Handling Rejection and Disappointment as a Writer
As freelance writers, we often hear no more than yes, and what's even more common is hearing silence. You're not sure if your message went through, you're being ignored, or you've been snoozed until later. In this live, we'll go over how to deal with all the no's and not yet's, strategies for moving forward during hard times, why you need a good feels folder, and bouncing back from the most disappointing moments in your career.
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Raise your hand, if you've ever heard no. In your freelance writing career, like, I definitely could raise my hand. I've heard no way more than I've ever heard. Yes. And sometimes the way you hear no is not right now, or basically like, Hey, follow up with us in a few months or try again later, basically. So it's, so it's totally common that we get rejected in our freelance writing career. Like it's very normal to hear no, a lot. It's very normal to hear not right now, but the way that we handle it and deal with disappointment and rejection in our business really matters to our long-term ability to bounce back in our freelance writing and create good content and find those clients that are really good fit for us. So today we're going to talk about how to kind of deal with that disappointment and rejection in your business.
And we are going to go over some ways to deal with it, how to kind of like get through it with some strategies and then how, you know, a field feels good folder or a good fields folder is really helpful to, you know, making sure you have some things to remind you that, Hey, like you're good at your job. So the first thing we're gonna talk about is basically how to deal with hearing. No, and not right now. So there's two different things hearing. No, doesn't always mean no, you know, it sometimes means not right now. No. Can sometimes just mean, you know, pitch us again, if it's a magazine and be like, Nope, this doesn't work pitches again. Or no can mean like, Nope, you're right now, you're not a good fit. Maybe you need more clips. Maybe you need more experience.
Maybe there's something that's popped up that you feel like, you know, I could have done better with this pitch or I could've done better with this LOI or better on my initial call. So there's a bunch of things that we can consider here. So when we hear no, it's like, okay, cool. Like totally get it. Maybe we're not a fit. We kind of just want to like, not take it as a personal rejection that we're bad at our job or that we suck at things or that we'll never make it because hearing no in your business is very, very normal. I can tell you, after a decade of freelance writing that hearing no and hearing not right now or follow up with us later. Very, very common. So when you hear something like not right now, so let's say someone gets back to you on an LOI, you send an LOI to someone, a letter of introduction, or you send a pitch and they're like, Hm, like try again later.
Or they're like, Oh, we already covered this. Like, do you have any thing else? Or those are for publications where businesses are like, Hey, like we're working on our content strategy. You know, let's talk in a few months. Like those not right now, it's our, how we end up getting those warm leads. That's how we end up with a bunch of clients that follow up with, and that builds over time. So not right now is, are actually really great for your business. They add to your irons in the fire. They add to the people that you can follow up with. I remember when I was first freelance writing, I didn't really understand how warm leads work. I was like, how is everybody else getting these warm leads? Or how is everybody else getting these potential clients that they get to follow up with? Like they have dozens of them or they have like hundreds of them to follow up with throughout the year.
And the key is, is that you're sending your marketing and you're getting people to say, not like try again, not right now, but maybe later that's how you add things to your warm leads. Those are people who talk back like they, they came back and they sent you an email reply. They could've just ignored you, which is also very common. We often get a lot of silence in our business, but they get, they got back to you and they were like, Hey, we're working on something like, you know, send us some samples or follow up in a few months. Those things are really great for building our pipeline, our marketing pipeline. We now have people to follow up with and we now have options in like things that can work out later on. So not right now are really great for following up. They're really great for filling your pipeline.
They're really great for building relationships. Sometimes people need, you know, six months to kind of get familiar with you and get familiar with your clips or how you can help them. So not right now are really great for building your business. The other way that you can deal with them is like, I always boomerang everything. Like if you've been on this live stream at any point, I probably talked about, about boomerang and stuff, and this is how you easily follow up with people. So when you get a not right now, all you have to think is like, cool. Now I have another iron in the fire that may work out and then you send someone to reply. Be like, totally get it. You know, I'll follow up with you in a few months or you can even ask, Hey, are you okay with me following up in a few months to see if we can work together on something?
Or I've, I've asked that. And I have never had people say no. And I think like, you either get silence where someone's just like, okay, leave me alone. Or you get a reply that says like, yeah, please follow up. So the boomerang process, it makes it really easy for you to follow up on all your not right now. So you end up writing a reply back, Hey, can I follow up? And then they reply back or whatever they say yes. Or they ignore you or whatever. Then you just go into boomerang. It's just boomerang for Gmail. It's a little Chrome browser extension. And you just boomerang the message, right? You say basically snooze the message until three months out. And then boomerang puts it back in your inbox three months later. So you can follow up with them. And the more you get to do that, the more you're filling your marketing pipeline, which means that you have to do less big pushes of active marketing and more following up.
So the following up is people who've already gotten back to you and it's, you know, there's a common phrase is like, it's easier to like nurture someone than to find everybody else through cold leads. Right? So it's a lot easier to just keep following up with someone who you already have, their email they've already responded. They've already maybe given you an example of like, Hey, we're thinking about blog posts or we're thinking about this part of our content strategy, try again later. And it's a lot to follow up with. Not right now, it's through boomerang rather than having to keep building a list of people to reach out, to, and keep finding prospects and keep reaching out cold. So when you hear no, that doesn't mean that it's no forever. It could just be noted this pitch or no to this thing that you sent that like, just isn't a fit for them.
You can always try again and then you're not right now is, are your options to just, okay, cool. Like you got back to me now you're in the warm leads category. We'll follow up with you later. So that's kind of how to handle the nose and then not right now, it's on a, you know, a general overarching level. And then like, let's talk about how to bounce back when you're disappointed. So I have been just appointed many times in my career. Like it's not uncommon for freelance writers to be disappointed. You send your first pitch to a big magazine and you're like, Oh, maybe I'll work out. And then you just hear nothing or you end up getting a project. And you're like, this project is going to make a big deal for my business. You know, I'm going to get all of these clips.
I'm going to work with this top client. And it's a long-term contract. And after like a month or two, it just melts and falls apart. And they're like, Nope, we need to cancel the contract. We're going in different direction. Or, you know, and you're just feel devastated or you launch something or you put something out into the world. You're like, this is going to be great. I'm adding this thing. Like I have a few friends, right. Or friends who started podcasts and you know, you launch a thing and you're like, nobody's listening or nobody's subscribing or you know, it's, it just feels really disappointing because you feel like more people should be tuning in. And you're like, Hey guys, this is really great. And that's normal, you know, it's normal for us to feel disappointed. It's normal for us to end up getting you know, a lot of things in our mind where we feel like, Hey, this is really going to work out.
This is going to be great. And then you're like, man, I'm disappointed. So I just kind of want to put a little reminder here. That being disappointed is kind of part of it. Right? Being disappointed is part of being a human number one. And number two is part of being a writer. It's part of the process. Like you can't come back from like, you can't overcome all your obstacles. If you don't have disappointment, like you can't get through all your roadblocks, if you didn't end up in disappointment at some point somewhere. So when you're feeling disappointed, like whether you you know, like you tried really hard in your business and you're like, you know what? I have to go back to my full-time job. Like I had six months of savings. I'm out of money. I don't know what to do. Like whether you're disappointed about that, or you're disappointed about like the trajectory of your career, things are going differently.
Like I've been open in my email newsletters if this year has gone way differently for me than I thought. And I've been, you know, transparent about like how I felt really disappointed. Like the end of my last year was, was really good. Like, I, I had a really good end of last year, despite all the things that were going on with the pandemic and this year has just been a roller coaster. I, this year has way harder for me than last year. And that made me feel disappointed. I was like, okay, like I got through, you know, 2020, and we're going to do it for 2021. And then I'm like, Oh, Oh, Oh no. And it really got to me. And disappointment is part of it. It's part of, you know, it's part of the rejection, it's part of the nose. It's part of when you send an editor, an article or you send a business, something that you worked on for them, and they're like, Nope, you missed the Mark.
