Week 6 - Put your oxygen mask first 😲

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Yurii Lazaruk
March 23, 2025

The week after the illness wasn’t easier, and the closer we’re to Freelance Unlocked and creating new features for 9am and Freelance Academy, the more client work I have 😲

So for 5 days, I left the task “Work on my business 30 minutes” for the end of the day till the very moment when my wife was home and wanted me alive, not being a work zombie 😅

Every day, around 8-9 pm, when I had the only daily task left, I would have the same dialogue with myself:

“Should I sacrifice my sanity and do something mediocre for 30 minutes or rest and have quality time with my family?”

For sure, I chose rest and family.

And I can totally understand myself - it’s so easy to slack on something only you care about and are responsible for (such as building your business) rather than doing clients’ work where you have deadlines and others involved.

It’s like getting immediate gratification (or punishment, it depends 😅) and investing in something long-term.

So, I decided to start every week by working on my business for 30 minutes straight (literally use a timer for that and stop the moment it’s off) and continue with the clients’ work afterward.

Because I can sacrifice doing something for myself (and I believe many freelancers and solopreneurs are guilty of this), but I’ll finish the clients’ work no matter what!

So, here is my main takeaway from this week:

If you’re balancing between your business and clients’ work - help yourself first!

 

However, I have an action plan for the next week ready, and here’s what I’ll work on:

  • Reach out to startup and scaleup founders using the technique from this video

  • Create a master your LinkedIn profile playbook,

  • Transcribe 10 latest creator spotlight videos from here and create a step-by-step plan of how to supercharge my content-creating process to ensure I’m visible to my potential clients.

Also, because of Irina’s feedback, I understood that you might have expected to get the link to The Business Community Playbook in the previous newsletter, so here it is :)

If you have questions, thoughts, ideas, or any feedback about it, message me right away, and if you know someone interested in building a community around their business, please share this playbook with them 🤗🤗

Daily actions:

If you have any thoughts, ideas, or questions, please 👇

And if you’d like to walk The Road To $1M+ Freelance Business with me 👇

See you next week! 👋