5 Practical Tips to Achieve Work-Life Balance without Losing Your Mind

Hey friends! In this week's episode, we get real about balancing work and daily life as freelancers and WFH moms.

Between kids interrupting your Zoom calls and the never-ending pile of chores, we feel your work-from-home burnout! That's why we're sharing our top 5 tips for achieving better work-life integration

TLDR:
☕ We share 5 practical tips to help you find more work-life balance
☕ Learn how to batch tasks and set boundaries so you can avoid constant interruptions☕ Why multitasking is not working for you
☕ How to stop feeling behind on chores and to-dos due to the never ending work load?☕ Learn how taking intentional breaks can actually boost your productivity

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Track 1: Hey everyone. Welcome back to another episode of the Burnt Out Freelancer podcast. I'm your host Molly Block, and I have the wonderful LaTara Dunn here with me today. And we're so glad you're joining us for In this episode today, we're talking about an important topic for all freelancers, moms who work from home and just that work life balance to avoid the burnout 'cause that's what we wanna do. This is something that we've really been focusing on, in our own business for the last year. It's just so easy to get caught up in the cycle of working nonstop as a freelancer. And before you know it, you're burnout. So today we're going through five tips to help you find more balance in 2023, even with the busy schedule of freelance work. 

LaTara Dunn: we're going to talk about batching your tasks, completing small chores before you actually start working, setting your boundaries and taking intentional breaks throughout the day and why that is incredibly important.

LaTara Dunn: And then a daily review of how [00:01:00] your day's been before you actually close your laptop for the day. to help prepare you. For the next day, really, and to help clear your mind to get ready to go into the family time and prepare for the evening so you can focus on your children.

LaTara Dunn: let's start off by talking about our first tip, which is batching your tasks. this is something that I actually have worked really hard on over the past year. Molly has been able to see me go through that transition. A few years ago, I did not batch my tasks at all, and Everything was very scrambled and stressful.

LaTara Dunn: And so what I mean by batching tasks, say from, I start my work day around 10, so say from 10 to 10 30, I'm just going to be checking emails and Slack notifications. And then I'm also going to check my calendar during that time to see, to confirm like when I have meetings and then from 11 to 12, I'm going to work on [00:02:00] one client.

LaTara Dunn: Right. I'm not going to be working on five different clients within that 60 minutes. And that's what I used to do. I would just bounce back and forth from client to client to client. I'd look at Slack. I'd see a task in Slack. I'd be like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna go work on that. So I'd stop what I was doing.

LaTara Dunn: I'd go over to Client B's stuff. 

LaTara Dunn: and hop over to Client C's tasks and It would just spiral from there and I would do that all day long and then come the end of the day I'd be like, holy shit. I literally didn't accomplish anything at all,

Molly Block: Yeah,

Molly Block: you don't get anything done when you do it that. I did it for so long and you sit there after 8, 9, 10 hours and then you look down and you're like, well, fuck. I didn't actually complete anything.

Molly Block: but half completed, 

Molly Block: 10 tasks, but I didn't complete any of them. so it, it is so important to batch tasks and especially people who have a D H D like we do. it is so important because you know how easy it is to get distracted.

Molly Block: I have [00:03:00] wrangle myself in all the time, but I'm conscious of it now, so I know like, Hey,

LaTara Dunn: right. Exactly 

Molly Block: back over ,come on back. Like first thing in the morning, I check

Molly Block: my email and all client's emails. That way I can, check that task off my list, get it taken care of. I also try to schedule all my meetings around the same time, back to back, and sometimes that can seem a little overwhelming, but honestly, it works best for me.

Molly Block: You can always do what works best for you, but I think it's best to just get all of those meetings out of the way so then you have a bulk time that you can work on those projects. and then, yeah,

Molly Block: just 

Molly Block: trying to complete one task. Even if those Slack

Molly Block: notifications come in, 

LaTara Dunn: I have my phone on do not disturb the entire day. And I do that so I can stay focused on these batch tasks. And later on when we talk about, taking breaks, I'll talk about what I do with my phone, during those breaks.[00:04:00] but when I'm working on batching my tasks 

LaTara Dunn: I don't get social media notifications sent to my computer at all. Therefore I don't see anything pop up. On my screen and also My slack always says i'm away for on my client slack pages.

