Since beginning my at-home employment I have been pretty good about starting the work day at 8:00am every morning. Lately, however, I have noticed that even though my backside may be in the chair at 8 -- or soon thereafter -- I often didn't become productive on paying, work-related activities until as late as 10. This weekend I vowed to change that.
Today I crawled out of bed at 6:15 and I was in the office at 6:20. I am going to get all of my "miscellaneous" activities -- blogging, filtering through my RSS feeds, reading the news -- done, head upstairs for breakfast with the fam, and then be back here to start "real" work around 8. Hopefully that will open up a little time mid-day for working out in anticipation of the spring soccer season, which is quickly approaching. I always feel better when I am more fit, so I expect exercise to help me increase my productivity a bit. Assuming it doesn't just make me want to take a nap.
The point of all of this is to increase the number of billable hours I work to help increase our savings rate. We hope to have a big expense later this year, circumstances willing. But more on that some other time.
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I hope everything for your big expense this year works out for you!
Way to go on your journey toward productivity.
I Freelance as well and had to do the same. I was blowing things off and then working til midnight. I even went as far as scheduling a Monday morning meeting, which even with just me I tried to avoid 😊
But basically I would white board out my week and try to stay on task, shutting down at 5pm.
Best of Luck!
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