Before you read this post, go drink some water (we both know you’re dehydrated). Back? Okay, here are my thoughts on staying healthy and hydrated when working from home. Working in an office or for a job where you punch in and out, you’re given set breaks in which you can eat food and recoverContinue reading “Working From Home – Staying Healthy & Hydrated”
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Working From Home – Social Media as A Freelancer
People are usually in one of two camps when it comes to social media: love it or hate it. In my personal life I enjoy scrolling through social media as a passive consumer, but actively creating social media posts stresses me out. However, it’s an important part of finding work and *building your brand* asContinue reading “Working From Home – Social Media as A Freelancer”
Working From Home – Hitting Word Counts
As a freelance writer, most of my work revolves around hitting word counts. This was a difficult transition to make, mostly because I only had a very shaky concept of what 10,000 words looked like, or 30,000 or 70,000… they were all just numbers that felt too big to tackle. But I figured it out,Continue reading “Working From Home – Hitting Word Counts”
Working From Home – Starting the Week Off Right
Everyone laments about Mondays, but it’s actually one of my favorite days of the week when working from home. It’s a chance to get excited about the projects I’m working on before beginning a push to make progress towards deadlines and, ultimately, my overall goals as a freelancer. Here are the three things I doContinue reading “Working From Home – Starting the Week Off Right”
Career Writing: Freelance Writing Tools
There are apps for just about everything under the sun, and if you’re anything like me, then you lean pretty heavily on your phone in everyday life. If you’re working from home like me, you can leverage your phone to help keep yourself on track. Here are five apps I use, why I use them,Continue reading “Career Writing: Freelance Writing Tools”
Working From Home – Tracking Finances
My least favorite part about freelancing is having to budget for taxes. I’m not a money person, but working from home has made it a requirement, and I was very resistant to it at first. Now, I’m better at tracking my finances even if it’s an uneasy truce. I keep track of my finances usingContinue reading “Working From Home – Tracking Finances”
Working From Home – Keeping Up with Deadlines
Deadlines are one of the hardest parts about working from home in my experience. Besides the fact that time isn’t real, it’s hard to conceptualize two weeks stretching before you and that number steadily going down. For me, once I set a two-week deadline, it feels two weeks away until about three days before. ByContinue reading “Working From Home – Keeping Up with Deadlines”
Working From Home – Work vs Personal Bullet Journal
As I’ve mentioned before, bullet journaling holds my life together. When I started working from home, my planner got increasingly full and I started to consider: should I have a separate work bullet journal vs a personal one? Here’s why you might lean more towards yes or no, depending on your situation. You may sayContinue reading “Working From Home – Work vs Personal Bullet Journal”
Working From Home – Bullet Journaling Calendar Spreads
It’s safe to say that bullet journaling is what holds my life together. As other dedicated BuJo planners will tell you, it’s a fun and efficient way to manage tasks and keep track of all the balls you’re juggling so that you (hopefully) don’t drop any. As a freelancer, I’m in charge of managing everythingContinue reading “Working From Home – Bullet Journaling Calendar Spreads”
Working From Home – Setting Boundaries
Setting boundaries in all aspects of life is hard but important, and working from home is no exception. Here’s how I tackled setting my own boundaries as I adjusted to remote work. The Issue The two biggest problems I’ve encountered when working from home directly related to setting my own hours. Weird, right? It’s oneContinue reading “Working From Home – Setting Boundaries”
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