Flexible Working Life

I need a lot of sleep.

I’ve always been like this and sometimes, I do feel a bit resentful about it.  It can be a pain needing so much sleep; it gets in the way when there’s so much to do.
When I was at college and had no children, I had the luxury of being able to snooze the morning away.  At weekends I could easily get up in the early afternoon feeling great.  Thinking back, it seems that I hardly ever suffered with hangovers like I do now, and I used to get just as much work done.  I was able to work till late at night, and catch up [Read more]

I always find I work better if I have a list of goals to work towards.
I decide what I want to achieve, pick a time when the goal will be completed and I write it down.
For a long time my goals were done at the beginning of a New Year or on my birthday, they were ‘lifetime goals,’ but I’ve found that if I create goals [Read more]

One thing I constantly mull over as a freelancer, is how I can increase my turnover.
I love my job and I’m lucky to have a steady stream of ideas and work coming in, but when I look back over my week, there seems to be a lot of time that I can’t account for.

I want to produce articles more quickly, get more efficient with my research, get commissions quicker and generally stop messing about. I think it must be the same with any freelancing position, there is always the question about increasing your turnover.

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