![]() Late evening through midnight or later - project work Early evening after Supper - admin work, planning, etc. MId-morning through Supper - Client calls, project work Mornings: Reading, email, 'busy tasks', etc. To put perspective on the way I manage my time - novice-still-learning-the-ropes - approach: My wife is home with me, too so we often slip out for an ice cream break in town, or we'll sit on the patio in the evening sharing a bottle of wine while we have a biz budget/planning meeting - she's my COO. USING FANURIO WITH DROPBOX HOW TOThe challenge is knowing I "should" engage periodically to keep pace but I haven't learned how to manage that part yet because of project focus.įamily time balance is always top priority over projects. Once I get that behind me I'll re-engage in the larger community. I've dropped of forum postings and Twitter recently due to a big project deadline. If I work 12 hours today I may work 6 tomorrow, 18 for the next three days, and then take a day off.Ĭomes down to priorities. I don't count the hours I'm 'working' but I do log my time against various projects and admin functions for purposes of knowing how much and where I am spending my time. Usually break for 2-3 hours and then back to work until midnight or so. My "hours" today start around 9:00 AM and I just run through the day until about supper-ish time. This brings up the time-honored success principle: What do you want? When do you want it? What are you willing to give up (sacrifice) for it? The first two questions are easy to answer, but the last question takes real discipline. Bruce mentioned it early on in this thread where he has a 3-year heads-down all out plan. If you're starting out you need a solid plan for sure. However, since I don't go to an "office" at a specific start time or an end time, I'm forced to manage a calendar like Trina suggests. As tough as the juggling can be, I wouldn't trade my independence for anything!Īs the youngest member of the freelance community - just over three months now, my take is still in the learning phase.įirst, I've never been a big fan of the clock rather just getting the work done. I'm a big believer in aggressive calendar management so I purposely book myself for appointments for everything - 'busy' when I need to focus on work stuff and 'out of the office' when I need to take care of the family/life stuff.Īs others have stated, I also have a give & take attitude about my schedule knowing that the cost of scheduling flexibility is almost always the occasional late-nighter (or even all-nighter). My most trusted tools include Evernote, the project timer in my Billings app, my to-do list (residing in Asana these days), and my Google calendar. Time management continues to be the thing I struggle with the most. On my website I've organized a ton of resources, books, articles, and links that I discussed in the session: Hope these are helpful! I'm relatively new to feelancing (2.5 years) so after my first year of learning everything the hard way, I did a "Lessons Learned for New Consultants" session at DevLearn '11 to try to help others considering the 'lifestyle' to avoid making some of the same mistakes I've made. Good questions! Loved reading all of the great ideas and perspectives on a topic very near and dear to my heart. ![]()
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