Success in Sweatpants

As a freelancer or a free agent, you are IT. Even if you have outsourced some of your stuff to contractors, you invariably have the biggest and widest ranging workload.  And often–perhaps more often than you’d like–you feel overwhelmed by everything that needs to get done, and down on yourself for “not being productive.”

Give yourself a break. A BIG break.

It can be easy to forget that just a fraction of what you do in a normal day is a full time job for someone else.

Patience is a key. And so is respect–for yourself. When it’s all you, all the time, some things will progress slowly. Others will have to be put on the back burner. And you will need to take down time away from the business to take care of yourself.

Understand your needs, be gentle with yourself if things are going slower than expected.

And take time to appreciate all the things you do get done. Out there somewhere, there are six people who, all together, produced the same results as you did today.