Embarrassing Mistakes I’ve Made in My Freelance Writing Business
Think you can't come back from a huge misstep in your business? Let me easily alleviate you of any stress with some incredibly embarrassing moments from my own mistakes in my freelance writing career. We'll laugh, we'll cry, we'll cringe at all the dumb things I've done along the way...and some that worked out in my favor.
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Have you ever made a Huge mistake in your freelance writing business that you thought there's just no way I can come back from this. And you just kind of thought that, you know, there's, it's just going to ruin your business or you're going to be added to some sort of black list or, you know, you're never going to work with this client again. So let me walk you through a few mistakes that I've made in my business that are pretty embarrassing and also things that, you know, like it didn't end up as bad as I thought I'm still here. So the freelance writers still working with all these different clients that I really love. So let me kind of alleviate your anxiety a little bit here because I used to worry a ton. I used to be one of my biggest fears as someone who is a freelance writer, trying to start out was I'm going to end up making this big mistake and then no, one's going to hire me again.
Like I'll never be able to be a freelance writer and I'll never be able to, you know, have all these things, Oh, Vicky's here. Hi Vicky. And I just thought, you know, man, it's just going to be a huge mistake. Like I will be added to some sort of list where everyone hates me and it's not true. It doesn't happen. It's not real. And so I'm going to walk through, I'm going to lead up to my biggest, like to me, my one of my biggest mistakes. And I hope that this is helpful to kind of alleviate some anxiety that you've had. So one of the mistakes I've made is that I have pitched different editors at the same magazine, or I ended up pitching the wrong editor at a magazine. So I thought that I needed to pitch this person and I pitched the wrong person. And they were like, actually, you need to talk to Stephanie. Like not me. So I've pitched all the different kinds of wrong editors before I've made mistakes on putting the wrong names in their emails. Like I have sent the wrong things, the wrong people, or made mistakes in their email, or put too many emails on thing. Like I've made all these different areas in my business when it comes to magazines. So if you're ever worried about sending the wrong pitch to the wrong editor,
Or if you're ever worried about
Trying to send a pitch and you just don't know who to send it to, like, I have signed pitches to all the wrong people and I still got gays. They forward it to, they forwarded the message to the right person, or they have gotten back to me and just said like, Hey I don't think this is a fit for us, but next time, it's this other person. So if you're worried about pitching the wrong person, it's okay. Even if you write their name wrong or spell it wrong, like that's, you know, obviously not cool, but it's a mistake. We're humans, we make mistakes. So that's one of my first ones. My first one is I have, I have pitched the wrong people in magazine. Number two, I have pitched the wrong pitch to the wrong magazine, meaning that I had a pitch for one magazine with the name in it.
And I pitched it to a different magazine. So instead of correcting my pitch, right, I, you send pitches to different magazines and you know, sometimes you're sending a pitch to multiple different magazines, writes the same pitch, but you're kind of tweaking it a little bit. So instead of changing the magazine name, I kept it the same, still changed the pitch and set up. So they got a pitch that obviously they then knew was already pitched to another magazine. So if you ever feel like you are going to make huge misstep by doing that that I've done it before, it's a mistake. Try to, you know, make sure that you're editing things and looking things over to see if you can make a change. But like, I was just really embarrassed. It's like, not only did I tell them that they were kind of the second fiddle, right.
That I already pitched it somewhere else, but it kind of looks bad on me as a writer in terms of editing because I didn't end up changing the magazine name on there. So that was really embarrassing for me. But I learned from that, I haven't made that mistake in a while, but it happens, you know what, we're humans, it happens some times. So that's another mistake I've made in terms of like other mistakes I've made in my business. Like I, you know, one of the biggest mistakes I made was trying to build the wrong business, right? Like I spent all this time trying to build this business that was not the business I should have been building. And I didn't really understand how to make it better until I kind of crashed and burned and burned out. So I tried to build this, this monstrosity of a business that didn't make any sense for me.
