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ARCHIVE FOR Charity Singleton Craig

Redefining Success: Freelancing on the Path to an Alternate Destination

I am a writer with big dreams. A little over a year ago, I quit my full-time job to become a full-time freelancer. I pick up a few editing and marketing jobs on contract to help pay the bills, but I’m pushing hard after the writing career I’ve always dreamed of.

Chasing a big dream for me, however, means struggling with a mindset of “never good enough.” If I am doing the writing I want to do and making the money I need to make, why am I still going after more?