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Freelancers, like their artist and writer predecessors, such as Vincent Van Gogh or Virginia Woolf, may be prone to depression, starving, and self-obsessing. To combat the freelancer blues, you need to schedule some sunshine into your calendar.

Here is a list to save your mind, body and soul from the snake pit.

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As a freelancer, modesty will get you little. Unremitting self-promoters need only apply.

Expressing inadequacy or uncertainty can cost you precious time and money. Clients just want their job done. All they want to know is that you can do it. And you can!

We all have different levels of self-confidence and this changes throughout our lives. With age and experience, people tend to gain more confidence.  Here are seven tips to help you excel now.

1) Visualize success. If you look at a map, yet have no destination in mind, how can you chart your course? Spend time regularly envisioning your ideal career situation so that you can figure out what steps you need to take to get there.

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Your international freelancing dream just came true.

Your Dublin underground music blog vibrated with Rolling Stone and now they want to send you on tour with U2 in Japan. Your underwater photographs of Sweetpea the alligator excited National Geographic and now you’re on your way to Easter Island for a month. Your Bollywood gossip column has Entertainment Tonight calling to arrange an on-air interview in Hollywood tomorrow!

You may be good at what you do as a freelancer, but how good are you at international traveling?

Voyaging ever since I was a glint in my father’s eye, I’m here to tell you some career-saving international travel tips. Continue Reading