This is terrible. Like, no, and that's really disappointing. You're like, I worked really hard. I thought I asked you all the right questions to make sure that you know, that I was getting all of this stuff in order. And when you get that rejection where they're like, Nope, you missed the Mark. Like, Oh, you can feel really disappointed in yourself. Hey, Jenny, welcome in. Yes. I just want to pop this up. I think this is good. Hey Jenny. So she says so true and fear of rejection can hold us back so much, at least in my experience. Totally true. Jenny fear of rejection is like something I used to be really scared about. I used to be like, so fearful that people were going to say no, or that I was bothering them or being annoying or that whatever I was doing, like the, just the rejection was like, be personally not the idea, not what I was pitching.
Not the project or whatever. I wrote that they were like, Nope, you missed the Mark. I used to be like, Oh my God, I'm so terrible. I'm horrible person. And man, that fear of rejection, I think what really helped me. And I hope this kind of helps others is like, you have to kind of normalize the rejection. This is normal as a freelance writer when you're putting yourself out there, when you're putting your work out into the world. And you're saying like, Hey, here's my idea. What do you think? Or here's the piece I wrote? What do you think? What are the changes or edits you need? Like, you're asking them for feedback. And sometimes feedback can be really harsh. And sometimes that feedback is just outright rejection and we kind of have to normalize that a bit. We have to kind of build, build up our little bricks, you know, like build up our little bricks of like, Hey, we can do this.
Like we can, we can build the foundation of our business and yeah, we're going to get, you know, a few bricks are going to fall out or we're going to realize there's a weak foundation somewhere, or that we made a mistake, but that's normal. That's totally going to happen. So when we're bouncing back from disappointment, which, you know, if you get stuck in disappointment Island, like, which is where I was for awhile, you, you eventually kind of have to regroup. You know, you can stay on disappointment Island for a little while, but eventually that plane is going to fly by. That's like, Hey, do you need a ride? Like ride back to, you know, happy town basically. And you're like, yeah, I think I need to do that. So when that plane comes by and you're like, I need to deal with this disappointment. I need to move forward.
That's where we ended up having that feels good folder. So one of the things that really helps me kind of get back in the groove and deal with disappointment is reading emails that writers have sent me saying like, Oh my gosh, this helped me so much. I ended up doing X, Y, and Z, or I raised my prices this way. Or I went back to the client and said this and it worked out for, I need, please help me with this pitch. And like, they ended up getting a job with it. Or they ended up getting like immediate responses from like top magazines. Like I have a coaching student who like sent some pitches and she immediately got responses from the New York times parenting section and parents. So I was really proud of her for that. And you have to keep these things in a folder.
Like I read testimonials or I read like testimonials from both my clients and my coaching students. I read all of these things. I put them in a group. Like I read through them when I feel like I'm not doing a good job, or I've been hit with a lot of disappointment recently, and that feels good folder, or you can call it a good fields folder. I kind of interchange them. But if you have that good fields folder, that means that you can go back and remind yourself like, Hey, I am good at my job. I did good things. People really benefited from this. Like if you have a testimonial from a top-notch client talking like raving about how great you are, that's a really big deal. That's a really big deal. Remind yourself of that. When you're stuck on disappointment Island, like it's, it's really easy to just live on disappointment Island.
Like I lived there for a long time. I temporarily stayed on like a staycation this year, but I lived there for a long time where I was just like, I'm never going to do this. And this is horrible and all this stuff, but eventually you kind of have to work through those roadblocks. You got to remind yourself of all the things you're good at all. The skills that you have, that other people may not have. What makes you unique as a writer, the clients that you've helped, or the coaching students that you've helped, or just other writers that you've helped in different communities. You have to remind yourself of all the good that you've done in the world and all the good that you're going to do in the future. I feel like that those pieces kind of remembering like what's possible what you've done, how you can improve or ways that you can kind of like regroup and be like, all right, let's refocus and edit this piece.
