FREELANCING

How I Apply A Boardgame Strategy to my Freelancing Business

Thanks to the Boardgame Splendor

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After an awesome conversation with fellow freelancer BreeAnn the other day, I realized I approach my freelancing business the same way I play the board game Splendor. For those of you who haven’t played it, let me explain.

Splendor is a game where you collect chips and cards that produce Gems to build your Gem Empire. Some Gems are very valuable and others are not. The ones that cost more to build are worth more points and the ones that cost less to build are (not surprisingly) worth far fewer points.

There are 2 strategies to win this game:

1. Quickly collect as many low point cards as you can

In this strategy, you take whatever you can and rack up the gems. It feels great to have tons of colourful sapphires and rubies in front of you, but the downside is that they’re all lower quality and some aren’t worth any points at all.

2. Be patient and only collect expensive cards

On the contrary, we have a slower strategy that looks like it’s failing at first. You’ll have tons of tokens as a way to save up and buy only a few gems, but…