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How Can I Best Manage My Time?
4/8/2009 1:21 PM By Catherine TBy far the most abundant resource most freelancers have is their time.
Unfortunately, it's also the one that's easiest to mismanage, either by
taking too great advantage of your freedom to spend the afternoons
watching reruns or by overbooking yourself to the point of exhaustion.
Maybe you're not too energetic in the afternoons but you get a second
wind toward evening. In that case, watching television during your
least productive time may make perfect sense. You know yourself best,
and one of the beauties of freelancing is that you don't have to follow
anyone else's schedule. You may not function well with a strict
schedule — maybe that's why you wanted to be a freelancer in the first
place — but you can look over the things you did in the past week and
the ones you have planned for the week ahead. You need time to work.
You also need time to market yourself. You need time for administrative
tasks, family responsibilities, health-related activities, and social
life. How are you using your time now? What needs more attention? What
needs less? One commitment that often gets neglected is time for
yourself. It's easy to feel pulled in a zillion different directions,
but some time spent doing nothing (and not feeling guilty about it!)
can renew and re-energize your work like nothing else.
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