Last Tuesday was my last day working at the bank. Today is day number two of my new freelance career and time feels like its whizzing by. I spent yesterday in a sleepy haze after enjoying a few celebratory drinks on Thursday evening. I spent today trying to get comfortable in the new role.
Comfort comes easy when you can work from the couch, kitchen counter, bed, shower, or whatever’s most comfortable at that particular moment. I accomplished a lot today: I pitched an idea to a few editors; I blogged on smarterfitter; I wrote some comments and emails to friends, former colleagues, and fellow bloggers; I did a brain dump of all my various projects and lists and recorded it all in TaskPaper. I also made time for tabouleh, the library and an episode of The Wire.
I feel like I’ve been productive, but I also feel like I’m moving way too slowly. The only way around this sense of urgency seems to be stricter time management around my various tasks. If I give myself two hours a day to work on SmarterFitter, and another two hours to write and pitch story ideas, then I can feel good about doing both things in the time I give them without getting distracted by a sense of guilt that I should be working on the other thing.
An income would also help!
Then there’s all my side projects, like photography, this blog, and a blog I want to build about free data (freedatablog.com, stay tuned!). And the most important project of all: plan my mom’s visit to London in less than a week!
Like I said, I’m still getting used to this. I really don’t want to become one of those GTD-obsessed productivity hounds, so I’ll leave my rant at that and actually DO something, like write about freelancing on this blog, yet another project.
Until tomorrow…
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