Gabriel Iosa

You’ve probably read all the “How to set your goals for the year ahead” articles. Not this one. Please, for your own sake, keep on reading. First of all, 2018 is gone. It was a great year for me and my business, a great year for freelancing and content creation, and a great year for…

Writer’s block is bad. Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me. It jibber-jabbers about jibber jabber. It’s loud, relentless and simply obnoxious. Now, this might seem like a bad idea at first, but it’s not always the case. If you’re a writer, it’s better to have a restless mind, rather than a quiet one. Why?…

Writing for 365 days straight was the craziest thing I’ve ever done. “What if I’d write for a whole year? What if I’d publish an article every day for 365 days straight?” It all started to make sense to me, a year and a few days ago. My blog was going nowhere, my writing career…

Money is always a dilemma for freelancers and small business owners. This year, I’ve started my own freelancing website and serious Upwork profile building on the content creator side of things. Money-wise, everything went great. I can trully say I’m satisfied with this year on this aspect.

First of all, I hate clickbait. It’s simply wrong. This is why I wrote a normal, yet inciting title for this post. I will give you clear instructions on how I write my titles, my good ones, but there’s no clickbait in here. If it were for clickbait, my title would look like this:

32 people I’ve never met in real life. 32 humans I have never had a drink or a chat with before. A bunch of complete strangers changed my life in 2018. They were no members of my family. No friends. Not even close friends, let alone best friends. Some of my best friends have left me behind…

Becoming good at freelancing is no easy task. Like most things in life, getting good at something comes after trial and error. I’m not good with girls, for example, but that’s not because of me, per se, but because I’ve never invested time and effort into learning what to do when you’d ask a girl…

I earned Top Rated status on Upwork. I’ll be honest with you: I’ve never been looking for titles or prizes or diplomas ever in my life. I find them useless for the most part. Yes, I wouldn’t trust a brain surgeon without a diploma, but I’d be fine with a lawyer, a banking specialist, translator,…

Wow! I feel like I deserve a medal. Or at least a parade. Wow, it’s been 300 days since I started this challenge. I remember it as if it was yesterday. I was sitting around the laptop and wondering what would be a great challenge to take on in 2018. With a few days remaining before the…

I’ve never been a morning person. I dreaded waking up for school. The first minutes were hell. The breakfast was tasting like rubbish, regardless of what cereal was in the bowl. The commute was awful, feeling as if it would never end. And the first few classes were always the hardest. I promised myself I…