{"id":3327,"date":"2023-08-02T14:13:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T14:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.annika-zang.com\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2024-02-26T10:46:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T10:46:28","slug":"6-ways-to-replenish-your-energy-and-creativity-as-a-freelancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annika-zang.com\/en\/6-ways-to-replenish-your-energy-and-creativity-as-a-freelancer\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Ways To Replenish Your Energy & Creativity as a Freelancer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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6 Ways To Replenish Your Creativity And Energy As A Freelancer<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Summary: Staying balanced as a freelancer is key: If we thrive, our business thrives. However, motivation and energy come in cycles, and slumps are a natural part of that. In this article, I’m going to share 6 things I did in the last 6 weeks that have helped me replenish my creativity, energy and motivation as a freelancer.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Being a freelancer comes with a lot of ups and downs: Fluctuating workloads and irregular working hours can really take a toll on you, and it’s completely normal that we can’t feel our best at all times.<\/p>

I\u2019ll be honest with you \u2013 In the past couple of weeks, I also found myself in a pretty deep creative and motivational slump. I struggled to concentrate on my work and coming up with new language content wasn\u2019t flowing as much as it used to. So I took some measures to get back on track. Here are 6 things that have helped me feel motivated, energized and abundant again:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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When I was struggling with motivation, concentration and creativity, my first thought was that I needed to take a break, change my habits or do something differently than usual.<\/p>\n

But when I took a closer look and asked myself: Since when have I been feeling this way and what happened in my life during that time? \u2013 I could suddenly see that the problem was not that I was doing something wrong, but that I was trying to change things without really knowing the cause of why I was feeling this way.<\/i><\/p>\n

Zooming out and analyzing since when I’ve been feeling demotivated, I saw that there were two changes in my life happening simultaneously to my decrease in energy: My translation workload was lower than usual, and, at the same time, I increased my content rhythm on social media. And I did a lot of things out of my comfort zone (I posted videos of myself online \u2013 veeeery scary!). These two things combined caused me a lot of discomfort, left me feeling anxious and eventually blocked my energy.<\/p>\n

But once I realized that this might be the reason for how I feel, I already felt a huge relief. Because now I knew what\u2019s going on, I could name it and take the right measures.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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If you\u2019re like me, you\u2019re way too interested in too many things, and you want to do everything at once. And the thing is: I love all the things I\u2019m doing! I love writing, I love language learning, I love exercising. But shifting from one thing to another is exhausting for your mind. Because it always works with 10 open tabs, switching to a different one while actually doing something else.<\/p>

Believe me: Subtracting things from your routine can sometimes be harder than staying disciplined. Especially as a freelancer, as we\u2019re used to working on several things a time: Our mind sometimes confuses doing less<\/i> with not doing enough<\/i> for your business.<\/p>

So, when I was on vacation, I set myself the goal to subtract things from my schedule: No writing, no reaching out to new clients, no language learning \u2013 even though it was tempting to get some things done now that I had some more time. I just took a book with me and the only thing on my to-do-list was to read that book.<\/p>

By going somewhere and only bringing one thing to do, that conversation in my head whether I should do more didn\u2019t even come up. And but shutting down that conversation, my mind was emptier \u2013 and if your mind is empty, you\u2019re making space for fresh motivation and inspiration.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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As I’ve just said, one of my problems used to be that I often felt I wasn\u2019t doing enough. When I took less time to complete a job, I would look for something else to do: Making some changes to my website, writing a new article, searching for some new photos, learning some new words.<\/p>

But it never felt like enough. And that was my problem: I didn\u2019t know what \u201cenough\u201d even meant<\/b>.<\/p>

You know, building a business is different than, let\u2019s say, studying for a degree. When you\u2019re a student, you\u2019ve given a certain precise schedule. You\u2019re thrown into a group of fellow students that aim for the same thing. You\u2019re handed all the material you need to know in order to graduate. You have a set framework, and if you\u2019re making an effort and follow along, you\u2019ll be certain that you\u2019ll graduate.<\/p>