LaTara Dunn: I never come back. never active I'm never there! Because I don't want them to see the little green bubble, the filled in green bubble that says, Oh, LaTara is here, I'm gonna start sending her a bunch of messages, and expect a response from me right away. Because that's not gonna happen. I also turn the sound of my Slack off.

Molly Block: I think, Molly, you have yours on sometimes. I have mine on sometimes. what I'll do is batch

Molly Block: my work by day. so if I have a lot of tasks for a

Molly Block: client, I'll work on just that client for the day. so I'll turn the notifications on for them because 

Molly Block: if it's something especially that's

Molly Block: timely and we're having a lot of back to back, I wanna be notified when they say

Molly Block: something me so I can get that task

Molly Block: complete 

LaTara Dunn: Right. [00:05:00] Exactly.

Molly Block: focusing on right then. But I have started going in and setting my notifications either off or setting myself as a way, just so people, don't see that little green bubble

Molly Block: and just start messaging me.

LaTara Dunn: Right. And, when I, was when I was saying like a year ago and I didn't have any, tasks clumped together. I used to have meetings on every day but Friday. And it was so frustrating to me because maybe I'd only meet with two clients per day.

LaTara Dunn: at one point, 10 to 12 hours of my week was just client calls. And that's a lot of time if you think about it, especially for a mom who works from home because people think like, oh, yeah, you can work all day long uninterrupted. And it's that's not the case at all, because we have this invisible mental load of all of the other things that we need to handle, which we'll talk about in a little bit when we talk about completing small chores in the morning.

LaTara Dunn: But, yeah, I just couldn't handle it. So now I have all of my meetings within two days out of the week. I just clump them all. back to back and I just bust them all out [00:06:00] and I take really good notes during my meeting so then I can recap afterwards and especially come like the last meeting of the day, my brain might be like, I've been on zoom for the past four hours.

LaTara Dunn: I can't take it any longer. 

LaTara Dunn: so on Mondays I plan out my week.

LaTara Dunn: I can go back through those recordings and make sure my notes are up to par with what I need to get done for the week, so that's why I batch all of my meetings together. 

LaTara Dunn: So anyways, number one, make sure to batch your tasks. You can batch them by client or you can batch them by day. So Monday can be like your admin day where you just focus on your business organization, responding to emails, getting prepped for the week.

LaTara Dunn: If you don't do that on Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays could be client call days. And then make sure they're all chunked together. I like doing all my meetings in the afternoon. So I still have nice relaxing mornings. And if I need a prep, if I'm behind and I need to prep for a meeting that gives me a couple hours to make sure I'm prepared for each call.

LaTara Dunn: And then Thursdays and [00:07:00] Fridays straight up just work days, no client. calls. And that leaves a window open in case of an emergency comes up and we need to talk real quick or I get a discovery call. so definitely do that. It will help you be more focused throughout the day, which will result in less stress and burnout long term like it did for us.

Molly Block: Yep.

LaTara Dunn: Yeah. Okay. Molly. So what is our tip number two?

Molly Block: So tip number two is something that I've really been trying to focus on myself, is completing small chores before you start work. again, as I mentioned, I have a d h D, I know LaTara does as well. And what I used to do is I would sit down at my desk and then I would look around and I'd see something and I would go Straighten this up, and then I'd come back to work, and then I would go in the kitchen and do dishes, and then I'd come back to work. A k a, just getting distracted

Molly Block: all day, not really getting my shit done. And, [00:08:00] feeling overwhelmed because I felt like my house was dirty and I'm sitting here and I can clean it, but I'm not. So what I do now is I make a little list and I do my chores, in the morning, whether that's tackling dishes, laundry, tidying up the room, any exercise which, not that great at doing right now. .It's a time to do like your personal to-do list. So spending the morning, whether it's an hour, whether it's 30 minutes, just trying to check off stuff in your personal life and your environment, so that way when you get into work, you're not thinking about all those other tasks that you can clearly

Molly Block: see because you're in your house, 

LaTara Dunn: it, and also, this is a section that I'm trying really hard to get better at because I go through phases where I will do these things in the morning, when it's like, okay, Nick's, at work. the children are at daycare or at [00:09:00] school and I'm all by myself.

LaTara Dunn: Those are the mornings that it's much easier for me to do this. And it's because no one's distracting me or asking me for anything or wanting to talk to me or whatever. So I'll put on some tunes and I'll load the dishwasher because I never do the dishes at the end of the day, which I wish I did.

