Where to creatively market yourself and how to spin up new offerings.

As a freelancer, I’ve already lost clients — about 80% of my income in a matter of days. I worked in the airline industry so I was already preparing myself for the worst-case scenario. However, there’s always a bright light at the end of the tunnel, and for me, that’s creativity. Creativity is the most powerful energy coming to the surface, along with compassion.

Besides taking care of yourself and each other, now is the time to be creative.

A short tutorial on getting more traffic and never running out of ideas.

I’ve written about 150 blog posts in these two years. About ten of them attract 80% of my website visits. For those articles, I applied this one simple SEO trick.

This technique has another benefit: It allows me to find more topics to write about related to the subject at hand. This way I never run out of ideas.

Being a freelance writer, I’m free to create my own schedule each day, which usually means I work on a jumble of projects until I go to bed. I’ll cross one item off my to-do list, just to replace it with another. I’m never “done,” which often leaves me anxious, restless, and in a perpetual state of self-pity.

Now I keep an “I did” list — a running tab of daily accomplishments. By focusing on what I’ve done instead of what I haven’t, I feel more content and in control…

Quick steps to get up and running financially and creatively.

The majority of my income is made through marketing and communication work for clients. In September, this will account for about 30 hours a week. But how did I attract those clients? More importantly, how can you?

8 Simple tricks to comfort yourself and be among people.

“It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing — they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.” ― Stephen Fry

Setting up shop, creating income streams, attracting my first clients and planning.

What is it you’re good at? What can you offer the world? What sources of income can you realize? Do you know where to start? Do you have access to people who can help? Sit down for an hour and develop a game plan.