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What is a freelancer?
A freelancer is a self-employed person who does work in one or more of a number of professions. The most common freelancer professions are writing, editing, photography, web design, graphic arts and computer programming. Rather than being an employee for a business, freelancers sell or contract their work to their clients. This article considers the challenges that freelancers face and helps you make the decision as to whether freelancing is for you or not.
Working as a freelancer seems like the ideal opportunity – flexible hours, good pay, the opportunity to fit your career in around your other commitments (rather than vice versa, as is often the case). But there are considerations that you should take into account before making the decision to go freelance.
Why work as a freelancer?
Most of us have thought at some point that freelancing would be a great opportunity – usually on a cold, wet Monday morning. No travelling to work on a crowded bus or sitting in traffic; no boss shouting in your ear telling you what to do; in fact, no need to get off the couch until midday.
Freelancing does come with a large number of benefits but it isn’t an easy option. You need to consider why you want to be a freelancer.
Good reasons for freelancing include:
Family commitments – if you’re caring for another person such as a child or elderly relatives which makes it impossible to work regular hours, freelancing will save you the journey to and from part time work, and allow you to be flexible with your time
Extra income – if you’ve already got a job but it doesn’t pay well and you have at least 3-4 hours a week you could devote to earning extra money, freelancing will allow you to earn that extra income whilst keeping your existing job.
In addition to looking at your motives, you may want to consider the following issues:
Tax breaks
As a freelancer you’ll be self-employed and so working from home means that you can claim a fair proportion of expenses against any tax liability. For example, if you use a room in your house you may be able to claim a proportion of cleaning, mortgage interest, council tax and home insurance costs against your tax bill, provided that an area of the home is solely in business use for a significant amount of time.
Flexible Working
If you already have a job and you’re in the UK, your employer may be under an obligation to consider allowing you to work flexitime (they do not have to grant this request, however).
Discipline
Do you find it easy to concentrate on a project? Or are you quickly distracted by chatter, the television, magazines, children or other things that surround you? Freelancing from home requires discipline – the ability to shut out all distractions and concentrate on the job in hand. If you’re not particularly disciplined, you’ll find that in the absence of your boss to keep an eye on you, your attention is diverted by the constant stream of chores and distractions that keep you away from the computer.
Solitude
If you enjoy the company of your associates at work, freelancing at home may come as a bit of a shock. Freelancers don’t have the chatter and bustle of a busy office – which can be an advantage, in terms of concentration, but it can also make for a rather lonely existence during work hours. If you love the company you get at work and need to have people around you, freelancing might not be for you.
If you’re still considering freelancing as an option, think about how in your life you can replace the interaction you’d get from work. If you have a partner, don’t rely on them to be your entire social network when they come home from work every day – you’ll have no experiences to share and little to talk about. Join a gym, a class or a group so you have the circle of friends that you would have had as an employee.
Space
Don’t be fooled into thinking you can work at home in the living room if you have two lively toddlers around you in the day. Neither is the cold garage, the windowless attic or the cluttered box room a good environment for home working. You need a comfortably heated, well-lit, tidy room that you can organise your belongings in, free from (the majority of) interruptions. Granted that if you don’t have that space, you may have to improvise but the important thing is that you have some space to yourself that is comfortable, practical and sufficient to allow you to arrange your books, journals and notes without them being covered in coffee stains or used for drawing paper. It is also highly advisable not to use a bedroom or living room because you’ll have nowhere to relax when you’re finished and you’ll end up feeling like you’re at work every minute of the day.
Time Management
One of the most difficult aspects of freelancing at home is time management. Freelancers often choose to work at home so they can fit their work around their life – but this very thing makes freelancing a challenge. It is necessary to draw a line between work time and leisure time, setting aside certain parts of the day for working and certain parts to deal with other commitments. If no line is drawn, you’ll find little errands: ‘making the kids a snack’, ‘running to the shops’, ‘checking your emails’, take up a huge portion of the day. The answer is to create a routine for your freelance work: have the same portions of the day set aside for work, plan reasonable breaks and stick to the planned finishing time. Turn off your mobile if you can, or have a separate number for work and for private calls. Don’t forget that you do need to take regular breaks from your screen for the sake of your health.
