Hey, this is the Daily Overpass! My name is Eric and I make apps! Now today, I want
to talk about why "client payments give you the freedom to do what you want."
Okay, so, I'm coming to you from the Oxfordshire countryside. Today, I had a
meeting with a client and it was like out and it was like he was on a farm. So,
I got to drive all the way out into these narrow one-way roads and
everything and go visit this farm. It was really nice. It was like one
of the nice things I've liked about meeting with clients is, it takes me all
over the place. It could be in the city, it could be in London or
one of the big - Oxford, one of the big cities. Or it could be like an
industrial park out someplace. It could be somebody's house, it could be like out
in the middle of nowhere and it's so much nicer meeting with clients in
person than it is like over the phone. The only - you know, because you
get a hash out a lot more things, you get to scribble things down on paper,
and also, you have that personal touch and everything. The kind of thing
that you can't do with outsourcing. It just gives you that -
that whatever, right? And the only thing it costs you is gas, is a bit of
petrol, is to fill up the tank and head out on the go. So, it's really been
a nice day. Despite the fact that it's muddy and gray and drizzly today
here in England, but it's still, it's just nice to go out for a drive. The
only thing it cost me is gas, is to fill up the tank and and to go back out
again. I was reading something recently where they talked about the - it
was like a book of entrepreneur stories. And one of the the stories was
about somebody who started out their own business and as soon as they started,
they got their first - they did their first client project. When they got
that first payment, they realized how much freedom it brought them. They
realized that with that payment, that they could go for another two months
without, you know, without working or start working on the next thing until
they needed that another infusion of cash. I started thinking about
it. It's very much like when you fill up the car with gas,
every time I fill up the car gas, I have the feeling of, you know, "Oh
good. I'm good for the next 350 miles." And I start thinking what am I
gonna do with those 350 miles. That's the same thing with client
payments. It's something that- I mean, when you're working a permanent job
you don't think about it. You know that on a certain date, a certain amount of
money is gonna come in and you know how much it's gonna be. And you just
squander. You take out loans, you make payments on things, you
spend - you spend and maybe save a little bit. When you're on your
own, you try to save as much as you can. You're always - you always know when
you're like working for yourself how much freedom you have left. How much time
before you have to really start working on it. The nice thing about the apps and
passive income is that it's always coming in. I know how long I can survive off
that. But when you get those regular infusions of client payments, when you do
a bit of client work, then you know you can invest that back into your company
and do some more work on it. It's very liberating
and it's fun to think about the potential of it even though you know
that - you know, a lot of the times the reality is that you're gonna squander it,
you know, we should've squander the the car full of gas on going
back and forth to the shop or going to the office or whatever, and not taking
the big trip that you could do. The same with the big payment. You try to -
it's very easy to squander those and let those get away from you.
But it's one of the - I'm always going back and forth - am
I just gonna work on passive stuff, I'm gonna work on the passive income or
stop working with clients? Or should I just focus on client stuff? And it's - I
like both. I love the passive income, but it's hard to build. But the
client work is really great especially because it buys you a little bit of
freedom to do the stuff that you want to do. Anyway, those are just my thoughts for
today. You know, parked on a on a kind of a busy layby here in the mud and cars
driving by. Anyway, let me know what you, guys, think. Do you work for yourself?
Is this the kind of feeling that you have? Or are you somebody who's
just completely sworn off client work all together. Anyway, that's it for today!
I'll talk to you, guys, tomorrow.