Whatever I did it wasn't right. That really sucks. I cried a lot about it, but all right, let's, let's regroup here. Do our edits and send the editor what they want, because at the end of the day, your piece or your content strategy or whatever work that you've turned in has to match what the client is going for. Otherwise it's useless. So we have to kind of regroup and be like, all right, I can do this. Like they gave me feedback. They said, this is messed up. Fix this thing here. The sentence sucks. This word is weird. All this stuff like, or maybe sometimes you end up saying something that ends up sounding weirdly sexual, or like weirdly uncomfortable for some reason. And you're, you didn't read it. Like you didn't notice it on your read-throughs cause in your mind it made sense. And these are mistakes I've made.
Let's just like, put that out there by you by accident. You say something and it sounds really weird. And you just don't notice it in your mind. So it's normal, it's normal, but we have to get through it. We have to work through it, regroup, make those edits, make those changes and give them a piece that really works. Give them the strategy that works. And I think that's another little feather in your cap, right? If you can get disappointed, live on disappointment Island and then kind of bounce back, right? You end up taking in the feedback, dealing with the roadblocks, dealing with the mistakes you made, and then you give them something. They really love. You give your coaching student. Like, they're like, that's not, you know, I need something else. Or your client's like, Ooh, like try again. It, when you give them something that really works for them, that's a big feather.
You bounced back from all that disappointment, all that crap, all those hard edits, all that time that you spent building it the first time rebuilding it, this, or like incorporating the edits and rebuilding it a second time. Right. You bounce back. That's a big deal. Put that in your good fields folder. Hey, I did all these edits. Like I, yeah, I might've screwed this piece up the first time, but man, the second round, boom, I nailed it. And that's kind of normal, right? It's we have to normalize that too. Right? So put that in your good field's folder and normalize the fact that like writing as a process, you're going to sometimes turn in something where like, in your mind, it makes sense in your mind. You're like, ah, I totally nailed it. And then your client's mind. You're like, no, we are on two different highways in two different States, driving opposite directions.
We've we've missed the boat. We're on the wrong thing. And the point is to like, regroup, figure that out, put it in your good fields folder that you figured it out. And that you're like when your client sends you an email saying, Hey, great job on the second draft. Boom. Save that for later because remind yourself, you can come back from disappointment. You can regroup. You can make changes. And I'm been talking a lot about work, but there's things in your business too, right? Like you send a lot of marketing and you hear nothing or you end up building a new piece out of your business. Like you end up doing a product or you end up doing more coaching or you end up adding more marketing consultation services or something. And it just isn't working out. Like we can still bounce back from that. So the next thing I want to talk about, if you guys have questions, if anybody in the chat has questions, you can pop them in the chat. Oh, we haven't done a pup date before I get to the last thing. We should do a pub date. All right. They're sleeping over there. Oh, let's see if we can get Charlotte and Cameron. There she is. You guys want some trade-offs
Right up the job. Very awake. Do you want some tree dos? There you go. Good job buddy. All right. There you go. You guys are the cutest. There you go. How are you doing? Are you having a great day to have a hair in your nose? Okay. There you go. All right. We did a little pup date. I forgot. All right.
You're sitting up. Maybe we can put bear in the frame. There we go. They just love, they just know that word Trudeau. Oh, I'll say that again. And I shouldn't have said it. Charlotte, do you want to treat out? She's got like the little head tilt. She's like, yes, please treat. Oh, thank you. What would you like treat up? He was like, yes. Thank you. Good job, buddy. Good job guys. You're cute and adorable. And you know what guys you're dealing with disappointment and you have pets or dogs. There is nothing that makes you feel better than hugging your dog. I can tell you that from experience, when you're sitting on the floor, crying about all the rejections and no's, you've gotten nothing feels better than hugging your dog, especially when your dog hates it, when you hug them. So you want to hug them even harder, which is my problem because Charlotte hates being hugged.