And I kept trying to do all these different techniques that I had heard, worked for other writers. So I was like, Oh, well, if it worked for them, that means that, you know, it'll work for me. Or if it's just the best method, that means it'll work for me. So I spent all this time doing all these things, and it's just embarrassing because it's like, it's just the dumbest thing. Like why would I try to build someone else's business? Like why would I try to do all these things that don't make any sense for my business and don't make any sense for who I'm marketing to, and just try to make all these things just because someone else was saying like, Oh yeah, this one thing worked for me and it doesn't seem to work for anybody else.
So when the
Kind of the thing that I'm getting to with that one is that I reframed that and re started and built a new business. Basically I recalibrated my business and kind of started over a little bit from scratch. And then now I have a business I really love. And that was really important for me. Like that was really important for me to go through that transition of building the wrong business, trying to make all these things work that weren't going to work and starting over. So it really helped a lot. So that's another embarrassing things I've done in my business.
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There's a lot of things where I've ended up having a template, right? Like we have LOI templates and I have a bundle it's linked below of templates and marketing contracts, things that I use to get more marketing done, but also make sure it's going to the right niche. But I have sent those to the wrong people. Like I've sent those templates that were meant for one industry to a different industry by accident. Or I sent them from one person and forgot to change the company name or forgot to change the name of the person. Like sometimes that's what happens when you have templates, you make mistakes and you end up with things that you wish, you know, that you wish were not templatize, just so that you didn't make these mistakes. Right. So when I was doing these things, I, I was trying to get marketing out and I was doing it too quickly and I wasn't being diligent enough.
So when that company got my LOI, then they ended up thinking like, Oh, well maybe she shouldn't work for us. Cause she's sending it to the wrong person or she's doing the wrong thing. Or sometimes I'll have multiple messages open on LinkedIn and I'll end up having like a message here and a message here. And I'll try to send them all out just so I can get them done. And sometimes I've made mistakes. Right? I think that this message is going to Steve, but it's actually going to Matt or it's going to someone else. And I ended up making I ended up making a mistake on on what happens with these LOI. So that's another embarrassing thing I've done. I have been on calls with people where I've made mistakes. I've been on calls with people where I get on a call and I, you know, made a mistake.
I thought I was on a call with this business, but I was actually on a call with another business. And I had to do some recon while I was on the phone. And that was earlier on, that really hasn't happened the last few years. But early on in my career, I was like, Oh crap, I'm not actually on the call with this person. I'm on a call with this person. And it's just kind of like when you are trying to do too many things at once, that's when you end up making mistakes like these, like that's when you end up trying to, you know, pigeon hole thing or not pigeonhole trying to like guide things in the wrong direction, or you try to like do too many things at once. Or it's just, it's just a whole thing. So if you you've ever made mistakes like this, like you put the wrong name on there, you put the wrong publication name, you sent the wrong pitch, the wrong magazine, you were sent the wrong LOI template to the wrong person, or you got the name of the magazine wrong.
Or there's just all these different things. Like I've made all these different mistakes and I'm still here. I'm still here and it hasn't, you know? Yeah, it's embarrassing and you apologize. And you're like, man, I'm so sorry. Well, you know what, we're human beings and we make mistakes and you know, something that I learned along the ways like we're human beings, not human doings, right. So we're not robots. We're not going to be able to pump out everything all the time correctly. And this is kind of just, Oh, Daphne's here. Hi Deb. So I just say, hi, Daffy. He popped in and hi to Tommy. So so yeah, so the other piece that is embarrassing for me sometimes is that sometimes I get really embarrassed about how my fear has taken over in certain areas. So like, for example, there's been, when I was really early on in my career, I was really scared a lot of the times to pitch people.
And I just, I didn't have this concept that they're just other humans. Right. They're just other people. They're just, they happen to work at a magazine or they happen to work at this company or whatever. They're just human beings. Like, and I was so, so scared that it was just like, man, it was just that, that something horrible is going to go wrong. Or by pitching this person that everything was going to fall on me. And they were, Oh my gosh, what am I going to do? If all these people get back to me, I'm not gonna be able to handle it. And all this avalanche of work is going to come and in the face basically. And that just never happened. Like I was scared of all these things. I was scared of all these things. Like what if I have too much work?
