Are you feeling a little overwhelmed and over stretched in your business?

Do you find yourself working well into the evenings, responding to customers at all hours of the day? It could be time to revisit your boundaries.

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭.

You need to communicate this with your customers, and manage their expectations, so that your work doesn’t impinge on the time you need with your family or for yourself.

For example:

🔸 Have an out of office responder on your email or phone which explains which days you work and when they can expect a response

🔸 Do not reply to people on social media channels at 10pm at night if you’re going to be irritated by them continuing to message at that time

🔸 If you do work late in to the evening sending emails, schedule them to go out in the morning, rather than your customer seeing you’re working at 11pm at night

🔸 Carve out time during the week for business admin/planning and ring fence that at all costs

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐮𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐮𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮.