Archive for Self-Employment
Gorilla Client
When you’re a freelancer and get a really big client, probably the first thing you do is cheer. Money! Lots of work! You can slack off marketing for awhile, wheeee!!!!!
If that client is now providing more than about 20% of your business, stop cheering right now and start panicking. No, seriously.
There’s an expression for this [...]
Do You Have Office Hours?
Often the idea of working for oneself means freedom! If you get a wild hare to go shopping in the middle of the day, you can do it and finish up your work later in the day. You don’t have a boss breathing down your neck to get a report done. You don’t have to [...]
Do You Recreate the Office When You’re Self-Employed
There is little that can compete with the heady feeling of freedom when you quit your day job to be self-employed.
Maybe you did it with visions of working in your underwear, sleeping in late, and pulling all-nighters.
The truth is that you do have a certain level of freedom. But, like anything, reality and fantasy often [...]
Inviting Flow
Obviously, as the owner of Figart Consulting, I’m self-employed.1 I don’t have a boss. I do have clients for whom I want to provide a good service, which means my work is judged – as well it should be! But since I generally get a client, then go back to my office2, and then get [...]
I’ve Got Rhythm
You need rhythm in the working world.
No, I’m not talking about the rockin’ tunz you’ve got on your MP3 player, but a rhythm to your day.
We all have times of the day when our brains run a little faster, when our thoughts flow a little easier. If we think about it, we can peg [...]