{"id":46300,"date":"2022-02-17T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T11:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=46300"},"modified":"2022-02-17T11:16:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T11:16:24","slug":"you-dont-need-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/02\/17\/you-dont-need-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"You don’t NEED clients."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Are you a freelancer or a solopreneur?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you in a profession where you depend on a healthy stream of fresh clients, where you have to present fees all the time and defend them and do all kinds of negotiations?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then maybe this post is for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or maybe it\u2019s not (but I am sharing it anyway).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s what I saw recently that totally changed my money game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ready?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You don\u2019t need clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, you DO, in a way, but you don\u2019t really NEED them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference is (if you don\u2019t get it straight away) that if you are in need of clients, you will probably come across as needy, lacking, and, well, powerless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every conversation feels like your life is on the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s all scary and wobbly and highly personal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is not a great place to come from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now compare that to a situation where you know, for a fact, that there are more clients on the planet than you will be able to serve in a dozen lifetimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means you don\u2019t need to win every time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It takes away the somewhat toxic vibration of dependency and urgency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it will, in turn, make you share your fees in an incredibly powerful, confident, and even casual way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I realize this might be a bridge too far for you, or even a couple of bridges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not just a theory that sounds cool and now all you have to do is implement it and you\u2019re good to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a realization that is part of your growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is built on experience, on trial and error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If somebody had told me about this \u2018not really needing a client\u2019 a couple of weeks ago, I had totally recognized the value of the premise, but I wouldn\u2019t have been able to act on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I couldn\u2019t feel it yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when you keep doing what you love doing and do it more and even more, you will start to see truths that will fill you with confidence and trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s something you simply have to earn, and there\u2019s no way around it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I totally, totally get it if this doesn\u2019t sound realistic or doable to you, especially when you are (still) in a place where every client seems to count.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feeling the need and the urgency of winning, can be a psychological burden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It makes you nervous about other people\u2019s responses to your offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It weakens your position in negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that is something we all have to go through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The process of \u2018selling your service\u2019 can be very painful and devastating and confronting and disheartening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It can feel scary and hard and harsh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until, one day, momentum strikes and you realize you will be fine no matter what.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You don\u2019t NEED clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s when you will truly start winning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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