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...
5 days ago • 2 min read
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...
7 days ago • 1 min read
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...
13 days ago • 1 min read
Reader, If you read my email yesterday, then you know why your *sole focus* this summer should be on DIALING IN YOUR CLICKUP SYSTEMS. It’s the difference between drowning in client work chaos and managing your workload like a PRO. (If you didn't read yesterdays email bc you don't care about the Focus Framework rn, click here to mute the promo and mum's the word 🤫) & let’s be so fkn for real right now… → You're bouncing between 47 different views trying to find something that doesn't make you...
15 days ago • 2 min read
Reader, Last year, a prospective client asked me for help with something that sounded simple... but I fkn knew better. Pre-ClickUp me would have went into analysis paralysis mode. They had no idea what they needed – they just wanted to "sell tickets to an event" (So simple, right??) One discovery call later and I whipped up a proposal that pulled together ALL of my skillsets to make it happen: from messaging, landing pages, social media, social ads, email marketing... Had I done a project...
16 days ago • 1 min read
Run away or face your task list? When I feel overwhelmed, I have this all-consuming sensation of wanting to run tf away. Like... where am I going? Obviously you can't outrun your thoughts, Robyn. I recently started running again after a minor knee surgery in 2023 and I felt like a dog off leash for the first time. Until I went too hard in full strides like a fucking speed demon on the indoor track and re-injured it... It felt SO GOOD to run full tilt and act like I don't fill my lungs daily...
20 days ago • 1 min read
April 2022 we drove six hours to an Amish town for a puppy we had no business getting. The week before our wedding I'm sobbing in a field because this dog is a nightmare, barking, lunging, losing his absolute mind over everything. For someone who gets overwhelmed easily? I was a SHELL of myself. Fast-forward to 3-years in and I finally know how to manage him. If you're a dog person, you know exactly what I mean when you finally develop that special, unspoken language with your furry friend. 🥹...
27 days ago • 2 min read
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 beginning I'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...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
There's a chair in the corner of my bedroom (which is also my office) and it's ALWAYS covered in clothes. I let this thing get mountainous before I finally reach my breaking point. After working from home for 10 years, for a fact I can say that working in a messy space fuels my anxiety. And for real, being a freelancer can be super anxiety-inducing. Being an entrepreneur of any kind is a lot. I keep telling my friend who's also a business owner that the constant chaos & problem solving is...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
