I have this funny video I took at a hostel in Chile from 2019. Panning from my husband's bunk over to my bunk: mine's covered in shit and his is clean somehow? Fewer things make me rage more than living out of a bag and never being able to find things... Which can be a lot like ClickUp in the beginningI'm seeing a pattern with every Power Hour I do: ClickUp is helping but it's also causing more stress. It helps: bc finally there's somewhere to store all the scattered info and tasks, and it's obvious how much it can do. But it can EASILY pile on to an already anxious feeling by being "disorganized" and overwhelming. โLast week I suggested that you streamline your task status and task types. But how does that make managing clients *easier*?& when I say easy I mean:
It doesn't take an hour to figure out what to work on. โ You haven't written a paper checklist in forever. โ Serene. Focused. In complete control. โ โ Actually enjoying client work and getting paid what you're worth. When your settings are streamlined:You unlock powerful high-level views that let you zoom out to track progress across all clients and create a daily plan that actually gets done (and still finish by 5). With custom task statuses, custom task types, all that*extra crap* you don't need:You're trying to look at everything at once. ๐ฅฒ ... But when task types and task statuses are the same, and you use those powerful high-level views... Instead of being paralyzed by everything that could be done: You're only seeing what you planned to do right now. You can fully focus and drive your work forward. (Don't sleep on the power of momentum, my friends) You end up saving tangible HOURS every day not doing the overwhelm dance. If your ClickUp feels like a hot mess, trust me... it's not a you problem.It took me YEARS of testing and learning (I took a whole year off client work to do this btw) to FINALLY crack the ClickUp code and holy shitballs, it's been cloud9 ever since. The struggle is real but the payoff is worthy. If you're sick of ClickUp tutorial videos that are not at all what you need, but you're dedicated to making it work: The Focus Framework is coming REAL SOON. Join the waitlist if you want first-access to the discounted price and a special bonus offer ๐
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Friends of mine own a store here in town called The Artful Barkeep, and people keep walking in thinking its a bakery. ๐ค 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 ๐คค It's not a generic ClickUp University course that's created for the every Tom, Dick, and Sally who...
If you read my email the other day, then you know why YOUR HOT READER SUMMER needs to be spent taming that freelance beast... ๐น 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...
Yee-haw, Happy Canada's Day to my fellow Canucks. ๐จ๐ฆ 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 ๐คช 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...