A lot of us get into entrepreneurship because we want freedom and flexibility. We want to live lives of balance, freedom, and flexibility.  

When we’re talking about work-life balance, we mistakenly believe that if things aren’t going well, it’s us at fault. But I will make the argument that the problem isn’t our ability, but a structural problem. Most creative entrepreneurs are trying to juggle their work and personal lives without making any intentional choices about how their time is going to be spent. 

Solving this problem means having a structure for how you spend your time so that you can show up for all the different responsibilities you have in your life. For this week’s episode, I’ll be talking about a time-blocked schedule. Time blocking is a tool that helps you decide in advance how you are going to spend your time so that you can balance the different priorities you have in your life and business. We’ll be going through the basics of time blocking, specifically, 4 things you need to have in place to have a basic time-blocked schedule, which are:

1. Office hours
2. Client work vs. admin/internal work 
3. Meetings vs. No meetings
4. Monthly and quarterly planning days, content batching

Links

Better Than Before, Gretchen Rubin

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