Schedules are our friends. I admit that up until recently I hadn't thought about a schedule in terms of my company.
Like you, one of the main gripes I have about working a Mon - Fri for someone else is "set hours". I want to be free, free to work when I'm in the mood, so that my work will be at it's best, not when I'm groggy and the end result will suck, blah!
But what I've learned after taking a look back at the last year was that NOT having a schedule has been detrimental to my business. I believe it's one of the main reasons that I have not officially launched my site yet.
On the other hand, I am not saying that I (or you) should continue with a daily grind of 8 - 5 or 9 - 5 either.
You should take an honest look at your personality traits, daily errands, children's schedules (sports, dance etc) and come up with a plan to fit your lifestyle and not the other way around.
Personally I am NOT a morning person and do my best, most creative thinking after 5 pm. So it's natural for me to use my nocturnal hours for projects like writing, creating publicity and marketing plans and networking.
Day hours for emailing, editing and sending out press releases (releases that I create the evening before of course :)
So when I take all of the above into consideration, my schedule (and remember that I am still at my day job until I launch my site officially) looks like this:
Monday
Email Authors
Tuesday
Marketing
Answer Emails
Wednesday
Writing (articles and Blog entries – While dinner is cooking and 9 pm - 10 pm)
Thursday
Input Blog Entries and submit articles (lunch hour)
Marketing
Friday
Email authors
Family Nite
Saturday
10 am – 1 pm and 10 pm to 11 pm
Editing for the wonderful women of Duffie Books
Sunday
Writing 5 pm – 7 pm
Family Nite
I truly believe I will be a lot more productive this way, and I suggest you reign in your wild child and create a schedule as well :)
Happy Business to you all!
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