📈 Millennials drive freelancing surge

Together with Momentous

🤓 How to boost energy & focus at work without caffeine or energy drinks

Forget time management.

If you’re trying to juggle proposals, projects, and deadlines without dropping the ball, then the secret is managing your energy.

Because you need consistent mental energy to get stuff done.

But the solution to the dreaded 2 PM brain fog isn’t another overpriced latte from your local Starbucks…

Instead, it’s Creatine.

As the most clinically studied supplement on the market, researchers have found it can not only help you lift more weight in the gym, but it can also boost cognitive function.

So it’s not just for gym rats anymore.

In fact, we’ve been taking creatine for years and have always wondered whether the mental benefits were simply placebo. But now, studies show they’re 100% legit.

And when it comes to Creatine, our weapon of choice is Momentous.

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Which is why many of our favorite podcasters including Tim Ferriss, Andrew Huberman, Chris Williamson and many more all trust Momentous.

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Without overdoing it on caffeine or energy drinks…

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Working With Clients

The Secret to a Successful Freelance Sales Pitch

Want to nail your freelance sales pitch?

Don’t be shy.

Ask lots of questions during the “discovery” process so you know exactly what success looks like before you pitch.

Here’s why:

What’s important to a new client may not be the same as your last client.

So by asking things like:

• What’s the #1 biggest challenge right now?

• What do you feel like isn’t working as well as it should right now?

• What makes this a priority right now?

• Have you hired anyone else to help with this in the past? How did that go?

… you can tailor your pitch to address their specific concerns and desires.

Not to mention you’ll be better positioned to satisfy them once they say yes.

Making the Rounds

• American millennials drive surge in freelancing as a side job
  
  

• The latest trick companies could be using to pay workers less
  
  

• Elon Musk won’t have to pay ex-Twitter staffers $500 million in severance
  
  

• LinkedIn rolls out Sponsored Newsletters
  
  

• Runway launches mind-blowing new text-to-video AI generator
  
  

• How some employers are getting creative to keep workers engaged

Working For Yourself

A Simple 3-Part Checklist to Help You Find Fulfillment in Your Career

Finding fulfillment is something many freelancers struggle with in their careers.

If you’re one of them…

Look for work that aligns with these three things:

1. What you enjoy doing 🙂

2. What you’re good at 💪

3. What you can get paid for 💰

We like to think of this as the “fulfillment trifecta.”

Pursuing a paycheck at the cost of personal enjoyment is just as bad as choosing a career you enjoy or are good at, but has minimal market demand.

The road to happiness starts by finding alignment between all three.

AI Prompts For Freelancers

Prompt of the Week: The Content Calendar

This AI prompt is designed to help you create a content calendar to grow your audience and build your personal brand.

Here is the prompt:

Click here to see an example output

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Tool of the Week

Build a beautiful one-page portfolio site for free with Carrd

Studies show there are over 1.5 billion freelancers in the world.

There’s no shortage of competition.

This means you’ve got to seize every opportunity you can to stand out.

One easy way is to set up a portfolio website.

In the past, this meant signing up for hosting and learning how to use WordPress.

But not anymore.

Now you can use Carrd to create a beautiful one-page portfolio site for free.

They’ve got dozens of templates you can use…

Or you can start with a blank slate to build your own.

Plus they’re fast to load and highly responsive, so they look great across desktops, tablets, and mobile.

Hit the link below to learn more:

Click here to try Carrd for free

Bonus Points

🤓 Work: Study finds 4-day workweek has practically no drawbacks (link)

🤑 Side Hustles: If I wanted to make $10,000 as a student, I’d do this (link)

🧲 Clients: 5 ways to attract clients that don’t suck (link)