“Free” is the reason why many of us have burned out.
Those of us who started doing what we LOVE and feel so passionate about what we do that we’d jump out of bed the morning and look forward to Mondays (oh who am I kidding, most of us don’t care about weekends we just work right through)… after a while we feel that energy and passion sucked right out from our hearts because of a few rogue energy vampires who lure us into giving free consulting in the name of doing what we love.
So unless there is a very clear benefit in this time-for-energy tradeoff, or when I know the risks I am taking – I would never ever do free again.
