In my freelance finances, I wish to differentiate between essential and non-critical bills. Vital bills are essential to run my enterprise, whereas non-critical bills fall into the “good to have” class. If I needed to, I might lower them from my finances.
However there are a couple of non-critical bills that I might be very unhappy about reducing — as a result of they make my work so significantly better or extra satisfying.
Listed here are my favourite non-critical bills. And as a bonus: enterprise bills are a tax write-off!
I dwell in a home with 5 folks, together with three children. Whereas the children are in school, my days are full of shopper work. My evenings are full of household obligations.
I put aside time for non-client work throughout the week, resembling planning my social media content material or sending invoices, nevertheless it’s lots tougher to slot in greater tasks that I wish to do for my enterprise. I merely don’t have massive blocks of time to take a seat and focus.
To present myself that point, I test myself right into a lodge for the weekend. I plan this for a three-day weekend (like when Monday is a federal vacation). This offers me a number of days of uninterrupted time, which is invaluable for my prodcutivity.
I maximize my time by planning out what I wish to accomplish upfront. I’ll additionally purchase meals and a few snacks to place within the room fridge, to reduce the variety of occasions I would like to depart. I also have a moveable monitor that I can use with my laptop computer so I’ve twin displays within the lodge room.
For instance, throughout one journey I used to be decided to get my social media scheduled out for a number of weeks so I wouldn’t have to consider it. By the point I left my lodge room, I’d scheduled greater than 300 posts throughout my completely different channels. I’ve additionally deliberate workshops or created free sources throughout my weekends alone.
I’m all the time overly bold with what I wish to get accomplished. However I even have a operating “lodge record” of issues I wish to do on my subsequent journey. Ideally, I like to do that as soon as per quarter.