
How correction leads
to success
The benefits of correction are not just limited to educating
oneself on what he should avoid, or what he should inculcate. But it also makes
you more confident. You, as a web freelancer, know exactly what mistakes you
had committed earlier, and how you have corrected them. The correction path had
made you realize that you now have better skills and right framework of mind,
which you did lack earlier.
You also begin to work with greater freedom, which is again,
a prerequisite for freelancing jobs success. The correction path eventually
leads to psychological boost. However, to make the whole process effective,
freelancers should learn to keep their focus intact. With better focus, it is
much easier to pick the roots of failure, and just as a surgeon does, you
should also outline the problem, and remove it from your system.
Remember, it takes guts and courage to admit that ‘I was wrong,
or I have failed’. The ego can make you stubborn, and you may simply refuse to budge
and accept any sort of rejection. Think about it. How did you react the last
time, when you failed to impress your client and your work was ultimately
rejected? Did you felt insulted and decided never to work for that particular
client again, or you took rejection as your mistake, and decided to find what
went wrong, and rectify it.
Continue accepting rejection
and persist with corrective measures
Online study indicates that correction is not a onetime process;
it is a never ending effort, exactly as rejection is. You might have corrected
some of your past mistakes, but still, you are likely to commit more mistakes,
which you probably never committed in the past. The beauty of online freelancing is that it is unpredictable, and even the clients are unpredictable. You will
come across many clients from across the spectrum. You just don’t know how a
particular client will react, and that leads to a possibility that you might
confront a situation, where various clients reject you for different reasons.
And, therefore, you need to continue to believe that there’s
always a scope for improvement. Rejection by clients makes you more
experienced, and you can use your experience and abstain from committing the
same set of mistakes that you had committed in the past in completing
assignments online. However, just because you are experienced, it doesn’t mean
that you are perfect. No one can take things for granted in the freelancing jobs
world just on the basis of past achievements.
Mistakes are bound to occur. Successful freelancers are
those who have perfected the art of accepting failures and rejections, and
finding ways to overcome their fears of failure, and that’s where the road to
success begins.
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