Bo loves being hugged. So if I go hug Charlotte, she tries to get away. I just hug her harder because I love her and she should know that. So, okay. Last thing we're going to go, go through here. If you guys have questions, pop them in the chat. If you feel like this has been helpful so far, feel free to give it a thumbs up and feel free to subscribe below for more tips about how to make freelance writing work for you. So strategies, strategies to move forward. Even when it's hard, let's preface this with things are hard. Things are hard, no matter where you are in the spectrum, no matter how many, how much money or how many clients people have. I've talked to freelance writers who make $0, who basically are just starting out to people who make over $250,000. Okay. And I had a friend who I, she just had a a hundred K quarter.
Okay. And that amazed me. And I'm super proud of her. You know who you are. Good job. So no matter where you are on the spectrum, it's going to be hard because you have to go through different phases of your business. Every time you change a phase of your business, things are hard. Sometimes what happens is you don't get paid on time. Sometimes the hard part is like, you're starting this new scary journey of changing the focus of your business. Maybe instead of doing one-off content, you want to do retainers. Maybe you want to move more into consulting and doing high-level strategy rather than doing pieces for people. Maybe you want to move into a totally different type of writing. That's more like like messaging and positioning or you want to do more just consulting on SEO. Like you build things out from the backend, like the technical backend, rather than just saying like, yes, key words and other stuff.
I'll add that in all that stuff is hard. It is hard to change phases of your business. That's normal to feel disappointed that that like, Oh man, this is harder than I thought. It's normal to feel disappointed that you didn't get there as fast as you thought, it's normal to feel disappointed that the transition isn't as bright and shiny and grass is greener than you thought it's okay to feel like it's really difficult because it is no matter where you are on the spectrum. Things can be really hard. There are things that will come easily to you because that's your personality. And that's the things that make sense to you. And there are things that will be really hard. Like that's normal, it's going to happen. It's hard to build a business. We are small business owners as freelance writers, and it's really hard to build a business.
And it's really hard to put yourself out there and it's really hard to change the directions of your business. It's really hard to get to a new level. It's really hard to get more money. It's really hard to get new clients. Like there's a lot of hard pieces in here. It's always worth it. Right. We always kind of look back and we're like, Oh, all of that horrible stuff that I thought was really bad was really worth it. I'm really glad it turned out this way. I can tell you this from my own experience. Like I, you know, I've had so many things over the last 10 years where I'm like, Oh my God, this is terrible. And then like the next day, I'm just like, Oh, or like a week later, I'm like, Oh no, this is way better than I thought. Like, why was I so upset?
Right. But at the time it felt really hard. It felt really difficult. So when we're moving forward, remind yourself, like, I always try to remind myself that tomorrow can be a better day. Every day we can restart every day we can wake up and be like, okay, self let's start over today. Every day we get to wake up is like, we're kind of lucky, right? Like I talk about this every time a birthday comes up, like my own birthday or my significant other's birthday, which is soon every year, the herd is thinning. So I w you know, every year, the year that you were born that heard is thinning from the minute second that you're born. People don't live. You know, unfortunately babies die. I don't know how it went there. But anyways, like every year there, there are people dying. They don't get to be the age that you are.
So every year you have a birthday and every year that you are every day that you get to wake up, somebody else didn't wake up today. Somebody else didn't get to that birthday. And as morbid and sad as it is like, man, every day you can start over every day. You can be like, ha. I woke up today. I get to start over. Yeah. Yesterday sucked. Yesterday was horrible. Now I can move forward. So I always try to keep that in mind is like, tomorrow can be a better day. The next month can be better. The future can be better. And yeah, like sometimes it's a little Pollyanna where, you know, I put on my Rose colored glasses and I'm like, Oh, the few, like four years from now, everything will be great. Yeah. But sometimes I need that amount of like positivity to get me to take action.