Or what if I succeed? Or what if I fail? Or what if I, you know, end up, I can hear you typing little production friend. We have a production friend in here, just so you guys know we have a, we have a production friend sometimes that we can hear getting away as he's over there typing. So okay. Back to the point. So I made a lot of mistakes and I've, it's embarrassing. Like the fear that I've had, like there's a Mark Twain quote. That's basically like I've had a ton of fear. Like, you know I had all these fearful thoughts, but none of them have come true. Like there was some funny quippy way that he kind of put it together. So yeah. So it's okay to be fearful. It's okay to be scared, but don't let it keep you from taking action.
Like it did me, like, to me, that's kind of embarrassing that I was just so absorbed in all these things that didn't happen. Right. I was so scared of all these things. And so worried about all these things. Cause you know what things don't work out all the time. Like even if you do things perfectly, even if you have a ton of, of experience, even if you know what you're doing, like I know like other freelance writer, friends who have been writing as long as I have or longer, and they still have clients where it just doesn't work out or they make a mistake or something happens like we're human, we're regular people. Like, all we have to do is kind of fix that. So if you're feeling a lot of fear and you're feeling scared about the future and you're feeling like if you make a mistake, everything will avalanche it go downhill.
Then let me alleviate that for you. Like, I have made tons of mistakes. I have been held back by fear. I've been held back by like all these different ideas that I was not good enough, or I couldn't write well, or I like my clients were like pitying me by working with me or this idea that I just couldn't do it, that I was never going to get there. I was never going to make enough money or I was never going to make, get the clients I wanted. And I was never going to write the things that really mattered to me. And I was never going to be able to build a business that I really liked. It was always going to be this trudge and Drudge thing, but it's not true. It's kind of a lot of it's in your head. And here's a good example too.
When I was first starting out. So like my first reported article that I ever did, it took me a month. It took me a month to not only source everybody. Like I had to find interviewees, interview them, put all my notes together, write it, edit it, turn it, it took me a month. It took me a whole month to do one article. It absorbed all of my time and energy. And now it's like, I can get 10 or 20 of them done depending on complexity, like in a month. Right. So and there was a while, there was a long while where I was doing 20 to 25, like maybe not 25, but like at least 20 interviews a week, maybe it was 25 wouldn't at one time, it doesn't matter. So I was doing like 20 to 25 interviews per week. And the very first time I did it, it took me a whole month to do three interviews.
I think it had, yeah, it had three interviews and it took me a whole month to do the interviews, find the people, put everything together and that's not so much embarrassing and not so much a mistake, but it kind of shows, I think what those mistakes have helped me get to, like when I started, it took me a whole month to do that. Now it's like I do a lot in a month because I have processes. I have sources that I can always go back to I've know the steps to do everything. And sometimes I think it's really important to make those mistakes. Even if they're embarrassing, even if you feel like it's the worst thing you've ever done in your business, sometimes it's really important to make those mistakes because they teach you the processes to actually finish up the project that you're working on.
It's teaching you the evolution of how to get quicker, how to get the work done in a way that makes sense, but is efficient. And it's not like you're sitting around all the time trying to just like figure out what to do. Cause that's what I did that month was like me figuring out what to do. I was trying to figure out how do I find people? Or how do I get them on the phone? Or how do I set up interviews? Or how do I, what do we do with these transcriptions? Or like, I try to transcribe everything ourself that's that kind of leads into another mistake I made for a long time. For years, for years, I used to tell my partner, I used to tell him that I had to transcribe everything myself. I was like, I need to transcribe it because otherwise I can't remember it.