Support Team
Whilst you may be considering freelancing so that you can support others, having your own support team is vital to the success of your lifestyle choice. Firstly, family and friends need to understand your decision and know that you aren’t always available for a chat or to go for lunch. Secondly, you need to appreciate that freelancing at home is still a job and if your children get sick and you don’t have any help, you’ll have to sacrifice your work time for your other commitments. Like any other job, if you don’t work, you don’t get paid. So consider building in advance a ’support team’ – people who can help when things go wrong. It’s especially useful as a parent if you have back-up people to collect children from school or nurse them when they’re ill. The better your support team as a working parent or carer, the more chance you have of making this succeed.
No work?
One final, but vital, consideration for those considering freelancing full time. Can you afford to sustain yourself if there’s no work available? Many freelance opportunities are seasonal and you may find during the off-peak times that work is thin on the ground. If you need a regular, reliable income, you may be better off freelancing part time and working part or full time.
So your having a hard time finding work right? Unfortunately you and another 650,000 people will have that same problem by the end of this month. I know it really sucks and you might feel like a loser but don’t. Your not a loser and its not the end of the world. The internet provides you with a tremendous opportunity to make a lot of money quickly.
So here is what you need to do to get out of that rut and start making money online by tomorrow. When it comes to making money, online or off, the key is to solve problems. When you solve problems the money will never stop flowing in.
Every day millions of people flock to Google and other search engines looking for solutions to their problems. Just last month 165,000 people typed in the exact keywords “how to lose weight fast” in Google. Now since the key to making money online is solving problems, why not do a little research and create a short 6-15 page report showing people how to lose weight fast? You could make so much money.
When it comes to providing solutions, the easiest way to deliver is via a short report. Why? Well for one a short report can be instantly downloaded once a customer makes a purchase and two it costs you no money to put it together. You can go to MS word and pump out a short report in as little as an hour.
Lets say you put together a short report showing people how to drop 20 lbs in 14 days. Once you finish it you would need to set up a simple website using a free service like Weebly and then start generating traffic so you can make money.
Now lets just say 1% of the 165,000 people searching for ways to lose weight fast purchase your short report. Thats 1650 people. If you price your report at just $5 you would make over $8000. Not bad. What could you do with an extra $8000 every month? A whole lot I’m sure.
You don’t have to focus on the weight loss market, I just used that as an example. You can write short reports about anything. As long as you are solving peoples problems you will make money.
Please understand that this will take work. You will have to put in some time and effort but it will surely pay off once you see the money being deposited into your paypal account everyday.
I don’t think there is any feeling worse then needing money. It just really sucks when you can’t pay your bills on time, your bank account is overdrawn and you have no idea how your going to afford to put gas in your car to make it to work the next day. Been there, done that so I know what your going through. But not to worry, with this article I am going to show you a simple method can bring in $1000 in 24 hours or less online.
Now by simple I don’t mean there will be no work involved. Quite the opposite. There is work involved, so if you are looking for a quick fix that requires no work on your part then I can’t help you. But if your looking for a proven step by step system that you can use to bring in money whenever you want, then read on.
The most important thing you need to understand here is if you really need money fast you will have to take massive action. No excuses. They will lead you to absolutely no where. So take what you learn in this article and put it to use.
OK, so this is how you can make money online fast. First thing you need to do is find a problem that needs to be solved. People get online everyday looking for solutions to their problems. If you can provide them with a solution you will make money.
Some great examples of problems that people have are loosing weight, getting rid of acne, stopping snoring, curing yeast infection and the list goes on and on. Everyone of those are very profitable markets. Let’s say you chose to focus on loosing weight. As you know millions of people get online everyday looking for ways to drop weight fast.
