Comments on: The Freelancer’s Guide to Time Management https://nation1099.com/freelancers-guide-time-management/ Advance Freelance Career and Freelance Business Advice Thu, 19 Apr 2018 04:15:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jessie Kwak https://nation1099.com/freelancers-guide-time-management/#comment-313 Wed, 17 May 2017 23:02:17 +0000 http://nation1099.com/?p=639#comment-313 I definitely agree about taking a few minutes at the end of the day to reflect, regroup, and plan out tomorrow. I always schedule out my day in 1-2 hour blocks, which I jot down on a pad of paper on my desk. That way I can assign my priorities while they’re still fresh in my mind, rather than waking up and wondering what I should start on first.

Scheduling out the day also helps me see when I’ve got waaay too many things on my to do list for the next day. (Which is literally every day.) It keeps me somewhat realistic!

Your note about to do lists made me laugh — yep, everybody’s got their own system.

I use Evernote, and wrote about my system here: https://medium.com/writers-on-writing/an-evernote-productivity-system-for-self-employed-creatives-5f82422ff789

I needed something digital since I’m on the go a lot — before I got the Evernote thing dialed in, I had Post-It notes *everywhere*.

]]> By: Ben Shanbrom https://nation1099.com/freelancers-guide-time-management/#comment-269 Fri, 14 Apr 2017 15:22:17 +0000 http://nation1099.com/?p=639#comment-269 In reply to Jagdish.

Thanks for reading and weighing in, Jagdish. I’ve heard of Clockodo but never got around to trying it out. I’ll have to check it out! And definitely give the Pomodoro method a try — it really helps me overcome the daily will power hump.

]]> By: Jagdish https://nation1099.com/freelancers-guide-time-management/#comment-266 Tue, 11 Apr 2017 07:18:07 +0000 http://nation1099.com/?p=639#comment-266 You’re right, time management is a very important thing for freelancers. I think many realize that, but getting out of the daily social media and email distractions is the real difficulty. I started tracking my worktime with a tool like harvest (http://www.clockodo.com) a while ago and see how i spent my time, but focussing on the important things is not easy. Perhaps I should try pomodoro.

]]> By: Ben Shanbrom https://nation1099.com/freelancers-guide-time-management/#comment-202 Wed, 15 Feb 2017 18:53:56 +0000 http://nation1099.com/?p=639#comment-202 In reply to Jim.

Thanks Jim! Much appreciated.

Do you have any ideas for optimizing your time in the next year?

Cheers from New Haven, Connecticut!

-Ben

]]> By: Jim https://nation1099.com/freelancers-guide-time-management/#comment-176 Tue, 31 Jan 2017 01:16:42 +0000 http://nation1099.com/?p=639#comment-176 Greetings! I’ve been reading your web site for some time now and
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Just wanted to say keep up the great job!

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