I just completed a landing page for a client in Egypt. It took a couple hours but I felt inspired so it went very well; the editing process didn’t amount to much. I sent it off for him to look over and let him know I’ll tackle and tweak tomorrow afternoon (my time) as I have a couple other commitments tomorrow morning. (He didn’t expect a result for days, so the delay tomorrow won’t be a problem for him.)
That’s$250 in the hopper. It’s the only project I did today, so I was happy to see it come my way this evening because I have plans for that $250 as soon as it gets to me. My goal is to completely pay off the remaining balance on my one credit card this month. It’s less than a thousand dollars so I’m a quarter of the way there already.
A couple people owe me money. One owes $150; another owes $200; another owes $50; the church owes me $50, too. I’ll get all that this month, so that’s $700 of the $1,000 right there, and it’s only July 2nd.
I’m loving this new-found status! Suddenly people are believing me when I mention I’m a writer. (I guess they never bothered to check out my skills before! Until a person understands that he or she needs a good writer, I’m probably the farthest thing from their mind. Unfortunately, a lot of people need a good writer and don’t know it! They think that what they learned in school is adequate. It isn’t!)
Having John Assaraf and Tippi Hedren tap me for work certainly helps. Thrilling Assaraf’s clients certainly helps. Sending out a quarterly newsletter certainly helps. Writing a blog helps.
Living my life without white-knuckling it helps! I’ve finally learned to do that, and doing so has changed things dramatically. Life is mostly fun again. It wasn’t for a very long time. Now I don’t care if I live to be 100. THAT wasn’t always the case.
Life as a Creative can be a real roller coaster ride: UP one day, down the next. I think I’m finally on a path that will keep me mostly up. It has been a long time coming. I’ve earned it! Decades of dogged determination changes the odds from “fat chance” to “grab that brass ring, girl!”
It feels good.
