Apart from worrying that the lease on my flat isn't going to get renewed and I'll be looking for yet another home, I'm actually struggling with too much work.
I work for myself and although it's great to be this busy (this month has been a record-breaker income-wise) I'm also working 10-12 hour days to get it all done. Which is why this blog didn't get updated much before I (foolishly) decided to do a blog every day challenge!
It's a great position to be in and I'd much rather have too much work than not enough which was my previous worry, but I'm so busy that I can't get time to figure out what to do. The problem is that people hire me to do the work because that's where the value is for them. I can outsource some of one of my businesses and I'm talking to a woman I think can help me with that later today actually, but my problem is that I also like to be busy - and yet I complain about it! See the catch 22 there?
I've got a Scanner personality so I like to have lots of things on the go. I run 2 businesses, I crochet in the evenings, I've started to write a new resource/authority site so I can make money from affiliates in the long-term, and that's without all the usual things like shopping, seeing people, finding time to eat, catching up on reading useful online articles, scheduling social media, writing posts for 2 business and one personal blog, reading books for fun, watching TV, going out... I feel knackered just reading that actually.
On one hand I've gotten a lot of those things down to a fine art, am good at time management, and love what I do, and on the other hand I can also faff around a lot and probably don't use my time as productively as I could. I also kind of suspect that if I did manage to sort it out so I got quieter then I'd immediately look for more things to do!
Turning down work feels weird but I just can't take on any more at the moment. But I still try to. I know the world won't come crashing down if I take some time off or turn away work, but somehow I seem to pressure myself by thinking I should try and fit it all in - make hay while the sun shines kind of thing. I'm busy with both businesses and the yearly work on the festival hasn't even begun yet - my God I'd probably explode when that work comes in!
Anyway, that's my struggle right now - trying to get everything done. Right better get going - I've got a shit load of things to do!
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