If you can put together a short 6-10 page report showing them how to do that you will make a ton of money. Information products sell like crazy online. They are easy to put together and the profit margin is huge. You can sell your short report for just $5 and sell just 200 copies to make $1000.
Stop saying you can’t do this because you can. Would you rather go look for a second job or would your rather write a simple short report that can be making you money years from now? I would go with option B.
Remember, you can write your short report about anything. Just make sure it solves a problem. Just think about all of the things you know how to do and come up with a short report. Don’t over think it or make it harder then it has to be. Your goal is to get your short report online so you can start making money as quickly as possible.
Almost everyone knows by now that smoking is not the healthiest thing to do, but do you know why smoking is bad for the lungs? The answer is actually very simple Each time you take a puff on your smoke, your lungs fill up with toxic chemicals, tar, and nicotine from your cigarette. And this is only one of the reasons why smoking is bad for you.
And regrettably, most of the toxic junk stays in your lungs after you exhale. In fact, more than 60 percent of these toxins stay in your lungs after you exhale. And over time, these toxins build up inside your lungs. And this is the second reason why smoking is bad for the lungs.
Excluding your brain, your lungs are the most delicate organ in your body. If your lungs are healthy, there are thousands of minute air chambers and passage ways. Each time you take a breath, life giving oxygen is pulled into your lungs. After entering the lungs, oxygen is passed to the red blood that are coursing through your blood stream in exchange for carbon dioxide. When you exhale, this waste carbon dioxide is expelled from your system. This is the process of breathing and it takes place over 17,000 times each day.
In order to complete this process, the minute air chambers in your lungs must be kept clear and free of impurities and sediments that can block the minuscule air passages and hamper the oxygen/carbon dioxide exchange. In order to keep the chambers clear, your lungs contain a lot of of minute hair like stalks called cilia. The cilia clear your lungs by constantly sweeping impurities and waste out of the passage ways to clear your lungs and keep them clear.
Each time you inhale on a cigarette, noxious substances and chemicals are drawn into your lungs. If you just smoke the occassional cigarette, the cilia can easily clear your lungs. But if you chain smoke, the cilia will not work as designed and can no longer clear your lungs as they were intended to do. Over time, more and more of the tiny cilia are impaired, this makes the cleaning process even more difficult. Over time, toxins from cigarette smoke start to seal the tiny air passages.
Because there are fewer healthy cilia, they are no longer able to clear your lungs. So your body resorts to an alternative process in an attempt to clear your lungs; a cough. This smokers cough is your body’s way of assisting the cilia to keep yopur lungs clear.
So, what are your options if have an awful cough? The solution is really quite simple. You should help your body clear your lungs. You can do this by using a simple combination of food supplements and vitamins that whisk the toxins out of your lungs and flush them out of your system. This simple technique will clear your lungs fifteen to twenty times faster than your body can clean them on its own. If you are still smoking, its important to Clear your Lungs!
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In Asia, due to the hot and humid weather conditions, we are more vulnerable to skin problems like acne and pigmentation. Our constant exposure to the heat and UV rays could result in excess of melanin production.
Also, in the environment that we are in, there are free radicals around and harmful pollution and the UV rays that are damaging to our skin. As we age, our level of skin metabolism rate reduces and we are exposed to skin problems like fine lines, wrinkles, dull complexions, enlarge pores, dark spots and pigmentation problems. DR’s Secret products contains ingredients that helps to oxidize stressors, limit the effects of the sun damage by inhibiting the melanin production thereby reversing the signs of skin aging.
A youthful and radiant skin complexion can be achieved if we adopt a comprehensive and effective regime in taking care of our skin by using products that are formulated with the latest technologies in dermatology and nutritional science. Doing so, you will be pleased with the outcome.
There has been a lot of skincare brands that are available in the market like famous brands like SKII, Dermalogica, Fancl, Lancome, La Mier. These cosmetics brand do have their own properties of doing a good job in helping to maintain your skin for those of you who generally have a good skin complexion and do not experience skin problems like breakouts of acne, pimples and pigmentation. If you experience much serious conditions such as acne, pimples, pigmentation, a good option will be for you to consider DRs Secret in helping to treat your conditions. The products penetrates deep into our skin to stimulate microexfoliation at the surface layers of our skin and promote renewal of new skin cells.
