It's okay for freelancers to feel "anxious."

I think I started my business with the courage and momentum of youth. I thought at the time that it was better to fail early, that it would be easier to find a job if I absolutely had to, and that it would be easier to plan my life.


If it didn't work out at all after three years, I'd just get a job again. I had a lighthearted attitude, thinking that since there's a labor shortage in Japan, I could work somewhere as long as I wasn't too picky.

Come to think of it, three years have passed before I knew it.

That was fast.

Since I decided to live in Tokyo when I started my business, I didn't have any acquaintances or relatives there, so if you ask me if I was scared, I was.

I had no work. I had no backing. I had no acquaintances. A young girl coming out to the big city, and even though I knew I was the one who decided everything, there were many times when I felt anxious.

At least the language was the same, which was good. I could say what I wanted to say. That's why I truly respect people who live abroad.


I was anxious about many things at that time, but looking back, I think that "anxiety" was a good thing.

If I didn't do anything, I could see that everything would end, so I had to act; there was no option not to.

If I didn't move, things would just come to an end, so I couldn't afford to be laid back.

Of course, there were many things that didn't go well during that time, and I cried and laughed, but I think I was saved by acting on my own instead of staying in a lukewarm environment and becoming a boiled frog.

It was good that I learned about society as a company employee, but there were things I was tested on and knowledge I gained by becoming independent.


Anxiety, dissatisfaction, and other such negative emotions are often seen as "bad things," but that's not the case at all; I think they can be a huge driving force that moves people.


I understand that maintaining the status quo is decline, and since the world is moving forward, if you stand still, you'll end up like Urashima Taro.

But even so, the human bias toward the status quo is powerful, and it is also human nature that many people do not want to change.


Even if there is a little dissatisfaction, if you can make a living, you don't really need to make big changes, right? Change is difficult and stressful.

The feeling of "fear" that freelancers have is normal, and I think it's natural to feel it.

That's why only those who can switch to a mindset of working hard succeed, and if you seek freedom or not being scolded, you won't succeed.

Looking around, I think that even if you can earn a high instantaneous wind speed when things are going well, there are few people who can keep it up for a long time.


Freelancers are free and don't get scolded, which is exactly why they have to be strict with themselves.


If you became a freelancer seeking something, unless you have results and achievements that can put those feelings to rest, the feelings and emotions that led you there will all be in vain.


I thought about things like that, so I think that's why I was able to work hard back then.


If you lose something, you are meant to gain something. But where do you place the point of action? How much of a result you produce is up to you, and since freelancers can also "not put in effort," "negativity" is the number one driving force.


People who look like they aren't putting in much effort but are achieving something either had the strength to begin with, are naturally smart, or have good sense.

Unless that's the case, I think one key point is how far you can work hard using anxiety as a driving force.

Well then, see you tomorrow!