Something that I didn't really realise on this adventure is how much of my waking thought it would take up! There's at lot to think about to be honest. From actually doing photography to meeting clients, to marketing, sales, production. The list seems to go on and on.
So here's the thing. Some how you've got to balance things out. Time for relaxing, family, whatever you need to get through the day. It's been a little harder to manage than I thought it would be. After so many years working for others, it was easy to go home at the end of the day with the work done, and not worry about if the business will survive tomorrow?
In my limited and made up experience, so far, you have to get good at compartmentalise things. It's easier to say than do. Will a young toddler in the house I find it difficult to get the this to work for me. My little one is very daddy centric at the moment which sucks up a lot of my time, leaving not much in the afternoon and evenings for the business or me. It's great being a full time photographer, father, husband and then some where along the line a person too.
I have tried some time management solutions, such as set times for set tasks. Emails in the morning, phone calls after 9:30, to give clients and potential clients time to get settled in to their day and have the first or second coffee of the day. Afternoon is planning or post production, and by the time it's 4pm I have to think of getting dinner started. It's a down side to working from home. The line between home tasks and house tasks is never an easy thing to balance. My wife often gives me a long list of stuff to achieve, and it is hard to explain that this gig is a full time thing. An hour during the day doing a choir is an hour not doing the business. Since there isn't anyone else to pick up the slack, that means it just doesn't get done.
Still part of this post is to help me map this out in my head, figure solutions, and make it work. At the end of the day, above all else, this has to work. The spectre of working at retail, or hospitality scares the pants off me so I HAVE TO MAKE THIS WORK, 'cause there is no way you're going to get me to give up photography.
So for anyone that's listening, comment below, put up your two cents worth and let me know how you deal with this dilema, I'd really like to hear and try something new that might just help me out.
And yes.. I know I have to take a concrete pill and harden up.
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