The Best Method For Avoiding "Revision Hell" For The Rest Of Your Life | The Infinite Clients Series

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This is the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, Episode 297

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Hello, and welcome to the 6 Figure Creative Podcast. I'm your host, Brian Hood. If this is your first time ever listening to the show, hi, glad to have you here. Don't know how you found us, but I'm glad you're here. This podcast is for you if you are a freelancer who offers creative services and you want to make more money from those services without selling your soul.

That sounds like you, you're in the right place. For my returning listeners, so glad to have you here still for whatever reason. You've endured this for maybe up to 290 episodes, 297 episodes by now, that's a long time.

If you have listened to all 297 episodes at this point, send me an email, podcastat6figurecreative.com, and just shoot me a note. Say, hey, Brian, I've listed all episodes for whatever reason. Maybe you can list those reasons. I don't know, it'd be helpful for me to know these things. But for today's episode, we're gonna continue the series we've been doing for like, this is probably the fifth episode we've had for this series now called the Infinite Client Series.

It is a impossible concept, but one that is worth exploring and pursuing as freelancers. And if you're new to the series or new to this podcast, it's worth explaining what the Infinite Client's concept is. So you know why we have an entire series on this. Infinite Client's concept is essentially this. How do we create an experience that's so amazing for our clients that every single client that we get refers at least one more client to us? And every single client that we get never leaves us. They always come back to us, or they never cancel if it's on a retainer or whatever. That is the concept of Infinite Clients. If you can do that, you have Infinite Clients. It's impossible for most people to do that. Where literally two clients turn into four clients, four clients turn into eight clients, eight clients turn into 16 clients. You have a viral business at that point. Again, we're striving towards it, and that's what we're gonna continue on the series today. Before I get into the actual topic, I wanna mention we are now in February. I believe this episode still comes out in February, maybe towards the end of it. It's like middle of February right now for me. So question I have for you is, how are you doing on those New Year's goals you created for yourself at the beginning of the year?

I'll give you an update on mine. And the reason I'm talking about this, there's a point to this. A couple of goals that I had were get back down to wedding weight. I got to the highest weight probably ever in my life right at New Year's. I weighed in at 204 pounds, which is the fattest I've ever been in my entire life. I have hit 200 before in bulking season when doing heavyweight lifting, but no, this was just pure middle of the year.

Stopped working out because my friend that I worked out with moved away, let the diet kind of go and just like, and stop. I'm at 190, ooh, that sucks.

195, ooh, I should probably do something about it. 200, all right, let's definitely fix this. And then New Year's Day, weighed in at 203 As of right now, I weigh 189 So I'm back down to a weight that I probably haven't hit since the end of 2022 So that goal is going really well. I still have the nutrition coach. I still am going to the gym. What my friend has called shame workouts, orange theory is what I've been going to.

And my cardio is probably the best it's ever been, just like a month and a half into this. It's pretty crazy. The only reason I'm bringing this up is not to talk about fitness or to shame anyone who's fallen off. It's to bring up a very important fact that is we as individuals, like our personal lives, including health, relationships, friendships, mental health, a lot of mental health can come from either lack thereof physical health or how healthy we are physically because of the self-confidence it brings, et cetera, et cetera. This personal stuff will carry over into your business because I've said this before a billion times in this podcast. Our personal lives are intertwined with our business lives as freelancers in ways that other businesses aren't. When you look at something like Apple, someone like Microsoft, some of these bigger businesses that are out there, or the biggest businesses that are out there, these businesses are made out of thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of employees that make up that business. So any one individual's mental health, physical health, relational health, those things don't really impact the business as a whole. But as a freelancer, if we don't take care of ourselves, we likely won't take care of our business. And if we don't take care of our business, then we won't make money. And if we don't make money, we will likely neglect our personal health even more. It'll likely affect our mental health even more. So that's why I bring this up now. It's not the topic of the day. Maybe we'll have another episode just completely on this topic, but something I wanted to bring up. This is what my nutrition coach says. The goal isn't 100%. The goal isn't perfection. The goal is 90%. If you fall off the wagon, can we get back on? If you've fallen off the wagon, only question is, can you get back on?