“The secret of suc­cess is con­stancy of pur­pose.“
–Anony­mous

I agree that, if one wants to achieve more, the most impor­tant tool for doing so in today’s world is time man­age­ment. The chal­lenge in deal­ing with an inces­santly increas­ing demand on this scarcer com­mod­ity that we call time is preva­lent in our soci­ety. Peo­ple are busier than ever before and seem to never have enough time to do what they really want.

How­ever, if you study truly suc­cess­ful men and women, you will rec­og­nize that they always seem to have lots of time. They live in the moment, are happy and love what they do, and are intrin­si­cally very pro­duc­tive. More­over, they have intense focused con­cen­tra­tion on the task at hand and seem to man­age their time almost instinc­tively. And they do so with pas­sion, zest and fervor.

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Free­lance copy­writ­ers are an inter­est­ing bunch. They prac­tice the art of sales­man­ship in print, yet have dif­fi­culty sell­ing them­selves. They strug­gle when it comes to self-​​promotion.

So instead of being well-​​fed and con­tent, they often go hun­gry. Why is this?

I believe it comes down to three fun­da­men­tal defi­cien­cies. I observed these in myself when I was get­ting started a few years ago. I have con­tin­ued to observe them in other copy­writ­ers who are launch­ing new free­lance careers.

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