Mindset Mondays

I hope you’ve enjoyed the first few videos in the Mindset Mondays series:

• Coping with perfectionism
• Persevering when things feel hard in your business
• Nudging dormant clients

The rest of the series will be published in my weekly newsletter, so please join my mailing list if you’d like to receive them! Thanks and have a great holiday season, and I’ll be back with some new posts in 2020.

Welcome to episode three of Mindset Mondays, the series of short videos I’m doing to close out 2019 and kick off 2020. Thanks to the two subscribers (you know who you are!) who suggested the topic of reconnecting with clients you haven’t worked with in a while. Whether a client hasn’t contacted you in a while, or whether you’ve been unavailable for a chunk of time, we all end up in this situation at one time or another. In last year’s March Marketing Madness challenge group, “nudge a dormant client” was probably the most successful strategy that people in the group used: some landed large projects within a few days of the nudge.

And speaking of March Marketing Madness, I’m excited to announce that registration is now open for a series of three challenge groups that Training for translators is running in the first half of 2020. You’ll hear more about these in the coming months, but if you’re itching to get some challenge in your 2020, check out Supercharge your Second-Language Skills with Eve Bodeux (February), March Marketing Madness with me (uh…in March!) and Tackling Task Management with Dorothee Racette (May). The groups are $75 each, or all three for $150.

Anyway, on with the video!

Happy Monday! Here’s this week’s Mindset Mondays video, which is on persevering when things feel hard in your business, and knowing when to quit! I apologize that this is a bit grainy; I’ll work on the lighting for future episodes.

This time of year can be somewhat crazy for all of us, so I’ve prepared a series of YouTube videos called Mindset Mondays, to hopefully bring some sanity to your freelance game. I’ll release these in December and January, then we’ll see what happens in 2020. This first video is on coping with perfectionism: a plus/minus personality characteristic for many of us as freelancers. Check it out for three tips on concrete ways to defeat the inaction and anxiety that perfectionism can cause.