Ok, so you’ve got your freedom and work for yourself but are you starting to find it’s all work and no play?

Increasingly and particularly for freelancers and contractors projects often exceed initial expectations, or the drought of the early years has instilled a ‘grab it while you can’ mentality and there is simply too much to do!

What happens is that work spills into evenings and then weekends and before you know it, you have no life at all and your friends have almost forgotten who you are!

Is there another way? Well yes, over time experience helps you to pretty accurately gauge project size and not take too much on but there’s also some merit in replacing a few of those work goals with life goals. A few examples?

• One afternoon off a week
• 2 sessions at the gym per week
• Learn to meditate
• Run the marathon

This new section of Freelance Advisor promises to challenge your over work-cooked mind and help you to start looking at the possibilities at obtaining that true Nirvana; a work / life balance!

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