LaTara Dunn: I'm just not that person. I'm being, I really, really, really wish 

Molly Block: I'm not. 

LaTara Dunn: up 

Molly Block: I'm not. 

LaTara Dunn: because it would seriously make me so happy. And maybe my family wouldn't think I was so grumpy all the time, 

LaTara Dunn: So I try really hard to do the dishwasher in the morning when no one's here. And then that will motivate me to go start a load of laundry because I'm a family of six.

LaTara Dunn: So I really do have to do laundry every day. If I don't it just goes crazy. so I try to do that. And then while doing that, I also, when I get dressed, I make my bed, so I make my bed, I'm super simple when it comes to making my bed, I don't have a lot of stuff on it, so I literally just throw the blanket, flatten it on top, cover my pillows, and I'm good to [00:10:00] go, and that's like done in 20 seconds, and just like having that one, honestly, My house could be a total dump, but making my bed makes me feel so much better.

Molly Block: I'm right there with you, like I battle with depression and just literally

Molly Block: throwing that blanket over my pillows and smoothing it out.

Molly Block: like a real adult. like you said, my life could be a shit storm, like there could be laundry here, there could be dishes piled up, but my bed's

LaTara Dunn: Mm 

Molly Block: so I got 

latara_1_09-25-2023_104129: It feels really good. It really does. 

Molly Block: Exactly. Exactly. And I wanna add one thing with, doing, the to-do list and things, before you start working. If you have, chronic illness,

Molly Block: like, you know, I have MS. my energy. Like I start working at five o'clock

LaTara Dunn: 

Molly Block: I know it sounds wild.

Molly Block: And my boyfriend goes to work at 4:00 AM so, when he kisses me goodbye, which I want him to do, I'm fucking up. So I'm like, [00:11:00] might as well start working.

Molly Block: My brain only works in the morning, so I need to check that to-do list off in the morning, before I start working, or by the

Molly Block: time to work, my brain's already fried. So, anyone who has a chronic illness or

Molly Block: energy that depletes throughout the day, It's just, I feel like it gives me a little bit of a boost to

Molly Block: say, okay, I've already done the dishes, I got the laundry, and now it's time for me to work. And it also helps my a d h D brain. So I won't keep thinking, oh, I

Molly Block: need this, I need this. It's already done. 

LaTara Dunn: the thing I hate, not the one thing, there's a couple things I hate doing. One is dishes and two is laundry, but three, I hate figuring out what the hell is for dinner each night. It is the bane of my existence. I used to enjoy cooking before I had children, and it, I think it was just because it was food just I ate myself, in my, my single days.

LaTara Dunn: I was like, oh yeah, no one's gonna complain about this, right? I didn't even know that was a thing yet, right? So I used to enjoy it, [00:12:00] and, I used to actually put a lot of And now I hate it a lot. I burn everything. I never have a full idea of what I'm doing until it's on the table and it's just a mad dash, right?

LaTara Dunn: Because I have four little kiddos 

LaTara Dunn: Yeah, it's so stressful so what I try to do is in the morning before I come out to my office during my small chore time Is I try to figure out what's going to be for dinner So that because my dag flies by once i'm in work mode i'm in a hyper focus mode and i'm only focusing on work and I And then 4.

LaTara Dunn: 30 hits, and I have to go get the twins from daycare or whatever. Or, on these days, they go to school, so my day ends early on these days. And then I'm like, crap, I have no idea what we're eating for dinner. And that feeling is super stressful. Super stressful. And so, I [00:13:00] to figure it out, then another way that helps me is I order my groceries online.

LaTara Dunn: Ordering my groceries online and having them delivered to my house is like the best thing that I can do for my mental load, for my work life balance. so... I'll, figure out what are we going to have for the next couple of days? I'll just have it dropped off at my house.

LaTara Dunn: It will get here in the afternoon. So we will arrive before dinner. usually, that's when I take a break to have lunch anyways. So I'm making my lunch, putting the groceries away. And then my mind is refreshing itself. Oh yeah, this is what we're doing for dinner. That's right. Morning Latara already figured this out and already ordered it.

LaTara Dunn: So tonight Latara isn't going to be as stressed out.

LaTara Dunn: Exactly. Exactly. And our third tip is set boundaries. 

