# Write Your Way Out of the Rat Race...And Step Into a Career You Love ![rw-book-cover](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5134nIzeGwL._SL200_.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Linda Formichelli]] - Full Title: Write Your Way Out of the Rat Race...And Step Into a Career You Love - Category: #books ## Highlights - To get your free downloads, visit the bonus page and enter the password makingtheleap. ([Location 92](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00FOSGLVA&location=92)) - A Coach’s Secret Questions I’m going to reveal to you the two questions coaches ask their clients that raise compliance dramatically, and you can use them to make sure you actually follow your business plan once you’ve written it. When and where will you do X? Look into the future and imagine you’re about to do X. If you foresee any obstacles that will keep you from completing your tasks, what can you do now to overcome them? ([Location 128](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00FOSGLVA&location=128)) - For every assignment, write down these two questions and your answers to them. ([Location 140](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00FOSGLVA&location=140)) - But in order to make it as a freelancer, you have to sell yourself to clients. This means sending out letters of introduction, writing queries, making calls, networking on social media and in person, sleuthing out the names and contact info for potential clients, and maintaining a website. ([Location 218](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00FOSGLVA&location=218)) - Only about 15% of what I do is actually writing. The other 85% is marketing, invoicing, researching, interviewing, and other non-writing tasks. ([Location 242](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00FOSGLVA&location=242)) - Writing is one field where talent and business savvy win out over fancy titles and letters after your name. ([Location 305](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00FOSGLVA&location=305)) - Here’s a secret I learned from interviewing a happiness expert several years ago: You don’t take action because you’re motivated—you’re motivated when you take action. ([Location 335](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00FOSGLVA&location=335)) - Think of the worst fear you have when it comes to breaking free of the 9-5 to go it alone as a freelancer. Then, ask yourself, “So what?” It looks like this: “I’m afraid I’ll quit my steady job and won’t be able to make freelancing work.” So what? “I won’t be earning any money, that’s what.” So what? “I’ll have to get another 9-5 job.” So what? “Yeah, it can’t be any worse than the job I have now.” Sometimes this can get quite convoluted, and by the end you’re imagining yourself as a homeless person who’s lost it all. And you know that’s just not going to happen. ([Location 363](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00FOSGLVA&location=363))