Thought I would do a little update since It's been a while!
I seem in much more of a rhythm these days with the whole self employed/being my own boss..
I'm finding I'm much more able to space work ou these days. So maybe on Monday I will say I want to get xyz done this week and I will break that task into smaller chunks and chip away at it so it's all done. This didn't used to be the case when I just had Friday to work when I had a job as well as I was just doing EVERYTHING on one day which was a bit mad at times!
I've also stopped any guilt or beating myself up if I had an afternoon or entire day of, or maybe two days off. My setup is much like
@katykicker where a fair chunk of our income is made through affiliates/referral links dotted around the Internet so having time away my 'job' is actually OK during the working week.
All that I've had the odd week where NO NEW WORK has come in at all and it still spooks you a bit and can set you off into a bit of a panic, guess I'm still not used to that yet lol
I also had a bit of a mini meltdown the other week when
Google decided to release a new update which sent my website traffic into a bit of a spin and had promoted some REALLY random pages on the blog and relegated others so I've been heavily internally linking the newly popular pages to 'pillar' content on the blog like a mad man and everything now seems to have stabilised but it was still an 'oh crap' moment for a good few hours while I tried to figure out how to deal with the loss of traffic.
FreeAgent continues to be a GODSEND for me in terms of tracking income and clocking expenses as I can do it all in a few clicks now instead of having to traul my bank account / PayPal account and having to add it to a spreadsheet manually.
It really is quite the adventure all this for anything thinking about making the leap into full-time self-employment.