Hey there Reader,

Light scattered through a prism gets bent and scattered all over a room. It looks pretty, but it's innocuous.

Light concentrated in a laser is so powerful it cuts through a diamond.

When I decided to become a writer, I concentrated intently on learning to write for the Internet, and I still concentrate intently writing today.
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​I believe that if you want something, you focus on it and use every resource in your power to make that thing happen.

These are a few of the questions I've been asked by just one of the students inside the Freelance to Freedom mentorship program this week:

• Some of the companies I found are related to topics I haven’t written about. Would you still pitch them?
• When discussing rate negotiation, can you give advice about what to do if given a rate range? Can we ask for more than that, or would they likely just say no?
• I’m 10 hours into writing this article for X Company for which they are paying me $200, and I’m halfway done. It’s not worth my stress or time at this point and I’m very resentful of the entire project. How bad would it be to tell them I’m not going to finish it? Spending another 5-10 hours on it when I could be researching companies makes my head want to explode.​
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These are great questions, and I love watching students grow.

I'm confident that the woman who asked these questions is going to be making a full-time income in the next several months. (Just so you know, she committed to the $200-dollar article before working with me—I would have advised against that from the start. 🙁)
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The reason I'm so confident about her abilities is that she's fully utilizing the resources inside the coaching program, including my ability to answer her questions and give her advice.

She's laser-focused on her goal.

When things aren't going as well as I think they should, the question I ask myself and my students, is, "Where am I focusing my light?"

Talk soon,

Julie

p.s. I'm looking for 3 people who want to get laser-focused on their writing careers in June. If you're ready to stop searching the job boards for work that pays pennies and find high-paying writing work using a repeatable process, reply with the word "Freelance" and I'll send you the details.