Molly Block: to me, I think is one of the most important tips that we could give you in this episode because boundaries are

Molly Block: extremely important for your mental [00:14:00] health, your productivity, and just an overall balance with work and home life. I, when I first started, I had absolutely no boundaries.

Molly Block: there was literally nothing like my clients could text me at 10 o'clock at night. I would be sitting at my desk till 10:00 PM I'd work weekends, people would be

Molly Block: me. It was wild. It was wild times and I've definitely got away from that because, you just, you can't get shit done and then it, it bleeds over into your personal life.

Molly Block: Like Steve would be like, hello,

LaTara Dunn: Right.

Molly Block: I'm, I'm here. And, you know, we wouldn't spend time at night. He, he, does hvac so he goes to bed at eight o'clock at night and gets up at four o'clock in the morning and I would still be sitting at my desk. Like there would literally be no, our relationship

Molly Block: was, 

LaTara Dunn: hmm. Mm hmm.

Molly Block: was nothing.

Molly Block: Um, 'cause I was just sitting at

Molly Block: my We just 

LaTara Dunn: Ugh, that's the worst starts happening, like, how do we get out of this? We're not roommates, we're [00:15:00] supposed in a relationship, a partnership here, yeah. Yeah.

Molly Block: exactly. Exactly. So, you know, I will say if it happens, the biggest thing is just being able to recognize it First and foremost, this is your business. so, feeling confident, like once you notice that is happening, that where your work is bleeding into your home life or vice versa. and recognizing it, setting those boundaries with your clients. And that's totally okay. It's totally okay to let them know, Hey, this is how I communicate. Um,

Molly Block: Scheduling last minute meetings, I still get that sometimes. Hey,

Molly Block: can we have quick meeting right now? No, we can't. No, we can't. 

LaTara Dunn: I can't just stop what I'm doing and gather my thoughts and jump on a call real quick with someone. It just doesn't work like that. And it's going to totally ruin my productivity for the rest of the day. Yeah.

Molly Block: Exactly. It definitely does and it

Molly Block: always happens when I'm working on client A and then client B is like, can we

Molly Block: have [00:16:00] call Right now I'm not working on client B, so if I hopped on a call, I'm gonna get totally taken out of the mindset of what I was working on

Molly Block: A and you know, unless it's like a dire emergency, like they have a retreat and something needs to be changed right now because something's wrong or whatever the case is, that's up to you. But I do not do that. 

LaTara Dunn: Nobody is dying. Nobody is dying freelance world when it comes to what the things you need to do for your client. Right?

Molly Block: exactly like it can wait till I'm done what I'm doing and definitely not just hopping on a call. 

LaTara Dunn: because it's not 15 minutes.

LaTara Dunn: It turns into an hour.

Molly Block: Exactly. It, it always turns into a

Molly Block: lot and there's always more added onto the call. And 

Molly Block: I'm not that great at multitasking to begin with. 

Molly Block: so. I'm in my lazy, like, oh, I'm getting my, my, to-do list checked off and doing client

Molly Block: A, and then I'll get to B and then C and then it's just like, [00:17:00] it just breaks my concentration and I

Molly Block: can't, can't do 

LaTara Dunn: And it, and it's cha and it's a challenge, right? Because you want to do what your client needs because you love them and you wanna take care of them. And ultimately, at the end of the day, you just want their stuff to be successful that you do for them. And so it's hard for you to say no to those quick calls, right?

LaTara Dunn: It's hard for you to not answer those emails because you do, 'cause you're like, Okay. Do I think about myself and my family right now? Or do I think about my client? If I don't think about my client, am I now affecting my family because my client's going to fire me? Like these are literally thoughts that are going to run through your head.

LaTara Dunn: Right. And it's super hard. Yeah. And so it's okay to respond to and be like, Hey, really sorry. someone wants to have a call with me right now today. And my day is already planned and booked out and that's just not a possibility. So I'm going to have to respond to her and I'm going to say, Hey, Glad you're loving everything that I've done for you.

LaTara Dunn: I'm glad you had a chance to look it over. I know you have a few more questions and you'd like to call, but unfortunately my [00:18:00] schedule is booked for today and that's not gonna work. How does this day in time work? So I'm gonna offer a solution. 