Being a freelancer is different. Sometimes, you don\u2019t have anyone in your life who has the same goal. Nobody gives you the exact steps you have to take, and nobody guarantees you that it\u2019s going to be worth it, there\u2019s no teacher who gives you feedback. Maybe you\u2019ve been putting your energy into something that\u2019s not going to lead anywhere. And you know, this can be scary. It can feel like you\u2019re alone in the dark without even knowing if there\u2019s an end.<\/p>

See, in order to make it as a freelancer, you need to know where you\u2019re going. And I personally lost sight of the way at a point. I was writing my blog and managing my social media, but I got no feedback whatsoever if I was doing a good job. Or if what I was doing was eventually going to pay off. If you do something without knowing that you’re on the way towards a specific goal, you may tell your mind: Let\u2019s do this! Let’s sit down, reach out to another client and write another text! But your mind secretly won\u2019t believe it\u2019s worth the effort and will sabotage you.\u00a0<\/p>

So, becoming more clear about where I want to go,\u00a0 for example how much I would like to earn each week, and which steps I had to take to achieve that, helped me define my \u201cenough\u201d \u2013 and this really applies to language learning, building a business and any other project equally.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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4. Connect With Fellow Freelancers<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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I really underestimated how important it is to talk to people who share your struggles. And lately, I noticed that I have very few fellow freelancers in my immediate environment. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019m very lucky to have friends who I can talk to \u2013 but, you know, sometimes, we need someone who knows exactl<\/i>y what\u2019s going on.<\/p>

So, last week, I scheduled a \u201clesson\u201d with my Serbian teacher Lellah, who\u2019s also a freelancer. She\u2019s more a friend than a teacher and, to be honest, I didn\u2019t call her to learn Serbian \u2013 I just like her positive energy and enjoy talking to her. And really, I haven\u2019t felt that understood in a long time. Having someone telling you: “I know how you feel. I experienced the exact same thing last year. It\u2019s going to pass.” is priceless.<\/p>

Talking to someone who listened, understood and didn\u2019t suggest me solutions on how to get out of that situation \u2013 because sometimes, there is none \u2013 is sometimes really all you need.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Meditation and yoga have been a game changer for a long period of time. But especially in the last past weeks, I\u2019ve noticed how setting some time apart for some yoga and meditation \u2013 even if I didn\u2019t feel like it \u2013 really lowered my anxiety level and increased my focus.<\/p>

If you\u2019re breathing and moving slow, you\u2019re sending signs to your mind to slow down, and by that, you\u2019re tricking your mind into thinking that there\u2019s no danger, nothing to feel anxious about.<\/p>

You don\u2019t have to be athletic or flexible to do yoga. Actually, yoga is not about exercising, but rather about what\u2019s going on on the inside. And that\u2019s the beautiful thing: It\u2019s an activity you can do without the pressure of having to be good at it.<\/p>

I got started with yoga back when I was living in Uruguay in 2019, thanks to the amazing Youtube channel Yoga with Adriene. She\u2019s a yoga teacher who creates, among others, 30-day-challenges that are designed to introduce you into yoga. Even I \u2013 a complete beginner a the time \u2013 could do it, and that\u2019s how I started. And as it takes about 30 days to build a new habit, this is a great way to try if it’s something you might be able to incorporate in the long run.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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F<\/strong>ocus is the enemy of anxiety.<\/b><\/p>

So, what\u2019s helping me a lot lately is putting my phone on flight mode and engaging in one activity a time: Reading a book for half an hour, learning some Serbian or Turkish, or writing texts for my website or for social media.\u00a0<\/p>

A<\/strong>ll of these are activities that bring me joy, value, inspiration or clarity, while at the same time forcing me to focus.<\/b><\/p>

As I\u2019m writing this article, I\u2019ve been focussing for around 2 hours in 15-minute intervals. I realized that sometimes, the problem is not that we have too much work. The problem is often that we have too many different tasks or tasks we don\u2019t like, and engage too little in activities that bring us joy and get us into a flow state.<\/p>

See, each time I’m in a motivational or creative slump, I learn something new about myself, and eventually, this is what’s building resilience in the long run.<\/p>

This time, for example, I really learned that language learning and writing are not just a hobby. Instead, they can be an important tool for me to stay level-headed, lower my anxiety and calm my mind down.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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What I learned in these past weeks is this:
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