When you are in survival mode, you are focusing only on short term decisions and short term goals. You are making very fast decisions. And the decision is usually how much I should work and you're usually stuck into working a lot. If you don't take care about it, you stuck in the same cycle you were in, when you were an employee. You just work and you go home, collapse, get up, work again, doesn't work. This is not life.
This is work. I know there has to be big goals. Like Now, I know how much I would like to earn to support my family. That's that's a very noble goal. But working my life away is not a choice. Leave your life, not just work.
That's why I say thrive, don't survive. Use the money you earn and use it well. Make your own cash flow and know how much you can spend each month on yourself and your family and on your well being. It's very important. If you want life work balance, that's it. Don't switch to survival mode.
On the long term, it's not gonna work. Enjoy your freedom. Put the fleet in Freelancer that means that you are there for a reason. Remember, what was your reason? Why did you start freelancing in for your goal and live by your values? Pick your own clients freely and let go of bad clients and bad situations.
You should always make a reality check. Accept ownership of your own failures, accept ownership of the problems you created. What I said before if all your clients are bad clients, it's maybe the problem is not with the client. It may be that the problem is with you. Then make a reality check and check yourself why Am I doing wrong? What should I change?
Take some time off and do a reality check. How do I know this? Why I talk so much about it. I was in survival mode for a while. I was creating websites, the design part and front end developing. And I was doing it a lot.
And I was just working and working and working and working. got paid okay, but I didn't leave it. I didn't leave the freelance life. I stuck into work mode and survival mode. And once I get very upset at the client, and they realized, am I upset at the client? Or am I upset at myself because I'm doing the same mistake and the same job again and again and again.
I made a reality check. And I was honest with myself and I decided after almost eight years of front end developing I will leave that and no focus on illustration and logo design, which I love. And this is what I did. And that gave me the freedom to work on what I read. Like so switch off your survival mode and focus on your life. create the life you deserve, create the life you really want.
If you want to travel around the world if you want settle down and have family, it's up to you. Don't survive thrive.