Like, it really helps me to hear the tape again, you know, hear the recording again, because then I can remember like, Oh yeah, they said this, this is important. I need to remember this is an important quote. And I was like, if I get the transcript, I'm not hearing it again. I won't be able to remember. And I did this for years. Like I wasted hours and hours and hours transcribing my own interviews and doing this, like there's robots that do it. There were robots to do it. And all I had to do was put it in the little robot, like Temi is what I use or you can use rev, but rev is like real people. I'm doing it. So it's a little bit more expensive, but there's otter.ai. There's all these different tools that will just do it for you. Then they will, they will just take it and transcribe it for you.
But I wasted all these hours doing it because I kept thinking like, no, I have to hear it. I have to hear it. And I did at the beginning to be fair. I did at the beginning, it just helped me kind of stick on remembering what they said. But as I did more interviews, I didn't need to be transcribing my own notes. I could have just done it through a transcription service. And it's just kind of one of those things where you get in your own way, right? Like I just kept wasting all this time. So I just kept wasting all this time, doing things that I didn't need to because I thought that I needed to do these things because of all I need to hear it and stuff like I could just read it. I was, it was going to be okay. I would remember it.
And that's just, you know, it's embarrassing waste of times embarrassing, like waste of all the stuff that I'm not going to get back, you know, it'd take me a long time to transcribe things it's not quick for me to do. And it would just be another part of the process of writing interviews that basically, or of writing articles, where I take the interviews and it, instead of just kind of moving the process along, you know, like other journalists, I was like, you know what? I need to make this extra hard on myself. I need to transcribe everything too. So I think that as you're learning the process, that's, that's part of it is like, you're trying to figure out how to do it, how to be efficient, how to make it work. But then also kind of like how to get out of your own way and stop doing the dumb stuff.
So I'm going to tell you guys like we're about halfway. So I'm gonna tell you guys my most embarrassing one, and I'm gonna give you a little pup date. And then also like, if you feel like this has been funny or helpful or useful in any way, feel free to like it. Feel free to share it subscribe to the channel. If you feel like, you know, you kind of want to get some more freelance writing advice. This one's a little beat. I've got my Christmas sweater on. I look like a candy cane today. I'm like little Christmas elf. And you know, I just it's Christmas. So why not? So Merry Christmas, everybody happy holidays. I'll do a quick pup date. And then I will tell you guys like my so far, one of my most embarrassing things. So they're asleep down here. Let me see if I can wake them up.
Minnie. You want to treat out? Oh, good girl. Good girl. Bear. You want to treat? Oh, you're awake. Good girl. Good job, buddy. Good job. Well, no one's wearing.
And your Christmas PJ's today. Everybody said they weren't interested in Christmas. PJ's today. They said they, they just want to be
In the [inaudible]. They just want to be in the fur. They want to be natural. So they're natural today. They just kinda feel like they're, you know, Christmas,
Christmas is a time to just be themselves. So
I'm going to be even more treatise to you and you good job guys. Plus all stars. You're the cutest and I love you. Good girl. All right. Oh yeah.
Yay. Merry Christmas. Puppers. Territo. Yeah. So we got them Fritos. They know that word. If I say Territo, they get really excited. Like, let's see if I can get them to do it on camera. We do. You want to treat up? Oh, there's the head tail. You want treat him
Good girl. Very. You want to treat up good job, buddy. Good job guys.
