As my business has evolved and grown over the years I’ve had to reimagine my weeks and rejig how I do things. An exercise I do with my clients is creating a time map. This is where we imagine their ideal week and map it out on their calendar – colour coded and all! If they could have their world at this moment in time exactly as they wanted it, what would it look like? Morning routines, evening routines, social life, work hours, everything!

I create a time map every evolution that my business takes. Years back I was juggling a part-time job and my business. I had my client days mapped out, my marketing time and I had social time. That time map looked very different to how it does now but still reflected back to me the priorities that I wished to honour. When I moved to full-time business my time map changed again. And then when COVID hit I rejigged it to ground me and keep me motivated. At the start of this year, I revisited my time map and ensured that research time and writing time were built into my week. I keep Mondays free of meetings and clients so I can use this time to work on the business. It’s not something I’d have had to do a year and a half ago so there was a nice celebration also wrapped up in the exercise!