I was going through my business strategy, and I realized that I haven’t blogged in MONTHS.
#whoops
So, consider this your super-official, with tons of fanfare, I am SO excited to back on my OG Free Mama website blog post.
If you’re new here, I’m Lauren, and my passion is to get YOU out of your 9-5 and back home with your beautiful family, making a great income from home.
Also, I’m really not a big fan of network marketing (to put it mildly), so I will never, ever ask you to sell anything to your friends and family.
Here’s what I WILL do. I’ll show up weekly with tips and information you can use to build your freelancing business.
I’ll talk about what works — and what doesn’t. (Because WHY waste your time on stuff that doesn’t work?)
Now, onto the good stuff!
I don’t know if you’ve glanced at a calendar lately, but I was kind of stunned to realize that, UM, TIME HAS PASSED. How the heck did that happen?
This time of year is FULL of good things, and I have a couple of very cool surprises in store for you.
This time of year is also full of swim team, which my daughter just joined. And that’s great — she clearly inherited my competitive streak — except for the part where swim team is EVERY SINGLE DAY after school.
The thing is, I also have these OTHER two kids, and they are NOT going to be on the swim team, and they will be with me, on the bleachers, while we cheer for Daphne and think about how awesome it will be to travel to the Olympics with her in a few years.
Having two kids NEAR the water when they are not supposed to be IN the water? HOLY ANXIETY, mama.
Also, this means I’m going to be spending a fair amount of time NOT at my desk doing my work.
Which means that I need to get even MORE organized with my planning and scheduling so that I don’t find myself scrambling to meet deadlines or delivering less-than-amazing work to my clients.
I’m a huge fan of time blocking.
I assign different blocks of time to specific tasks so that I always know exactly what I need to work on when I’m at my desk.
If you want to supercharge your productivity, you can actually combine time blocking with one of my very favorite productivity tools — The Daily Five. Check out this video for more info on The Daily Five and why it rocks.
[Note: you’ll need to join The Free Mama Movement FB Group to watch this video!]
Prioritize your top five tasks for yourself AND create and prioritize SEPARATE Daily Five lists for EACH of your clients. That way, whenever you sit down to work, you will know what MUST get done for the day to be a success.
What’s your biggest scheduling struggle, Mama?
Let me know, because we are totally in this together!