Sometimes I need like, as heavy a dose of the, the disappointment and the rejection and the hard stuff. I need a heavy dose of positivity to get me out. So when you're thinking about that, like every day can be better every day. You can make a difference every day, you can build something new every day that you get to wake up and do the cool stuff that you get to do. Right. We got into freelance writing for a reason to do all this school stuff that we want to do to write for clients that we like to get pieces out there that make a difference for people to teach people, stuff, to help other people grow their business. We got into writing for a lot of different reasons and yeah, it's hard. But when you're moving forward, just know that every day you can start over.
So that's one thing. And I want to put Jay what Jenny said up here. So she said, I'm glad I'm not the only one thinks it can be hard. Yeah. Jenny, I can tell you that. I, for the longest time thought I was the only one who thought it was hard. I had a bunch of friends around me who they are just like growing their business. And I was like, how is this happening? Like, what do I do? And I was like, Oh, I know I'll just build the same business that they are. And it blew up in my face and it was a disaster. Like, don't do that. But I want to kind of like normalize that for people like I've spent a lot of time feeling alone and being lonely as a freelance writer, because like, I felt like I was the only one who was really struggling, but lots of freelance writers are struggling.
Lots of people think it's really hard. It's normal. That it's hard. We're trying to do all these hard things. We're trying to get ourselves out there, build a business, do quality writing, help other people build, build their businesses, make sure our content teaches people and helps people. Like there's a lot of different factors in there. So don't, don't feel alone. Every, there are a lot of writers. Like I can tell you, there are a lot of writers that I talked to. I've talked to thousands of writers over the years. LA like everybody has a hard point in their business. It may not come early. It may come later on, but there's a hard point. Okay. So we only have a few more minutes. So you guys have questions, you put them in the chat. Okay. Strategy. So we're moving forward. So today, tomorrow can be a better day.
That's one thing strategies for moving forward. Remember we got to go back to the good fields folder. We got to look, look through it and remember that we're good at our job. The next strategy for moving back is that, or moving forward is that you have to start recognizing your own personal roadblocks. You can make a list or you can journal or have something that you have like in your notes app on your computer, but you have to know what your roadblocks are because when things get hard, they're hard uniquely for you. You can't just go to somebody else and say like, why is this so hard for me? Like, they can't answer that for you. Like, I'm sure they can give you some advice. I'm sure they can give you some steps, but it's uniquely hard for you because you have your own personal roadblocks.
Maybe you have very low self-confidence. Maybe you're really worried about your writing skills. Maybe you're really scared. You have that fear of putting yourself out there. You have fear of failure. You have fear of success. You have all these different roadblocks, maybe have mental health stuff. Like I have anxiety. I have to deal with that. That's one of the roadblocks for me is like, I get real wrapped up real quick sometimes with my anxiety. And I know writers who have depression, and that puts them out for a while. Like that's part of the hardness. They have to deal with that. They have to handle it, you know, as best they can and move forward. So you have to know what your own personal issues are and your own personal roadblocks. I think that that's a long winded process. Like it has taken me years to just get to this point where I know that places where I get tripped up and I'm like, Oh, I can kind of like be aware and identify them better.
I still don't know all of them, but I think it's a process. And once you start kind of realizing them and writing them down, you've you physically say like, ah, I noticed that when I get rejected, I get really anxious about the future. Hmm. I noticed that when someone tells me, no, I start thinking that they're rejecting me personally, or that they think I'm a bad writer or that my samples suck. I'm noticing that when I feel disappointed, I feel like immediately giving up. I don't feel like getting back in the ring and throwing a few punches. I'm just like, Nope, this isn't right for me. I should give up. You have to know your own personal things that get in your way, because that's how you solve them. Like, you know, if anything I've learned, like awareness is key. You have to know what you're up against to get over it.