So Vicki also says, I'm going to put this here. So she said, this is useful to people who think they work too slowly to make the business profitable. Full-Time that's totally true. I used to think because other people worked quicker than me, that I was not supposed to be a freelance writer. That's something that I struggled with a ton. Like I thought that because I worked slower than some of my friends or because it took me a longer time to do things that I just shouldn't be a writer that like, Oh, well, if I can't do it quickly, then I shouldn't do it. But then we learned that it's not really about being quick, per se. It's about doing the work that resonates with you. And then that kind of feels a process in itself. If you're doing a ton, like there was this you know, in the beginning you would do like a lot of blog posts, right? You're like sweet. I'm making a lot of money because I'm writing 20 blog posts a month. Like, no, what we want to do is write like a certain specific amount of blog posts and then have other projects that are, you know, higher end projects to kind of fill in the gaps there. We don't want to be a churn and burn type of thing. We don't want to be doing a thousand blog posts or a thousand things all the time trying to make more money because it's not scalable. You can't end
Up, you can't, you only have
So much time. So if you end up doing more
Work, then
You spend more time and it's tiring. But if you do less work for more money, that's kind of the direction you want to do. And you don't, it's not less work per se for more money in terms of like, we're talking about time-based stuff, we're not talking about less work, like lazy stuff. And we're not talking about less work in terms of
Like you know,
Like you're trying to overcharge people for the work. What we're talking about is like you do one case study instead of 10 blog posts, or you do one white paper instead of, you know, one ebook or, or some sort of slice and dice where it's a longer-term project that takes a few weeks to do rather than a blog post, which could take, you know, however long that takes you a few hours or a few days, depending on complexity and what you have to do. But what we want to do is kind of work up to those more complex projects. So yes, I think the slow part,
You know, is really important in the fact that like, number one, you don't have to compare it
To everybody else about speed and what you're doing. Number two, it's okay to work slow. I think I'm naturally more, I work slower than other people. Like I, I think compared to my, my friends that I know that who are also freelance writers or even people beyond me, like, I think I'm kind of slow in getting work done. It takes me a little bit longer. It takes me a little while to kind of like formulate things and edit and write. But I have my own process and it works for me and it took me a long time to get there. Like it took me a long time to figure out like, this is my process. I'm not the type of person who can write 75 blog posts a month or like 50 or whatever. I that's just doesn't work for me. Like I, to spend time on each thing, I just can't, I'm not a pump and dump like pump kind of person like that.
Doesn't I guess I said this about the dog, cause now thank you for the laughter. So this is my embarrassing episode. I now said pumping up my camera twice. Maybe even three times, I'm not like a churn and burn type of person that just doesn't work for me. I would rather work on a longer term, like chunks of projects. Like they might have blog posts, but it also has like an ebook or some landing pages or a sales page, or it comes with another downloadable resource, like some sort of mix of content that allows me to give it depth rather than it be like, we need to have all these things all the time. You know, and, and not a lot of them, like, I like to do clumps of them, like maybe once a week or like a group of four within a certain amount of time periods, something like that.
So yeah, Debbie says, I'm gonna pull this up. So Daphne says they 100% know the word tree. Oh, that's cute. Yeah. So we also have Instagram, which is also how we found the word tree though. So they have an Instagram, which is how we started saying that we're treated. Okay. So I just want to pull that up. So let me tell you guys my most embarrassing moment so far, I'm pretty sure that I'm pretty sure that this will kind of alleviate you guys like ever worrying about saying something weird to someone. So a few years back, I think this was 2018 or 2017. I wrote quality emails. So normally I send client gifts every year. So every year I send out client gifts, like I mailed them things this year. I'm not just because people have been a little bit weird about mail, like with COVID and everything.
And then also I don't feel comfortable asking for all of my client's home addresses. I just feel like that's uncomfortable and weird and crossing a personal boundary, you know, asking for their work address to send it to a building is a lot different than sending it to their home. So I so I'm not sending client gifts this year, but what I used to do is emails. Maybe I'll send cards like electronic, like E cards or whatever. Anyways, so I send these holiday emails every at the time I just said holiday emails. And I said, you know, like I was thanking them for being a client and being working together and that I hope we can continue working together. And like basically just, you know, a nice email about the experience of working together and how great it was and how I hope that we can stay connected or stay working together or that like I'm wishing them the best of the future, all that kind of stuff.
So instead of saying, it's been a pleasure working with you. I said, it's been pleasuring to work with you. It's been pleasuring to work with you or it's been a pleasuring to work with you. Right. So instead of saying it's been a pleasure, I just made it sexual and made it weird and said, it's been a pleasure to work with you. So that made me feel really embarrassed. Cause I had read it like 60 times. I was like, okay, this is what going to say. I've read it a bunch of times. Maybe I was tired. Maybe I was, I don't know, like, I don't know what happened, but I read it a ton of times and it just slipped by me. It's it's been a pleasuring, like my, in my brain. I was like, yep. It says it's been a pleasure. Like it's been a pleasuring experience to be around you.
