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How to Take Time Off as a Freelancer: Medical, Maternity, and Sabbaticals client freelance marketing strategy time Dec 03, 2025

This blog summarizes learnings from The Future is Freelance Forums. These forums are where stakeholders from all levels of the freelance ecosystem (freelancers, agency leaders, coaches, platform CEOs,...

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What Are Meetings For? clients management time Aug 29, 2023

I am in a constant battle with meetings.

As a freelancer, I have multiple clients, projects, and organizations that I interface with regularly. As a project manager, I am also the person on the

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Multitasking is Making You Less Efficient organization time Jun 27, 2023

Time management, focus, and productivity are essential skills for a solopreneur. Your time is your most valuable asset when you’re a business of one.

Time management, focus, and productivity ar

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How To Focus on What’s Important and Actually Get It Done best life freelance planning project management time May 24, 2023
 

In 1954 President Eisenhower cited the juxtaposition between importance and urgency in his famous quote, “I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not import...

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How To Take a REAL Vacation When You Work for Yourself best life entrepreneur freelance planning self care time May 24, 2022
 

When you work for yourself, by yourself, “time off” can be a bit of a paradox — you can be much more flexible about having “time off” day-to-day, but it can be hard to take extended time off

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3 Reasons Freelancing Makes Me a Better Parent best life freelance self care time work from home Apr 04, 2022

Being a working parent has never been easy. Traditional work scenarios are designed for people without boundaries and constraints with performance (explicitly or implicitly) tied to long workdays and ...

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Four Ways to Reboot Your Business Model best life entrepreneur management money solopreneur time Dec 27, 2021
 There are as many types of solopreneur business models as there are solopreneurs. When you work for yourself, by yourself, you can reinvent what you do whenever you want.

That’s true…in theory

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The Antidote to Languishing Isn’t Focus, It’s Idleness best life better world time Jun 22, 2021

For the last month or so I’ve found it incredibly difficult to be productive.

This is not common for me — I love my job, I love my work, and I love “getting things done.”

It turns out, I’m not

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I Haven't Worked 40 Hours a Week in Years…and I Don't Feel Guilty About It best life entrepreneur freelance money time Apr 05, 2021

One of the main reasons I decided to work for myself was because I was sick of people telling me how much to work, when to work, and where to work. 

I sat at a desk for eight hours a day, even though...

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5 Rules for Effective Meetings management project management time Mar 15, 2021

Meetings have been a big topic lately. It seems like everyone is trying to figure how to have less of them so that people have time to focus on the actual work.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve s...

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How to Create the Conditions for Your Best Work best life entrepreneur freelance time work from home Jan 18, 2021

I’m a morning person.

The best time of the day for me is from about 3 am until noon. That’s when my brain is humming... and I get most of my work done.

At first, I fought the urge to get up at 3 am ...

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Four Ways to (Re-)Prioritize Your Work in the New Year best life entrepreneur freelance time Jan 04, 2021

How did you use your time last year?

Do you feel like you got the most out of each day?

OR did it seem like you were spending too much time on things that you hate?

…things that didn’t make you mo...

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