The wonders (& challenges) of working for yourself
Working freelance is wonderful – having only recently discovered it, I cannot recommend it highly enough. And as with everything, there is a downside which I find difficult:
I am finding that often whole days can go by and you don’t realise how much you have done – to the point that you don’t think you have done anything at all – especially when some work is aiming towards longer term goals.
Being someone who likes to find solutions to any given problem, this is what I did: I have decided to note down my successes at the end of a project / task in order to be able to look back and see what I have achieved. And I will share with you some some of my highlights from this past week:
- Our first radio interview on UCB undiscovered for Salt of the Sound
- Completed 2 ½ new songs – recorded 1 (listen to a preview here)
- Wrote a lot of content for various websites
- Practised & worked out some possibilities for playing our music in a live setting
- Marathon training (5 days a week)
- Met with friends (old & new)
- Ate good food
- Enjoyed life with my husband
(NB: This list is not exhaustive, these are just a few of my achievements this week!)
Before you say it, yes, some of those tasks do not really count as ‘work’ – I know! They are more… Social? Fun? Exciting? How life should be?
Well…yes. I love that our lifestyle is allowing for us to control our own work-life balance. It has taken us a while to learn how we can make this possible but I like what we have found… & we will definitely continue to work in this way so that the positive management of our work-life balance may continue…
Written by Anita on 12th February 2014 in General, Work
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