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Working with bad clients:

1. Distracts you from doing your best work for your best clients
2. Ties you up from working with new and better-fit clients
3. Creates stress which you bring home to your loved ones
4. Eliminates the chances of you getting a referral in the end
5. Reduces the chance of you being able to do a case study
6. Drains you of your energy (physically and emotionally)
7. Hurts your confidence in other areas of your life and business
8. Burns you out more quickly—which is bad for business
9. Creates risk like reputation damage, lawsuits, and other negative byproducts

As a consultant, you're the asset. 

Working with bad clients is like allowing corrosives on your core machinery. If you don't fix it, you'll have no business.

Don't mistake revenue for a profitable situation. 

Remove the acid in the vessel.