Streamlined Solopreneur: Automate Your Business, Take Time Off Worry-Free How Are You Protecting Your Time as a Solopreneur?
The summer had one lasting effect I didn’t notice until recently: I made my schedule pretty open for anyone who wanted to meet. I didn’t want them to be limited to my limited availability, so I tried to be as open as possible. But over the last 2 weeks —really since my episode with Conny, I realized that I’ve let everyone else control my calendar.
I’ll take a meeting with almost anyone bc I feel they are the best way to form relationships, but I’m not vetting those people. I’m not creating boundaries for my meetings either. I even have a calendar that’s totally open for friends — but I’ve sent it to more than friends.
If you’re a busy solopreneur — especially a parent or someone with other obligations — this can kill productivity.
So how do we fix it? That’s what we’re talking about today.
- One Big Problem: I’m not guarding my time
- One Small Fix: Cal.com
- Feedback: Working with a VA
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Top Takeaways
- You need to control your own calendar instead of letting other people control it.
- That means asking yourself when you can block time off for no meetings, how many meetings you want to take in a day, and what’s the criteria for if you take a meeting or not.
- Cal.com is an excellent tool for creating a system that will manage your calendar for you.
Show Notes
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Streamlined Solopreneur is the podcast for solopreneurs who want to automate their business and take time off worry-free. Each week, Joe Casabona shares practical systems, tools, and strategies to help you reclaim your time and run your business without sacrificing your the rest of your life, or your health.
Start with the free Solopreneur Sweep — a step-by-step method for finding where your business is losing time: https://streamlined.fm/sweep
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