Robyn Henke
No more vague ClickUp tutorials. I only share what I use myself every. single. day. over my decade of freelancing experience. You can expect relatable stories and uses for ClickUp you'll get to building ASAP.
wtf should i be working on? 😬
The process of... processes 🙃 I don't know if I told you this Reader, but I've basically stopped doing client work to go all in on ClickUp. & I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a bit scary (that's what stepping off the ledge is). But the hardest part has been that at any point, I could be doing 218497234 things to move this new venture forward. Except I'm just one person that only works 6 hours a day at most. I could 100% be paralyzed by a lack of concrete direction... the constant what should...
don't they realize you've got sh*t to do? 😤
What if clients aren't actually annoying + ClickUp can fix it? You know that irritating thing that clients do when you ask them 3 questions and they only respond to 2? 😒 Now that "quick little email" turns into two more, and a whole bunch of waiting around for info. Don't they realize you've got shit to do?? My husband and I got into a little tiff about this the other day. He's annoyed at this "annoying" new client who's being annoying and not answering all his totally not annoying questions....
breaking the silence after 1.5 years 🤐
They should call it *FEAR*lancing bc this shit can be scary as hell A few of my scariest freelancing moments are vivid: > Quitting a full-time job w. toxic energy and going full-time freelance all in the span of 24 hours > Immediately having a full-time client roster and literally no idea what I'm doing > Ditching all of my agency clients that paid me hourly to go all in on my own clients without actually having the clients > Literally right now as I transition from client work to ClickUp...
the antidote to *dreading* client calls 😳
Keeping clients from seeing disorganization in *real-time* There are two ways that live calls can go when you need to find information on the spot. 1. You either navigate to it in 2-3 clicks and immediately share the info. OR... 2. You turn off your screen-sharing, start clicking around trying to find it, laughing nervously, apologizing over and over again, asking for one more minute until you finally say.. "you know what, I'll have to circle back to you on that one" Option 2? That's most...
R U getting organized or *wasting* time? 🙃
When "getting organized" is actually *avoiding* client work Have you ever tried Notion before, Reader? I remember the first time I signed up, I just about fell over with how much FUN I had putting it together. The AESTHETICS were unlike anything I'd experienced before with Asana or Teamwork. Could business organization actually be pretty? I built and built and built... I probably dumped a stupid amount of hours into it, all the while feeling real productive. But when it was all said and done,...
"I noticed a mistake..." < worst fear come true 🫣
How to be the *perfect freelancer* who drops zero balls I have quite possibly the coolest passport photo. 😎 I look like a spy sent to gather intel for James Bond or some shit. But when I look at it, I remember how hard that day was and how badly I fkd up with a client bc of it. Back before I was full-time freelance, I joined two founders to start their digital agency. It was fast paced, I learned SO MUCH it was insane, but some of that speed came at a cost. On the day I got that photo taken,...
stop watching *bullshit* ClickUp tutorials 😇
Friends of mine own a store here in town called The Artful Barkeep, and people keep walking in thinking its a bakery. 🤔 This got me thinking, Reader: You should probably know what the Focus Framework is not (besides not being a bakery)... It's not another mostly irrelevant $47 template on Etsy that someone threw together in hopes of getting summa'that passive income everyone's drooling over 🤤 It's not a generic ClickUp University course that's created for the every Tom, Dick, and Sally who...
planning 6 things, finishing none 😮💨
If you read my email the other day, then you know why YOUR HOT READER SUMMER needs to be spent taming that freelance beast... 👹 It's the difference between secretly resenting your work and LOVING it for all that it makes possible. (hello long weekends, planned time off, and starting work at 10am) I'm just *guessing here* but I doubt you became a freelancer to work longer & harder You probably didn't visualize more hours and less money? It's highly unlikely that lying awake thinking about...
how to not think about work after 5pm
Yee-haw, Happy Canada's Day to my fellow Canucks. 🇨🇦 My husband and I celebrated up on a stage... actually two stages but I don't have a photo of either so here is last years 🤪 If there's one thing I fkn LOVE most about freelancing since ClickUp came into my life... On weekends and evenings, I don't think about work for a single second. Even at my busiest, I haven't thought about client work outside of working hours in forever. When I check off that last to-do in my master task list and it's...
for all my fellow catastrophizers
There's this fun personality trait I've had since birth (thanks mom) that really doesn't jive with entrepreneurship. My husband is late getting home: HE MUST HAVE GOTTEN INTO AN ACCIDENT. My dog ate something on our walk: HE'S GOING TO DIE IN FRONT OF MY EYES. Panic mode. Catastrophizing. Drama llama. Whatever you wanna call it, I got it good. So obviously when I tried to launch Focus Framework on Monday and ended up losing 26 subscribers and reaching absolutely no one because of some tech...
No more vague ClickUp tutorials. I only share what I use myself every. single. day. over my decade of freelancing experience. You can expect relatable stories and uses for ClickUp you'll get to building ASAP.