Work on a single, small goal at a time, and in a few months, you’ll be shocked at how much you achieved. Or even smaller: make a list of the types of clients I want to work with. Something like this: book one new client for next month.
However, a single objective is easy to keep in mind while you work. If you’re like me, you’ve made a huge list of to-do items or goals, and only ever address one or two. So instead of placing a ton of pressure upon yourself to achieve a monumental task, start with a small goal.įurther, it’s too difficult to track multiple goals at once. The issue with goals is that you can easily make them impossible or too numerous to achieve. Bobbi Reyda Challenge: making realistic goals
This way, when we are busy with client work, we have these overarching weekly and monthly themes to keep us from just putting our heads down and ignoring our business. Each week’s goal builds on the previous week to work towards the goal for the month. Each month is then broken up into weekly themes/goals so that we always have something actionable and specific to work towards. We set monthly themes to keep something to focus on. You’d be surprised how many people just work and work without a long-term plan.Įven just writing down a single goal forces you to think about more than the urgent short term.Īnother benefit is that goals give you a way to track the health of your business in addition to income. (And if the client is demanding you start tomorrow, you might want to walk away from that work anyway, for other obvious reasons.) Set Goals
Timing is often less important once they’ve decided to work with you. However, once you have convinced the client to hire you, you’ve already overcome a huge barrier. You might worry if you ask a client for a delayed start date, that they will bail. Reserving time to work on your own business requires discipline and some willingness to negotiate deadlines with clients. If you don’t spread out projects and make time for your own business, or if you tend to book work whenever the client wants, you are almost guaranteed to run into a feast and famine cycle. You can’t book your billable time 100%, you have to discipline yourself to take some amount of time, let’s say 20% (1-day) and use that to market yourself, follow-up with leads and plan for the next X-months. One method I’ve found useful is to carve out time at the beginning of the day before e-mail or other work and spend 30 mins to 1 hour on those specific topics.Įasier said than done but at least with that framework there and the calendar reminders in place, it nudges you in the right direction. I treat it like a client’s project and I don’t want to fail myself.
#Bombsquad feast or famine update
There no ‘but I didn’t have the time to update my webpage’ anymore. What I do now is simply schedule time for this like I schedule time for my clients.
Several readers replied and advised scheduling time to work on your own business the same way you schedule client work. Schedule time to work on your own businessĪ common issue is being so booked up with projects that a consultant can’t find time for marketing or coordinating future work.
#Bombsquad feast or famine how to
Here’s the advice I received from experienced consultants about how to prevent the famine. (If you’re one of the people who replied, thank you sincerely.) I received so many replies with quality advice. I decided to put the task to my newsletter readers and asked how they avoid the inevitable period of slow or little work. That famine is one of the biggest fears in consulting. How do you avoid the infamous cycle of feast and famine in your freelancing business?
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