Right. You can't just magically keep going through life and be like, wow, thanks hard. Okay. Well I guess this is not working. No. Oh, you have to be aware of what's holding you back. You have to be aware of the things that are like, basically I always kind of imagined it as like this fuzzy screen. Like you're trying to look out a window, but it's like so blurry. Cause there's like a fuzzy screen in front of you. It's like that. What's your fuzzy screen. Like it could be, you know, those like frosted windows at a cafe or whatever. It's like that. You're like looking out there and you're like, I see people moving and I see what I I'm assuming you were cars and stuff, but like, I don't really know what's going on. It's like that. What is your kind of like frosted window?
What are the things that are holding you back? What are the things that you think when, when these things happen, right? What are the thoughts that come into your mind when you get to know or when you get to not right now, or when someone says this sucked, please try again. Or when you get really harsh edits, like, I I'm sure that I'm not the only one who has gotten a piece back where you're like, Oh no. And you had to spend the next three days, rebuilding it from scratch, rewriting the whole thing, crying a lot, eating a lot of chips. Like you get it in and buy chips. I mean, both potato chips and chocolate chips. So we have to combine them otherwise we can't solve our problems. So, you know, I'm not the only one who's dealt with that. Right. And, but I know that, like I know when I start getting all these things, like I write them down or I, I notice them or I become aware.
So you have to know your own personal roadblocks. So when you're moving forward through all the hard stuff, know that it's hard, know that tomorrow can be a better day and know that you have to become aware of the things that will hold you back. Maybe it's a mindset that you've had since you were small. Maybe it's something that it, you just get really triggered by someone saying a certain word or, or I don't know, like there's different things for everybody. But remember that frosted glass like keeps you from getting to your kind of future that's on the other side. Right? Like imagine those cafes where like, there's only a Stripe of frosted glass, right? Like you go to those like fancy Starbucks in a city where it's like, the bottom half is clear and then there's like a frosted Stripe. And the top is clear.
It's like that all you have to just stand up and be like, Oh, now I can see outside. Like now I know what's going on and now I can kind of move through it. I know what's I know what's holding me back. So these are the kinds of things that we use to get over disappointment and rejection is like, we have to solve our own unique issues and we have to fix our mindset. We have to think about, you know what, it's just terrible. Now. It's not going to be terrible, terrible for forever. Right. Even the worst situations, won't be terrible forever. There will be good parts in those terrible situations. Like I'm sure I'm not alone being the person who has gone from like really crying hard to like laughing hysterically. Right? Like you go from like, Oh, hi God. Then you're like, Oh my God, that what I did was so funny, like maybe we can just laugh at it instead of crying about it and kind of move forward. So any other questions drop them in the chat? If you feel like this has been helpful so far, if you feel like you know this, you want to learn more about freelance writing, make sure to hit subscribe, hit full thumbs up. I'll give you guys update because they went back to sleep. So we'll see what they're doing over there. I'll
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You want a trio? Oh my gosh. Look at you. You're so cute. Good job guys. You're the cutest. All right. Bose,
Like please. Okay. One more. Both. Cause you look super cute.
You look super cute just for you and one more for you. Cause you're also people. All right.
So if you guys ever have questions, if you're watching this video and you're like, I have a question about what you just said or what you said was really confusing. Make sure to just drop a comment below. I always make sure to get back to comments and I think we're going to we're in ended there. So I hope this was helpful. I know it can be a tough topic. It can be a heavy topic sometimes when you're trying to deal with a lot of hard things in your business. But man, everybody has hard things. The hard things are just different for everybody and working through them, having your good fields folder to remind you that you're good at your job and you've done good things. And you've helped people really is, is important and normalizing the hard parts like saying like, I know there will be hard parts. This is just one of them. And then normalizing the fact that you're going to hear a lot of nos and not right now, I think is really helpful to kind of build in your finance writing business. So that was helpful. Hope you guys have a good weekend. It's been really rainy here. So I hope it's nice and sunny where you are and I will see you guys next week at 12:00 PM central. Bye.
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