Episode 118: Day 2 - 7 Day Nurse to Writer Challenge

Welcome to DAY TWO of the 7 Day Nurse to Writer Challenge. If you haven't listened to the prior episode, I recommend you go back and start at Episode 116.

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Here we go into DAY 2!

Time Management

Today we’re diving into time management.

I love this topic because it’s how I grew my business from 0 to $15K in my first year as a writer, with only working 4 hours a week.

I have perfected my time management over time, but with the changing “seasons of life” (ahem, COVID-19, and virtual learning), changing the way I work in my business time is critical to my business growth.

There are three time management activities that I want you to take on in this challenge. Each of them will be presenting over the next few days. Those three are:

1. The Hour of Power

2. The Ideal Workweek

3. Batching

Time management helps you work smarter to work LESS.

Let’s start with the Hour of Power!

Back when I started my business, in 2015, I had some stressors/life responsibilities:

• My kids were 2 and 10 years old
• I had my husband
• A Great Dane Puppy
• I was completing my BSN online
• I was still working full time
• My son was in baseball
• My other son had preschool and private speech therapy

I had the thought, “Maybe I’ll quit the business. No, I will just quit school.I feel like a bad mom, wife, and student.”

Then, I realized I just needed ONE hour to myself for my business. THAT’S when I discovered my hour of power.

My hour of power was the time when my son went to preschool.

This was when I was

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