Friday, October 25, 2019
The past two days I have been focused on client work. I learned, when I was treating my cancer with chemotherapy the first time, how to get the most work done in the shortest amount of time and to work ahead as much as possible. When possible, I schedule social media posts up to four months in advance. I create images in batches. By the end of today, I will have 90 percent of my November client work completed. Then I will start on December client work.
I do not know how my upcoming chemotherapy treatments will affect me. My previous chemotherapy did not make me nauseous; however, it did make me very tired. The tiredness decreased as the chemotherapy killed the bad cells, and it barely affected me after I had the last two treatments. Dr. Doom and Gloom told me fewer people have bad reactions to the chemotherapy I will be starting than have bad reactions to the chemotherapy I was taking.
Unfortunately, fewer people having bad reactions does not mean I will not be one of those few. Therefore, I am still working with a “do it all now, for tomorrow I may be too sick” mentality. I spend two or three days a month doing as much early work as possible and then approximately one day a week working on the unexpected tasks or tasks that I am not able to schedule ahead.
I cut back to eight monthly clients when I got very sick last year and have decided to keep working for them until I start to get sick again. Six to ten client workdays a month still fits into my exceptional exit plan. I have still made marketing strategy sessions available for new clients because those are a one-time service that offer clients a lot of benefit, even if they will need to find another provider to help them implement their strategic plan.
It would be nice to blast ahead on my 500 written words every day from now until I am too sick to write, but alas, I cannot possibly know what I am feeling or what crazy thoughts will be running through my head tomorrow or next week. I can only backdate my thoughts by writing a couple of sentences and then elaborating another day on days I am not in the mood to write.
I have built in a little work I can do ahead for the publishing side of my journal. I asked my friends not to ask me about my cancer, because I would rather not spend my last days talking cancer all the time. I told them I would post my ramblings on a blog and they could read it if they choose. I started my journal October 5, 2019 and I am starting my blog posts November 1, 2019. I write in my journal every day; I will be posting my journal entries to my blog every other day.
That schedule means every month, my journal will get two months ahead of my blog. If I can squeak out another five good years, you could be reading my thoughts as new posts five years after I die. That would be a hoot!
My piece of advice to you is not to squander your time. If you own your own business, hire an efficiency expert to help you create or streamline your systems (I know a great one; I will hook you up with her.) so you can spend your time in a way you feel is more important. Create your own exceptional exit plan. Imagine you will die in three years or less (I am still planning for three years, although I do not think Dr. Doom and Gloom thinks I will make it that long.) and do those tasks you would regret not doing.
Until next time,
Susanne
Please check out my GoFundMe page.
The past two days I have been focused on client work. I learned, when I was treating my cancer with chemotherapy the first time, how to get the most work done in the shortest amount of time and to work ahead as much as possible. When possible, I schedule social media posts up to four months in advance. I create images in batches. By the end of today, I will have 90 percent of my November client work completed. Then I will start on December client work.
I do not know how my upcoming chemotherapy treatments will affect me. My previous chemotherapy did not make me nauseous; however, it did make me very tired. The tiredness decreased as the chemotherapy killed the bad cells, and it barely affected me after I had the last two treatments. Dr. Doom and Gloom told me fewer people have bad reactions to the chemotherapy I will be starting than have bad reactions to the chemotherapy I was taking.
Unfortunately, fewer people having bad reactions does not mean I will not be one of those few. Therefore, I am still working with a “do it all now, for tomorrow I may be too sick” mentality. I spend two or three days a month doing as much early work as possible and then approximately one day a week working on the unexpected tasks or tasks that I am not able to schedule ahead.
I cut back to eight monthly clients when I got very sick last year and have decided to keep working for them until I start to get sick again. Six to ten client workdays a month still fits into my exceptional exit plan. I have still made marketing strategy sessions available for new clients because those are a one-time service that offer clients a lot of benefit, even if they will need to find another provider to help them implement their strategic plan.
It would be nice to blast ahead on my 500 written words every day from now until I am too sick to write, but alas, I cannot possibly know what I am feeling or what crazy thoughts will be running through my head tomorrow or next week. I can only backdate my thoughts by writing a couple of sentences and then elaborating another day on days I am not in the mood to write.
I have built in a little work I can do ahead for the publishing side of my journal. I asked my friends not to ask me about my cancer, because I would rather not spend my last days talking cancer all the time. I told them I would post my ramblings on a blog and they could read it if they choose. I started my journal October 5, 2019 and I am starting my blog posts November 1, 2019. I write in my journal every day; I will be posting my journal entries to my blog every other day.
That schedule means every month, my journal will get two months ahead of my blog. If I can squeak out another five good years, you could be reading my thoughts as new posts five years after I die. That would be a hoot!
My piece of advice to you is not to squander your time. If you own your own business, hire an efficiency expert to help you create or streamline your systems (I know a great one; I will hook you up with her.) so you can spend your time in a way you feel is more important. Create your own exceptional exit plan. Imagine you will die in three years or less (I am still planning for three years, although I do not think Dr. Doom and Gloom thinks I will make it that long.) and do those tasks you would regret not doing.
Until next time,
Susanne
Please check out my GoFundMe page.