A Quick Guide to Organizing your Week as a Freelance Creative
A Quick Guide to Organizing your Week as a Freelance Creative
Organizing your schedule for the week can be dreading. Specially if you are a busy free-lance creative, or own a small to medium free-lance studio. The scariest part is how to get your emails and phone calls done before the production day or days when you can be creative and do what you enjoy most.
If you follow this simple guide, not only will you get everything done, but you will spend less time and effort and even save money! We can even teach you how to organize your personal assistant (should you have one) so you can spend time pitching to bigger and better clients or resting at the beach with a margarita!
Here is what to do:
1) Don't panic! For us creatives, organizing skills are usually a mystery but not to be dreaded. So the first thing you have to do to organise your schedule for the week is to see which days or specific times you are going to use to produce your creative work. As a photographer for example you can say "I will take the pictures for my car magazine assignment on Tuesday". So book those days OFF the office calendar and get started on the days left.
2) You will usually have 3 main tasks to do the rest of the days at the office; pitching ideas to clients, emails and phone-calls. DO NOT plan your days doing all 3 the same day. It is far more productive to do one only thing on that day rather that going back and forth with phone-calls and emails. For example, I will do all my emails on one day and all of my phone-calls on another day, alternating with my assistant. On a day when I'm writing emails, she can be making phone-calls and can have the phone line free for her to use all the time.
3) If you have to get out of the office for any reason, plan it douring business hours, when there is less traffic and you will spend less time commuting.
4) If you are working on pitches for creative work, do these the day before you are planning to work on the creative commissions. This is because you will find it far more relaxing and the day after, when you are doing creative work, you will have a better mind-set.
5) Make sure you include some personal time for YOU. Allot some time in your agenda. Make an appointment for yourself and keep it, even if it's only a leisurely 20 minute.
6) Schedule time for relaxing, this will help you with creative ideas and thinking of new pitches for new or existing clients.
7) Don't Put It Off! If you procrastinate, you'll only get stressed out when you think about that hateful "to do" item on your list. You'll blow it out of proportion in your mind and it will become almost impossible to accomplish. If you find it difficult to decide what to do first, rate your task list as follow;
1 important and due soon.
2 important and not due soon.
3 not important and due soon.
4 not important and not due soon.
The trick is to get all the number 1 scheduled on the week in your agenda and do them. You will find that organizing your weekly tasks beforehand makes your job easier and more enjoyable.
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