Like, yeah. But so even though I sent these holiday emails to all of my best clients, like I'm sending these emails to all of my best clients saying like, thank you for, it's been a pleasuring being with you. Right. Like saying that to the people who I've loved working with the most, after that I got work from it. Like I still got work. People were like, yeah, it's been great working with you too. Like, we'd love to keep working with you. Here's an article. Here's this thing. Like, let's talk about this part. Like I got work rugged, even though, even though I said something weirdly sexual, I made a typo, I made a mistake. I still got work from it. Like I, you know, and everyone answered like every one of my best clients answered me and some, some of it was work and some of it was kind of stuff that I think was more delayed in terms of work, but I still got work from it.
So even though you can make weirdly sexual uncomfortable emails by accident, or you can make weird. Yeah. It's yeah. Daphne just said it is a pumping dumb experience. Yeah. That, that would be way worse. That would be way worse than saying it's been pleasure. Yeah. So, yeah. So I said this, but I still got work and you know why? Because I had a track record with these clients of doing a good job. I already had proven my, you know, throughout the year I had already proven that I did a good job, that I make very few errors, that I'm a pleasure to work with, not a pleasuring and that I turn things in on time. I listened to their feedback. I asked for feedback, I do the edits and I don't complain. And I, you know, do all the things they asked me to do.
So even though I made a typo, a really embarrassing one that I'm still embarrassed about now. And my partner and I still joke about it. They'd be like, we'll probably be joking about it today that I still got work and I'm still here and I'm still working. So as long as you, I apologized, right? Like I, I went back and I was like, Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry that, that I wrote this in the email, but it's still, it happens. Like, I don't know what to tell you. Like I normally don't make typos. My work is very clean. Normally. Like I know other writers who have VA's or other people read their work for like typos and mistakes. Like not reading their work in terms of context and making sure the pieces make sense, but like actual typos are missing words. Like when I get my stuff read and edited, it's mostly for like, am I crazy?
Does this all flow together and make sense? So I make very few typos and very few mistakes and it just so happens. I made a really embarrassing one on a holiday email to my best clients. And it happens. It just happens. I don't, I, I think the best thing that I learned from it is like, you have to have a good track record and you have to show up and do your best work. And sometimes you're going to make embarrassing mistakes. It happens. And I wish I didn't make it, but I also can't tell you like, it, it wasn't bad either. Like I got work, I got work from it. It was it's still a funny thing that happened. Like I, I don't know. I mean, I guess I find it embarrassing for several different reasons. Still not the same embarrassment that I originally felt, but I'm hoping that this story of like you guys out there that think sending one email we'll make a mistake or one email, we'll put you on a black list or you're afraid of doing this thing or like that, because you're a writer.
Like everything you do has to be error free and perfect. And like, Oh my gosh, I'm a writer. So I have to do this. But like even my emails have to be grammatically correct. And Oh my gosh, I have to do all this. Like we're regular people. We're not robots. Like that's kind of the thing, right? Like robots, this is my own opinion. But robots would have a really hard time replacing humans as writers because robots are very right. They're just going to write to the thing. But the thing I've always kind of held on to is like, you have to know grammar rules to break them. Robots, don't know grammar rules to break them. They just know grammar rules. They don't know how to break them. They're like, this does not fit. And this does not compute. Right? We're not robots. We're humans. And we know how to, to make a sentence that is romantically.
