Common Craft is fast becoming one of my favorite blog subscriptions. Their blog is full of entertaining how-to-do-its and just good, common sense advice on a variety of topics. Today’s blog was called Classic Lesson Being Small and Happy. I was surprised to see they used a fishing story to bring their point home.

My last blog post used a fishing story as an example of measuring success, that you don’t need a big system to be successful at freelance. Of course it’s normal to want your freelance business to grow, but how big do you have to be before you feel successful? The Common Craft blog post gives us all a reminder to keep our idea of success in line with our happiness.

I believe that one of the most important roads to success in freelance is defining your business model and staying true to it. “Plan your work and work your plan”. Don’t be manipulated into going into deeper waters until you’re ready and sure you can navigate through the currents and waves. And be sure you don’t go so deep that you can’t get back to solid ground when you need to.

Anyway, the story at Common Craft does a far better job of making the point than I can. Click the link above and enjoy.

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