In this lesson I will talk about equipment and tools of trade, what you need to start the freelance carrier. Now the way I see it, there are two types of people and it's up to you which one you are. The smaller amount of people, as far as my experience tells me are the ones who when they are starting out a new business or a new hobby are gathering a lot of tools spending a lot of money on resources, because this is keeping them motivated. And they say okay, I spent a lot of money on these tools. So I will stick to this. I will do this.

Let's say like running people are asking me okay you are a runner. What shoe should I buy? Should I buy this shoe for $200 and I say no. Go into a cheap store and get a $10 shoe or a $20 shoe. Run for a month. If after a month, every time like three times a week.

You are running You feel that you will stick to it, then buy the shoe you really need. Start up small and build it up. Don't blow your money on everything. This is the second mindset you can have start small build up all the equipment on the way. A lot of people tell themselves Yeah, I'm the first time I put a lot of money into something new Africa mental for new sport equipments or business equipments or buying a new laptop or camera or whatever. And this keeps me motivated.

But I mind you. It's only true for a very small percentage of people. And most of us is not like that. How many times it has happened to you that you wanted to start a new home, maybe you went straight on and bought everything for it. And then you just dropped it after a month or after two weeks. And you kept telling yourself for half a year that you will go back and do it.

Did this happen to you? Then the sad truth is that you are not been to this group of people who can motivate themselves by buying a lot of stuff and to be honest It's a it's a gamble. I only know very few people who can do this. It's a gamble because who knows if you're gonna stick to this, who knows it's gonna work out. Okay? We the freelance lifestyle, it's a bad decision, but it's not good to run into buying equipment headfirst I still say, first of the reasons not to do this and build up equipment with time is what I already said, start with the minimum, start with the absolute necessary and be realistic about it and know the difference between what is the ideal, what would be amazing to have what is the optimal and what is the absolutely necessary and start out with the absolutely necessary tools.

And my second reason to go with this way of buying equipment is that you have to spare up I will talk about it soon. You have to spare some money in the start, because you don't know how business is going. And if you blow all your money in the start for equipment that's not good in the long run. Sometimes people not sometimes a lot of times People are holding themselves back because they are full of fear. They are afraid that they will fail as a freelancer This is what I talked about in the previous lesson, let yourself fail in the process, being afraid, they are postponing things. I will start my freelancing after January 1, I will start my training next September so I have a year now started today why to postpone and a lot of people are postponing things because they say I don't have enough money to start I need to design this proper equipment.

And they push themselves off. I was I was talking to a designer. He was quite okay. No, he was he was talented. And he said, Oh, I wish I could draw figures like you but I'm still waiting. I was like, What are you waiting for man?

I'm waiting to buy this Japanese marker set. You know, it's like $500 it's proper Japanese marker set and if I have the markers, I will start my design. And I was like, you know what I use I use a pencil and a $2 mark. Great equipment is helping you become great but it's not absolutely necessary. So don't lie to yourself be realistic. When you create the equipment list you need Mark everything.

What is absolutely necessary to start my job and what is an extra would be nice to have for later on.