The ingredients used for Dr’s Secret are made of natural products such as Vitamin A, C and E and Idebenone. Idebenone is known to be one of the most potent antioxidants that effectively help to counter problems like skin aging, helping to stimulate collagen and elastin production that will help to reduce fine lines, wrinkles and smoothen your skin and give a youthful and radiant skin complexion.
Many people who overeat do so to fill in the empty time when they are bored, or they are using food to fill their emotional hunger. The pain of loneliness, the itch of frustration or the adrenaline-burst of anger can be suppressed by filling up with food.
And it’s better to do that, we reason, than turn our feelings inwards and hurt ourselves or turn the feelings outwards and hurt others. So food becomes a drug to suppress feelings and all the feelings turn to fat.
Even though we know it doesn’t really work, we still do it.
At the end of the overeating binge, our feelings are still there. They may for a short while be lying sulking in the corner, temporarily subdued by the food. But because physical hunger wasn’t the question, physical food is not the answer.
And the food we choose to do this is so, so “bad”. Whatever your comfort food is, I can pretty much guarantee it’s not broccoli. We eat high fat/sugar goodies when we are feeling down emotionally. That makes us feel down physically and it makes us feel guilty!
So we can then feel yuk and bad/sad/mad all at the same time!
So how can you deal with this? In the Food & Joy Coaching Process I talk about having awareness – the first stage of tackling this is to be aware that you are doing it.
Then choosing a time when you are not emotionally hungry, dare to dream.
Dream of eating wonderful, nutritious foods that will fill you with vitamins, minerals and all the other goodies you need for good health.
Dare to dream of all the crispy crunchy salady stuff you could eat and experience the fresh cleansing feeling of eating this food. Feel the crunchiness, smell the crispness and freshness of this food.
Dare to dream of effortlessly making choices that will support your physical body and nourish your soul. See a huge buffet of food in front of you with lots of healthy foods to choose from and you are free to pile your plate high with them. And you know that these foods will nourish and sustain you.
Dare to dream that you are the kind of person who loves food and always knows how to choose the best for your body. So you see yourself choosing food that your body is going to love – you can feel the energy that you will have after eating this food.
Dare to dream of the lightness you will feel when you have made these food choices. You have eaten your fill but are not overfull. You have eaten foods bursting with goodness and the cells of your body have been nourished without being overfed with calories.
Do this every day and if you make this dream as vivid as possible you can eat what you want because what you want will be the most healthy, life-giving food on the planet.
Health and happiness to you!
Losing weight does not have to be a chore as most people take it to be. If you can get a weight loss program that is fun, you will enjoy yourself while losing weight in the process. This will also give you the drive not to give up but rather to stay focus on your goal. You see the mistake most people make is to start a program but stopping half way through. This is the worse thing you could ever do. Imagine several months down the line you are looking back and then asking yourself why didn’t you continue with the program. That can be very depressing because you may have reached your goal had you not gave up.
My aim today is not to discourage you but rather to give you some weight loss tips and advice that you can apply to your lifestyle to get an amazing body. So follow the tips below to get rid of your belly bulge to get the body you truly deserve.
Tip #1- Don’t eat late at nights- Try to avoid as much as possible eating late in the evenings. You want your food to be almost digested when you are going to bed. Otherwise you undigested food can be easily converted to fat and stored around your organs.
Tip #2- Do so cardiovascular exercises on a regular basis. This does not have to be strenuous exercises but you need a workout that will get your heart pumping fast to speed up your metabolism so you can burn fat faster.
Tip #3- Do abdominal exercises- While dieting is good to lose weight, you will need to do targeted abdominal exercises to tighten your abs so you can have a flat midsection.
Tip #4- Stay focus on your goal and think about it as fun. Make it something you love and you will find that it is not as hard as you think.
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