Any morning I open the email tray and encounter text orders from new customers ... And I invad the terror.
It has happened to me and daily. Yes, even after so many years and so much letter, I am scared to write for new customers.
I came to ask myself absurd as if I had never presented a written job and it was my first time.
Will I do it well? Will I really be prepared for this? How do this request arrive at me? Who am I to do this?
I do not know myself.
Cari has always told me that I demand a lot to myself. That every time I wear the highest rod, and it is very right.
I am filled with negative thoughts and gaps, many times without remembering that it is something that I always do.
I feel doubts, fear, fear ...
However, we agree that it is normal to feel fear every time you attend
A new customer or a new task. You get alert and activate your adrenaline to assume a new experience.
It is not bad. If it excites you, it is not bad.
Bad is when fear blocks you, in front of the blank screen and immobile hands on the keys.
The imposter syndrome tells this.
A psychological phenomenon whose symptoms are feeling self -subject and disability. In other words, we never feel able to accept what we deserve for our work. That includes recognition, rewards, compliments ... until payment.
I had to investigate and remember how I was overcoming every time, each case to prepare this article and so it is easier to find your security when writing.
How to knock down the inopportune barrier of fear of writing?
The impostor syndrome fills us with insecurity, personal doubts, leads you to procrastine as it also tends towards an infinite perfectionism that does not let you end what you do.
It makes us believe that we are not good enough to write.
Apparently, you can accompany us throughout life, we just have to learn how it starts and how to control it.
Well, it arises in each new professional challenge, in each new task ... it is like the fear of the new unknown. ... Yes, even if you have a lifetime working on the same.
The first times is very rude to overcome and we fall very fast in frustration. But as we advance in the race or trade, you recognize it as a productive fear.
Well, it happened to me.
Why? Because that fear makes me more care with details and quality, awakens creativity and finding new expression formulas.
Of course, like everything else, you have to put a limit, because the opposite can happen. That is, excess care and perfectionism do not let us end the task.
So how do we scare the imposter syndrome?
Trust
To the extent that you know your trade and experience experience, trust will be installed in you.
Well, you have to upload a little more level, and instead of trust, do it yours, you must feel that your trade belongs to you and that no one, but you know how to do it.
Believe it. Trust your criteria and your professionalism.Do not compete
If in your tray you have a job order it is because they chose you to do it. Don't compete with anyone ... just with yourself. So you just have to focus on doing what you already know how to do.Insecurity
I recently reviewed all the issues on which I had to write and I wondered myself where I took this! Since when do I know about such a thing?
We can think that we do not have enough ideas or terms to cover the proposed theme.
And it's normal.
We cannot be specialists of every subject. We only know how to write and communicate. We use tools to investigate, write and edit the texts to adapt them to the requested context.
This is enough to start and recognize you capable of doing the task successfully.
I encourage that not being a specialist of the topic you write gives us a broader vision, another valid point of view to address the issue.
- Get a workshop and work system
Ah! But how? Not that freelancers work whenever they want?
Yes. I work when I want.
And to succeed, I wanted to make a schedule and a system. Because if there is something that sneaks like water between the fingers is time.
Generally, writing works have delivery dates. Quite baggy in my case. That is why I leave them for a week before. It is best to assume them at first and continue working them in stages until concluding.
I know cases of very talented people who have let themselves be dragged by procrastination for counting that freelancers always have time ... and then ask me why I win more than others.
Many times the constancy is more valuable than talent.
If it is hard for you n with yours.
At this particular point, I like to follow several mentors of Copywriting: Javi Pastor, Maïder Tomasena, Rosa Morel ... listening to them is a rush of energy and creativity.
- Better fact than perfect
Once we have already met all the requirements of the client, the text is written and edited ... but a little voice tells you: could it be better? Give it another look ... and after a while the rounds of the do you begin ...?
What if I change this?
What if I better say that?
What if it's very short? ... or out of tune ...
Did you know? You can always do it better. Always ... infinitely.
But you must have a standard, a limit.
It is not about delivering something without finished details. Make a checklist from each point to review of your text, from the grammatical, spelling, the client and SEO guideline. To verify that your work is complete and move on to the next.
Anyway, once delivered and reviewed by the client, there are possibilities to re -edit.
Let us remember, if a customer has already touched your door, he has chosen you to communicate his message and write your texts, it is because he has corroborated in your blog, social networks and portfolio that you are the one who needs to write his texts.
Do not despise yourself or underestimes.
Do what you should do and as you know how to do it.
The rest are self -demands that the impostor in you wants to impose you.
I hope these tips help you scare the fear of writing.
Did you already know them?
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