Going legal and being legal as a freelancer, it's very important. I'm not talking about like, we are criminals here and we want to do legal work. I mean, you want to be covered. You want to pay your taxes, you want to work legally, you want to be accepted as a company or a sole trader or a freelancer. Make your one man company or woman show legal. If you don't know how, get an accountant, ask someone who knows.

So get an accountant and be legal. Have a contract, have a blank contract ready and have a blank invoice ready, which you just have to write the names of the clients and the data of the project. And you can hand it out fastly have a blank price coat and a blank pitch ready for your client. I will attach this document or very simple But once to the lesson, and you can check out yourself. It doesn't have to be anything fancy. It is just so simple.

Being legal is protecting you. It is helping you to pay your taxes. It is helping you to have a better bond with your clients. Because it's better to have a written agreement or a small contract than not having anything to back you up if things go south. What I say have a few blank documents already. When you are creative like me, you might hate this stuff.

But you have to cover yourself. Doing your company legally means one very important thing. When you are a freelancer, things are happening fast. Things are changing fast. Clients are coming and going money is coming and going. It's not an easy task.

Do yourself a favor and get prepared. Get your legal documents ready. So cover yourself What I always say, I don't like surprises. I mean, I love cakes and parties, but I don't like to be surprised in a bad way. Imagine you are getting a lot of money from clients and you think everything is alright, then the tax company is calling you and checking on you. That's a very bad surprise.

Believe me, you don't want that. So cover yourself up. If you don't know all of these get help. Don't assume things will work out right? without doing anything legally, they won't. So if you don't know how to start your company legally, go check it out.

Now. Google it, what are the rules in your country, talk to other freelancers who are already successful and can help you or the easiest. Get an accountant. Even just sitting down with an accountant. This is what I did two years ago, when I came back to my own country to Hungary. I sit down with an accountant they're checking on Okay, what are the changes in the time I was living abroad?

What to do differently here again, what are the possibilities? It was just a one time fee but she helped me so much to realize what I should do. So going legal is very important. Avoid the surprises.