This will be a very short lesson about how to deal with possible projects. So if someone is calling you or sending you a message that hey, I have a job for you. And I will pay you. A lot of people start to jump up and down and do their happy dance because yes, finally, I have a paying client. No, no, no, this is just a possible client with the possible project. We may be you be happy about it, it's great that they found you or you got a referral or somehow they conducted you That's amazing.

Be happy, but don't count on it as a job until the contract is signed, or you get your prepayment, or you get the proper brief though until the project is in motion. Until then it's not hundred percent that you will get a proper job and the payment but aim to make it real aim to make this possible project To a real project, talk to the client, send the prepayment invoice, send the contract, do everything what you can to make the project real. This is your task as well, during a possible client into real client. Everyone is asking me how many people are writing me daily or how many people are asking me for different jobs, I can tell you a lot, a lot. And a lot of them are disappearing. So I made it a habit not to make time for promised big projects.

I don't make my calendar clear because someone said that next week we start working. I will make my calendar clear when they are appearing on my doorstep with a check in hand. So make time only when the contract is signed. And the job is really truly mine. Don't take this as pessimism that I'm not happy about possible project I am. It's just my experience, which tells me that a project is not real until you make it real