I help marketing freelancers automate their business in ClickUp so they can reclaim their time, freedom and make MORE money! 💸
Your thoughts called: they said 'WE'RE IN CHARGE HERE'
Mindset can *make* or break youThe day I trusted my sick husband to navigate in Costa Rica during rainy season... was the day I witnessed the very real power of mindset. We had rented a car in Costa Rica for our "engage-moon" on the cheap during rainy season. After spending a few days in a treat yo'self villa for my birthday, Todd was sick (too much sun, alcohol, and low potassium) so I drove, and he navigated. An hour into the valley of potholes, we realized we'd accidentally taken the back way... in rainy season... with less than a quarter tank of gas and no gas station in sight. 🫠This is precisely the moment Todd's face started feeling numb... the symptom that scares me the most. Old me? She would have melted down. Tears, panic, the whole thing. Survival-mode me? She had nothing left but mindset. And it’s incredible how a single shift can change how you handle everything that comes next. Instead of panicking, I decided: We’re going to be okay. And we were. *Mindset is everything* when it comes to freelancing without losing your mindLike when a project is taking longer than expected… One option is to freak out, get mad, point fingers, feel overwhelmed, which only makes things take even longer. The other? Actively monitor scope, get proactive, and treat it like a CHALLENGE to find efficiencies. I'm in the middle of a project right now scoped at 13 hoursI've already hit 13, and there's more to do. 🙃 But because I tracked scope in detail from the start, I know exactly what went wrong (I didn’t account for learning a new landing page builder in HubSpot, or fighting with Kajabi’s email builder.) Without numbers, it can FEEL like things are taking too long and you're helpless really bc its not grounded in anything concrete. With the numbers, you KNOW exactly what's happening, when, and why. I'm not fussed about the extra hours but I'm also not wasting a single second either. Next time, my pricing will include the additional time—and I won't hesitate to charge it because it's justified. IMHO: mindset divides freelancers into two categoriesThose who say everything will be fine, but it's surface level... just words Those who know it’ll be okay, because they see it, so they feel it, and their actions make it so. ​Knowing your numbers is how you go deeper. ​ RBH Robyn Henke |
Robyn Henke
I help marketing freelancers automate their business in ClickUp so they can reclaim their time, freedom and make MORE money! 💸
Rejection is a real "B" with an itch Waving at someone who doesn't wave back... the worst. Posting on LinkedIn to crickets? Hold me, please. Singing songs on a stage in front of hundreds, for 1 of 5 chances to play at a massive folk festival in Ontario–and not making it? It took me a solid week to like music again. Remember that email I sent last week about sensing a client's about to fire you? Well, it happened. "Due to some shifting priorities, we are bringing on a new paid advertising...
What to do when there's nothing you can do 🥲 You have a great retainer. You don’t want to lose it. But the account has been… challenging. Not because there’s too much to do. The opposite, actually. I’ve been working with this client for—pause while I realize the one-year mark was last month and I completely missed it. 🫠And for basically the entire time, I’ve been desperately trying to crack the code of working together. One of the hardest parts about being a freelancer? You’re always on the...
Getting paid to *sit in a chair* is modern-day torture 🫠One of the weirdest parts about being your own boss... is undoing the 9-5 conditioning. My first "real job" as a uni student was in the office at the Quaker Oats factory my dad worked at. I would wear the button-up shirts and black dress pants, traipse over the aluminum walkway into the plant, and log on to my Windows 95 desktop computer every SINGLE Monday to Friday. ... And have literally NOTHING to do. This was clearly one of those...