If you’ve played any kind of sport, learned an instrument, or any skill, really - you already know practice is essential to the process. If you miss a week at the gym, you absolutely feel it. As a freelancer, or business owner, it not only helps to hone your skills and techniques, but it also helps to build a strong portfolio and network of clients.

I’ve been working a lot. Don’t mistake this admission for a #humblebrag - it’s actually self-criticism.

In the process of becoming more efficient, yet also more in tune with myself as a creative, I realized in being freelance, I’m still holding onto a scarcity mindset and it’s making my work way harder than it has to be. James Clear suggests adopting a growth mindset instead, that it can lead to greater success and well-being in the long term, as it allows individuals to embrace challenges and setbacks as opportunities for learning and growth rather than as failures.

So, at the top of my resolutions for the new year is making changes to my work/life mindset, and I’m offering a few ways I’ll be using to make the change.