As a freelancer, do you ever feel like you’re not good enough?

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You know that your work is good, but sometimes you feel like you just aren’t offering enough value to your clients.

This can affect your business in a number of ways.

For a start, you are undercharging. You know there are people out there charging more than you, but maybe it’s because they have more experience or more skills, they work faster and do a better job — they’re worth more. You’re just not good enough to raise your prices.

Secondly, whenever someone is just shopping around, you are very hesitant to promote yourself over your competitors. Maybe someone else really could do a better job! Who you to tell them to come to you? You know you can do a great job, but maybe they could get something far better with someone else.

And finally, when a client does come along with a complaint, you accept it as the truth and take responsibility to fix it, usually at your own expense. If they don’t like the work you did, it’s just further proof that you just aren’t good enough.

Stop.

Just stop.

The ONLY reason why you feel like you’re not good enough is because you lack the confidence in yourself. Look back at the previous work you’ve done. Are you satisfied with it? Do you feel you did a great…