Hey Dan here and if you are an ENFP and a freelancer, coach, or consultant or
aspiring to be one then stick around because this video is for you. Now on the
surface working for yourself in a service capacity, you know, whether that's
coaching or doing some kind of a freelance like design or writing service,
it's the perfect profession or business, whatever we want to call, it for an ENFP.
You have freedom, you're helping people you're independent,
you don't also have to manage and control lots of other people like if you
had a restaurant or a warehouse or something like that so it should be a
really good fit yet so many ENFP struggle when they start working for
themselves and then they go back to some kind of job and then after a few months
or a few weeks god I hate this I want to work for myself again then they go back
and the cycle continues I want to share some of my best tips for Ian if he is to
actually succeed when freelancing so that they can keep at it and not have to
go back to that dreaded job number one use your people skills you're good with
people so use that work that into what you're doing as it doesn't just have to
be people service so yes if you become say a coach then obviously you're using
your empathy your connection with people your intuition as a people skill
directly with the services you're providing but I II was a freelance
writer and I was also traveling so I was living all over the world not where my
clients were and I managed to use my people skills in how I did business and
in my case the way I did not have to get a little bit creative but I worked it
into my writing process so where a lot of writers might send their clients like
an intake form to survey the information about the business I would get on a call
with them I would interview them and I built that into my process so with every
client I was spending maybe an hour to five hours speaking with and that helped
deepen our relationship and it also helped me not go crazy working for
myself if I was just like reading intake forms and then writing for myself that
would not work very well with my ENFP nature and so I work people into the
business and how I did it and then that gave me more fulfillment with it and
also allowed me to my job better and ultimately get paid
more because of that number two you want to work with high-paying clients okay I
get it you're like yeah and I like people who pay well thanks for your
awesome tip but really it is a bit of a choice when you're offering a service
the kind of people you want to work with and I love my dating examples and so I'm
gonna share one here you have two types of guys really you have well you're
probably does some types of guys but - I'm gonna highlight here one is the guy
who plays it cool and every so often has a girlfriend who all the other guys are
like wow your girlfriend is amazing how did you get her and then there's the
other guys who go to the bar and just hey want to go out
hey whoa no sex they won't have sex they won't have sex until eventually someone
says yes and then they repeat the process every week or so and yes the guy
who's going around the bar hitting on everything he sees maybe he would say
yeah of course I want this amazing girlfriend who's like really intelligent
and beautiful and great to get along with but you know I got oh I gotta eat
right but the reason perhaps he's not getting that perfect girlfriend is
because she sees him across the bar hitting on everything and then decides
that's not the kind of person I want to do business with and the same thing can
happen with freelancing if you are taking desperately underpaid jobs you're
working with clients that stress you out that you don't like you're ultimately
saying no to the high paying clients because you're going to be too stressed
or too busy to actually work with those clients or the really high-paying
clients will be turned off because you're actually charging too little or
they hear from someone else like yeah this guy worked for 50 bucks or
something like that and then they're probably not going to be too keen to
work with you so believe it or not there's a very different approach to
working with more higher paid clients then just working with anyone who will
pay you and it all starts with your approach so you got to do that
differently number three if you are an ENFP I can almost guarantee that you
have a need for a variety right you need things to be exciting to be
to be different that's awesome like my whole life is built on that living in
different countries and taking on all kinds of business challenges but that is
the key you want to channel that need for variety into challenges so
challenges not chaos as a young ENFP entrepreneur I found myself often
creating chaos because I needed that excitement so I would let you know
clients get behind I'd be late on a deadline or something and then it would
be tough and then exciting and then whatever ultimately it sucked for
business so rather than trying to unconsciously obviously but
unconsciously create chaos for yourself by maybe getting overwhelmed or doing
client work late or things like that create it by taking on really
challenging projects finding clients where it's going to be tough where they
have high standards and you're going to challenge yourself and get that
excitement in a really positive way as a plan-b get your variety through
skydiving or travel or something else just not getting it from chaos with your
clients a good way to keep things running smooth and let's call this tip
number four is creating a structure and having some kind of I I would say
routine and structure are really important because ultimately when you
have some structure that actually allows you to have a lot more creativity and a
lot more freedom and I know I know as the enfps we hate being told like what
we have to do and rules and structure but trust me when you have some
structure you end up feeling a lot more free getting more done your clients are
happier they pay you more than you can go do more stuff with that money they
gave you and ultimately have more freedom so it works out it's a good way
to do it my last tip here tip number five is don't work with assholes
probably you have a pretty good sense of morality and what is right and wrong and
one of the struggles when you start off freelancing is you have different kinds
of people who come to you and you might have someone coming to you who has a
business that's really not aligned with what you believe in what you want to do
could be anything right depending on what your belief systems are I'm not
here to tell you what to believe but you have
beliefs and your morals and I think it's really important to be aligned with that
with my coaching with my training work I try to do the same thing like if someone
comes to me and they say like yeah I want to make money like selling crap to
old people who don't understand what they're doing I'm not gonna work with
them to help them do that better because it's going to kill my soul and kill my
motivation is the unities we can be unstoppable
when we are focused when we're on the right track and when we believe in what
we're doing that's so important the belief and what we're doing so if you
believe in your client and their work your ability to help them will go
through the roof if you work with assholes you're not gonna want to help
them and it's gonna be a really bad cycle so I hope you found that helpful
it's only taken me about a decade of my own trials and failures coaching a lot
of enfps a lot of freelancers and helping out coaches with their business
only about a decade of that to figure that out if you are a freelancer or
coach or you're thinking that's the route you want to go down I want to
invite you to check out my program called the free freelancer it is for
freelancers coaches consultants who want more freedom it might be location
independent if you want to travel the world and live all over the place like I
have awesome welcome but if you just want to be working from a home or spend
more time with your family in that we have lots of members who are in the
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cause freelancers to quit go back to their job or just struggle along not
earning enough money not earning nearly the money they deserve to be making if
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link and and check it out and that's about it thanks for watching if you
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videos for enfps as well as for freelancers and people who just want
more free in their life as well you're you're
still hanging out with me here I thought I made like a good point there you know
freelancing own business travel the world click the link and yet here we are
still hanging out here listen I got all day I was supposed to have a call with
one of my clients in about 20 minutes but she needed to reschedule till Monday
so I got time if you're you're here I'm here yeah yeah in a in Prague right now
country see on the map over there and it's nice it's very hot outside I've got
one coaching consultation and about an hour and a half and then I'm going to
meet my friend Simon who's a like little YouTube celebrity maybe a big YouTube
celebrity least he thinks he is gonna meet him for some wine at the square by
the church and then maybe do a bit more work I've got a busy day because I have
some friends staying with me over the weekend and you know I want to get
things ready this free freelancer this is like I'm just making this and then
I'm going to be promoting it for the next week and that's how we get the 15
or so people in the program that make up that group so there's a lot of pressure
on me to you know have people join the program because no one joins we don't
have a group and all that really not worried I think we already have five
people signed up before I've made a public just people who have known about
the program through like referrals and stuff so not too worried but I do have a
lot of work to do before my friends get into town yeah
okay you know what I said I would outlast you but this is getting
ridiculous so congrats you beat me great now before I go I do need to share aside
from you know the freedom I went for a run an hour ago I'm gonna go you know
drink some wine in the square living wherever you want all those benefits of
working for yourself are great the number one benefit working for yourself
no obligatory pants rules can argue with that
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