Molly Block: You're giving her, you're giving her an option without, you're saying no, with, yeah. You're saying

Molly Block: no, but giving her an option at the end

Molly Block: of instead of just like a straight up. No.

Molly Block: and that's a perfect way to handle it. It's a perfect way. but yeah, setting boundaries, I kind of mentioned this as far as, how you communicate with your clients and how when you're working. if you have set hours, like let your client know that and do not Feel obligated to check Slack or check your email or anything. Trello,

Molly Block: whatever you're using after the time

LaTara Dunn: protect your boundary. And I'm gonna tell you this, if you break your boundary, it doesn't matter how nice the client is, they're going to take it too far. And this is not just like one person I've worked with. This is really a lot of the people I've worked with [00:19:00] until I get like super solidified with them and they really understand my boundaries and they know that this is an exception I'm making at this moment. But if you start text, texting your clients or slacking on the weekends or doing a last minute, zoom call or phone call, those kind of things, they're going to come to expect it. so I would stick with your routine, stick with the business operating hours that you know, feels right to you, and know that it's okay

Molly Block: to let that message sit to the next day. if they message you at 8:00 PM your time, whatever time zone you're in, if it's 8:00 PM

Molly Block: it is not necessary for you to respond. It it, you do not need to fix

Molly Block: whatever needs whatever they're talking 

LaTara Dunn: Exactly. when I first started, I was didn't know Slack was a thing and I was only communicating through Facebook Messenger at first because that's where I was finding, a lot of my clients, 

LaTara Dunn: And what I hate about Facebook Messenger is someone can see when [00:20:00] you've read their message. It's the worst.

Molly Block: oh my God,

LaTara Dunn: It's the worst. And it's like, wow, I literally can't answer that now I don't know how to answer it at this moment, right? And then you just have to leave them on read. And then they get mad because they're like, wow, is she just ignoring me?

LaTara Dunn: So I love Slack because you're literally protecting your time and your mental space. you don't have to respond. You can read it if you want, but you don't have to respond. And same with emails. They're not going to know if... They're not going to know if you read their email, right?

LaTara Dunn: it's great. It's awesome. So yeah, protect that time, but then also protect it when it comes to the childcare, the chores, the dinners, all that stuff. So if you can hire out some help, a lot of people think okay, I'm growing in my business. It's time for me to hire a VA. And actually consider hiring a personal assistant versus an assistant that's going to be doing tech work for you or social media work for you because those are the best 

LaTara Dunn: [00:21:00] So let's talk about number four. and it's being intentional about taking breaks during your work day.

LaTara Dunn: This is really going to help you stay, a lot of people are like, Oh, if I take breaks, how am I going to be able to be focused and whatnot? I'm going to keep stepping away from my laptop and it actually makes a massive, massive difference. There have been days where I don't take breaks and come the end of the day, I am so drained and I don't even know what I did all day because my brain has just been like work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, that I actually wasn't intentional.

LaTara Dunn: You know what I mean? Like I'm not being intentional about what I'm doing. So I'm not even giving my brain the opportunity to process what I'm actually doing, right? And so when you take a break, like it's great a lot of people suggest working in those 25 minute blocks, five minute break, 25 minute block, five minute break, bump it up to a 60 minute block, 10 minute break, [00:22:00] go back down to Maybe another 60 or you go back down to your 25 minute block, five minute break.

LaTara Dunn: it really does make a difference and then there are people that are like, no, I have to work three hours straight without a break because it takes me 20 minutes to get back into the focus. So find what, what works for you, but make sure you're taking a break, especially because you work from home. 

Molly Block: And on your break, I mean, one of the most important things, which I forget to do quite often and I'm

Molly Block: trying get at, is actually eat lunch. Like eat something besides just

Molly Block: massive amounts of coffee. make sure to have your water,

Molly Block: know, we gotta hydrate girls and, 

Molly Block: make sure you eat because It's so easy to get wrapped up into that to-do list that you literally don't move from your computer. And you're drained, your

Molly Block: brain's You're like, ah. Take that time to eat. Don't, don't do what I used to do, which is take that time to switch the laundry and vacuum and do this.

LaTara Dunn: like i've said [00:23:00] before my office is not attached to my house,So I have everything I need in my office.

LaTara Dunn: So I actually don't need to leave it. If I don't need to, but that doesn't necessarily mean I actually do use it in that way every day.

