You keep taking work you don't want because it pays the bills. Here's what the last contract actually spent.Taking work you don't want feels like the responsible move, because it pays the bills and it funds the business you're building on the side. And it does. But when you price that contract, you probably answer in hours, and hours are the wrong unit. What it really spends is the months your own business could have been moving, and the attention you needed to bring to them. The money arrives with a date and a notification. The months leave without a sound, which is the only reason the deal still looks good.The next video hands you a five-minute check you can run on the last job you accepted:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRmUs0Jma0i00:00 The deal you made0:41 What the work actually pays you1:52 Column one, the money and the runway3:02 Hours are the wrong unit3:39 What divided attention really costs4:28 Five restarts in four months5:38 Why the cost stays invisible6:02 Money arrives loudly, months leave in silence7:23 The question that arrives months too late7:59 The one thing to ask before the next yes9:03 Your old work is the investor in your new one10:29 The money can stay, the terms are yoursI'm Selena Woodward, a business coach who works with women who spent years becoming genuinely good at something and are now building something of their own alongside it. If you'd rather work this out in a room than on your own, The Clarity Shift is where that happens: https://offers.selenawoodward.com/the-clarity-shift-page