HW5!
Y’all are being so quiet that I have no HW5!s to pass out today. If you’re busy achieving wootness, then HW5! to you!
EMAIL TIME CONTROL
Okay, every day we’ve been keeping up on the email and paring down the number of unnecessary emails that litter our inbox. Now I want you to pare down the amount of time you spend on email. There is absolutely NO REASON that you should have your email program open all day. I check mine when I first get into the office, answer what is urgent and close down the program. I reserve the last hour of my day for answering email and doing social media updates. If you do these things throughout the day, it is SO EASY to get sidetracked into cruising Facebook or reading funny joke emails or anything other than work. Stay away from these things during the work day so that you can concentrate on shooting, editing, retouching, ordering, etc. Those are the activities that increase the bottom line.
So – schedule yourself certain blocks of times to do these activities and stick to it.
SCHEDULE SOME TIME OFF
We’ve been hard at it for 10 days. Wootness! Time for a break
Let’s talk about our schedule. I work almost every single day, but I think it’s important to schedule some downtime. I was recently chatting with some photog buddies and one of them remarked that when she is sitting around with nothing to do, she automatically reaches for photography work to fill the time. I think a lot of us are guilty of this. It’s who we are. It’s what we do.
Don’t lose site of who you really are. We’re moms, dads, siblings, children, animal-lovers, stamp-collectors and amateur chefs. Take time to immerse yourself back into the non-photography parts of your life. Put down the camera, put away the laptop and take some time off.
Schedule at least one day off a week. Put it on paper. Right now.
DAILY LIST
1. Process mail.
2. Update bank deposit, if applicable..
3. Email flush.
4. Backlog/Work Load
5. Financial/accounting updates
TODAY:
- Daily List
- Retouching orders
- Print order day (one of my weekly tasks)
- Filing (ongoing job for me because I gutted my office)