You need to get rid of all of your clients. No, not literally. Emotionally.
What I mean is that you need to detach from the need for your clients to be something they aren’t.
You can’t make your clients appreciate you if they don’t. Let them go. Mentally release them and your need to change them.
You can’t change the complainers, the price shoppers, and the trouble makers into model clients. Let them go.
You can’t change your clients. All you can do is. . . change your clients.
Let go of the wrong ones to make room for the right ones. The clients who value what you do for them, and tell you so. The clients who follow your advice, pay your bill, and re-tweet your brilliance. The clients who come back to you again and again and refer others, again and again.
You know the kinds of clients I’m talking about. The ones you’d like to clone.
Let go of all of your clients to make room for the right clients, the best clients, the clients that make everything you do worth doing.
They are out there and they will find you. But only if you make room.