Correct. But make it, give it style and make it sound like us and give it that thing that really humans can give it. And even though I made that mistake in that email and I made a Gillian mistakes, I'm probably sure there's tons of mistakes. I'm not even thinking of right now when I was thinking about this episode that I could bring up and you'd guys would be like, Oh my gosh, that's the dumbest thing ever. Why did you do that? But I'm still here. And I think mistakes kind of help you learn. There's a lot of times we make mistakes. And like now I double-check, I have like someone else read my holiday cards. Like I write things by hand. Like I do, I do it a lot different now to try to avoid all these other issues. Right. But I still kind of, sometimes when you think you're doing really well and you have a little mistake and it takes you down from your pedestal a little bit, I think that kind of helps you, brings you back to reality, reminds you that it's okay to make mistakes.
It's okay to be embarrassed. It's okay to do something wrong. And if someone comes back and they were like, that's totally inappropriate. You should've never done that. Like, Oh my gosh, like don't work with that person anymore because they're expecting a level of perfection. That's not real. And even if you apologize, and even if you do all these things and they're still upset, like, I don't know what to tell you. I don't work with them. I, if people make mistakes, it would be better just to laugh about it. It would be better just to kind of move on and be like, yeah, like it's been great working with you too. And just apologize for the typo and yeah. A robot. Yeah. And Daffy says when a robot tries to make sentences, a lot of the times it gets a loop in a loop out. Yeah.
So I'm going to pop this up just cause it's funny. Like I might be missing out like a software thing here, but yeah. So like there's tools that you can use, right? There's little robot tools that are like, check your work for grammar and mistakes and check your work for plagiarism and check your work for all. Like, first of all, if you're writing an original piece from your own research, you should not have plagiarism. So there's that second, if you're having a robot check for grammar and punctuation mistakes, like I think you need to spend some, some time actually learning more about grammar. Like actually learning about sentence structure actually learned so that you don't have to have rely on a tool to do it for you. So I would spend some time actually learning about it more so than relying on the robots.
That's just me. But yeah, so these are my embarrassing moments and I probably have a lot more, to be honest with you, like maybe people are embarrassed by this sweater that makes me look like where's Waldo. I don't know. Like sometimes we make embarrassing mistakes as freelance writers and we kind of just have to deal with it and that's just happens. It just happens to us sometimes. But I'm here to tell you that, you know, it's okay, it's gotta be fine. Don't be fearful of mistakes. I would be more fearful of not taking action and not moving your business in the direction you want it to go. I wouldn't spend so much time worrying about how you might make a mistake or how you might get blacklisted or you might do this. Like just move on chose to try to do your best.
And try to think about positive things that can come out of it. Like maybe you're going to make an impression on someone with your weird thing that you did. And they were like, Oh yeah, that's it. Then they just remember you, right? Like maybe they don't remember you for the best reason. Cause you made this weird typo, but they still remember you. So I hope that this kind of has been helpful in terms of seeing from my own career of the past, almost decade of the mistakes I made. I have more mistakes. I'll probably do another one of these to tell you guys all this other weird stuff I've done. But that's my most embarrassing one is that weird, weird typo. So I hope you guys are having great holidays. I'm going to give one more pup date. They're kind of sleeping right now. So I've got her tail out. Charlotte, can you give us a little wag? You wanna treat all she does want a treat. Oh good girl. Bear has got his face tucked in the blanket. Classic
Bear. Bear likes to
Breathe hot air for some reason. I don't know why, but his whole face is tucked in that like I can't even see his face where I'm sitting,
But we got mini. We've got the Trudeau. There you go. Good job. So here she is. There she is. Okay.
Good job, honey. You're an all star bears
Asleep cause used old. That's what happens.
All right. Well I hope you guys enjoyed my, my holiday live stream. I hope you guys feel a little bit better about mistakes you made in your business or embarrassing things you've done. I've done a lot of them. So thank you guys for showing up. If you feel like this has been helpful, if you feel like this has been funny or weird or share-worthy or whatever, feel free to share it, feel, feel, feel free to hit the like button below, subscribe to the channel. And I will see you guys next week. We're going to talk about some cool 20, 21 things and yeah. Hope you guys have a great rest of your Christmas and holiday time off and a great 20, 21, like heading towards the new year. So bye. Hope you have a great day.
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