LaTara Dunn: and I like make sure to take the longest route from my office to my house so I can be Getting those steps in because it can get tough when you work at home you're like goddamn I do an awful lot of sitting right? 

LaTara Dunn: Sometimes I forget I even have a standing desk because I'm so, focused in like, Oh, wait a minute, these buttons are literally right here, I probably should put my desk in standing mode so I can, switch it up and be intentional about what I'm doing, So those breaks really help make me continuously, gain clarity.

LaTara Dunn: Because, when you're ADHD, sometimes you're focusing on the things that you shouldn't be focusing on, right? because like a lot of times we have our creativity that come up in little blurbs and so we know we need this thing to done in a couple weeks and a week and a [00:24:00] half in and we're like damn We haven't started this and it's because we haven't felt this creativity hit us yet.

LaTara Dunn: We're not in the right mindset. So then it hits us and we're working on it. But Oh, maybe that isn't the right thing for today because there's actually something else that's due today. So like taking those little 

Track 1: Right, exactly. 

latara_1_09-25-2023_104129: like get back to reality. 

Track 1: I agree with everything you're saying. I mean, it's just

Track 1: so important to to take a break and, I think with that, we lead

Track 1: into our final tip, which is a daily review. this is super important. at the end of the day, just taking five to 10 minutes, don't rush. Closing that laptop, especially if you're somebody who gets anxious, you're gonna keep thinking about things. Use five to 10 minutes and go over the to-do list that you started in the beginning of the day. Check off what you've done. Write a new list of what still needs to be done. How are you feeling? are you feeling overwhelmed? You know, are you noticing what's [00:25:00] going on with you? and then, you can adjust your schedule for the next day based on how that previous day ended. So maybe you didn't get as much accomplished as you thought you would. That's okay. It happens. It happens to all of us. Instead of sitting there at your desk and just working and working and working and getting burnt out, just rewriting that, that priority list for the next day. Okay, I didn't get to finish, you know, the website design on client B. let me work on that first and then I'll work on client C and then, you know, finish up a but taking that time to really one, check in with yourself and two, check in on the task tech. Check in on Slack emails. just making sure you kind of conclude as much as you can for that day so you don't have too much rolling over and you don't have to stress or get worried about this endless to-do list because you're not gonna complete [00:26:00] everything every single day.

Track 1: You're going to have things that roll over and we want you to know that's okay. Just like restructuring your next day, can be done in that

Track 1: five to 10 minute time. 

latara_1_09-25-2023_104129: if I don't have a mental checkout then my anxiety just gets so bad 'cause I'm riddled with anxiety from time I get up to time I go to bed.

Track 1: That, I'll walk by my computer and I just, I'll just open it and just check if a client responded to me or, I'll just, I forgot about this, so let me just finish this real quick. Instead of doing that mental checkout for five to 10 minutes to get all my thoughts organized, to make a to-do list for the next day to check off my to-do list from that day, it just helps, especially, like I said, if you're somebody who has anxiety and also somebody who is going to see your desk if you don't have a designated office or if you don't have a designated space for your, you know, desk area for your work.[00:27:00] 

Track 1: and it's somewhere that you're gonna see all the time. Do that mental checkout, I promise you it'll help so much just to alleviate opening that computer multiple times just to check something real quick. We don't wanna do that. Once you're done for the day, you want to close that computer till the next day, treat it like a desk job.

Track 1: You don't see it anymore. It's not visible.

Track 1: so we went over a lot today, but if we just narrow down the, um, five tips were, number one, batch your tasks. Number two, complete small chores. Number three is set boundaries. Four, take those breaks. And five is your daily review. this is an ongoing process. you're not gonna have this nailed down the second you start being a freelancer.

Track 1: and it might even take you a while you meet, you might even have, uh, situations where you don't apply all of these [00:28:00] all the time. But if you try to be conscious of it and apply all five of these throughout your work life, it just makes for a just smoother day, smoother day for work, smoother day for personal life.

Track 1: we hope that these strategies, will get you off on a great start. Let us know if you give any of these a try how you feel, how you felt beforehand, how you felt after. Let us know in the comments. and that's gonna wrap up our episode for today on the Burnout Freelancer podcast. We wanna thank you so much for joining us.

Track 1: Again, we would love to hear from you of any of these tips that you tried, how they worked for you, and please let us know in Thank you so much for listening, and we will chat with you guys next week.