The message is simple; stand up, speak up and get what you want. Closed mouths don’t get fed. Plain and simple. Quiet people blend in, fall into the background and rarely get heard. Make noise. Call the potential client you’ve been putting off for the past two weeks (I’m a freelancer just like you, so I KNOW you’ve got a couple people on your “dream job” list – call them).

The video today is featuring the intro/outro which I featured yesterday as well. I’m testing things out and trying to get used to the video editing software, so my apologies if it doesn’t look right. I’ve also used my flip video for my last couple videos, so they aren’t in the HD like the previous ones have been. I’ll be switching things up a bunch until I find just the right set up. Oh, and I was holding the camera again today – I need to get back into recording in my office

Thanks for watching, and I hope you enjoy the video today. I’d love to get your feedback.

Lets sit for a minute and pretend that the advice everyone gave you was wrong. Lets pretend that the idea of “completing the big tasks first” is good for productivity. Lets just pretend for a minute, ok? What if I said that they were wrong (in my opinion)? Thats what today’s video is about.

I am not saying that it’s wrong to go through the big tasks on your to do list first, but I am saying that for some, it might be easier to knock out the smaller tasks to build up momentum and motivation to complete the final tasks. Have you tried that before? My analogy in the video was that it’s like rolling a snowball down the hill – it’ll pick up speed and also pick up more snow along the way, just like if you were to start small and get to the bigger stuff later. And have you tried rolling a snowball UP a hill? I don’t think it works out as well.

As a freelancer, I find it hard to focus sometimes and I find that I am unmotivated a LOT of the time that I know there’s a ton of things to do. So I knock out the smaller stuff first because it’s easier, and along the way I build that happiness to see check marks on my to do list. So here’s to you trying something different – it just might work out for you, I know it does for me.