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Ever feel like you're dropping the ball when it comes to managing your own business and client work? Transitioning from a structured 9-to-5 job to self-employment brings unique challenges—especially when it comes to self-management. 

In this episode, I’m getting real about how hard it is to manage yourself when there's no one telling you what to do, and how this crucial skill impacts everything from your communication to your ability to meet deadlines. Without a clear HR department guiding your daily tasks, you're left to figure out how to prioritize, meet deadlines, and maintain both your business and your client relationships.

Listen in to learn more about

• Balancing Life and Business: How to navigate through personal crises and stressful seasons while staying on top of work.
• Client Expectations vs. Reality: Hear about my own challenges with a client and how guilt and lack of prioritization can set you back.
• Juggling Multiple Roles: Managing both your business and your clients' businesses—and why it can feel overwhelming at times.
• Insights from a recent Workgroup training with Dallas Travers on how to handle scope creep, micromanagement, and boundary-setting with clients.

Tune in to hear how self-management plays an important role in both your success and sanity as a business owner and how you can start to get a handle on it, even when life feels chaotic. 

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Links mentioned in the Show:

• Episode 219: Virtual Assistant Boundaries: Saying NO 
• Episode 215: Releasing Regrets and Managing Stress as a Marketing Service Provider with Victoria Muir-Burcea
• Episodes 170-173: Mindset Series with Tracy Litt, MaryAnn Gramig, and Celi Arias

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Freelancers are their own bosses. This means we're responsible. This means we value autonomy. And with that comes the responsibility to self manage. We owe it to ourselves and we owe it to our clients.

Hey, everyone, I'm Emily Reagan and you've discovered unicorns unite. This is a podcast for freelancers, service providers, virtual assistants, and curious listeners who would like to experience the freedom and.

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Hey, hey, hey. Welcome back to the show. I want to have a very realistic conversation with you about self management. That's because I think it's one of the hardest things to do. When you have switched from employee to self employed, you no longer have super clear daily task and responsibilities and you're kind of left on your own. That's why Natasha in Udma school recently said that my training was like having the HR department walk you through what you're supposed to be doing, because you're supposed to just figure it out. And that is really difficult when you're juggling a lot. So I want to have a realistic conversation about this because self management leads into all the other soft skills that I talk about that are so critical.

Being able to communicate, being able to stay organized, being able to be reliable and have follow through. It all starts with self management. And here's the thing that really sucks. When we're self employed, we don't get paid. When we take vacation, we have to keep going because we are not paid hourly, we're not paid like a salary. And so in the seasons of hustle and the seasons when life gets hard, stressful things happen, big life events happen. We've had all kinds of people experiencing, you know, sickness, death in the family, divorce, job changes, moves. You have to be able to keep going or you don't get paid.

Just straight up truth. So being self managed sets you up for those moments as well. So I made a post recently in my free Facebook group about being self managed, and that's because it's been coming at me from different angles. First of all, I find myself slacking with a client and I want to call myself out and I keep thinking, I'm going to get to it. I'm going to get to it. I owe her a report. And then I keep putting it at the bottom of the stack while I'm choosing to not prioritize that, especially as I go into a launch. But I have this like, heavy, heavy guilt feeling and this feeling like I can't keep up.

I'm also seeing this on my team. I've seen some balls drop from different people on my team. I've had that experience on the past on my team, and it's not a good feeling from the client side. I also recently talked to my own client about it and what his and customers struggle with. And that same topic came up, although they used different words, they didn't say self management. A lot of the people, we were doing some VoC gathering and market research, a lot of people were saying, like, I'm the one to blame. The man in the mirror. I kind of laugh at that.

It's the Michael Jackson man in the mirror who's causing the business to crumble. And to me, that's the same thing as self management. And then I also sent an email out and got a really good response. I want to talk about today from one of my unicorns in the workgroup who's doing really well. It just made me think about this topic in general. Like, clearly this is coming up. You know, I've had some episodes about the softer side of business when it comes to burnout, when it comes to boundaries, when it comes to letting it go. And we've done a lot on mindset.

We've had some really good episodes about imposter syndrome and the inner critic. And we even had a training the other week in the work group where my friend Dallas Travers came in and coached us on how to say things. And really it came down to, in order to take the initiative and communicate with clients when things aren't going well, it came down to you or us as the service provider, stepping up and doing the thing we needed to do and being even self managed when it came to enforcing our boundaries. So Dallas gave us really good scripts on how to handle situations, like when we're being micromanaged, when the scope is creeping and all of that. So if you're in the work group, definitely go listen to that one. We have a script for that as well. So you can steal the smart words, because I know we all get, you know, hot and sweaty and sometimes go dumb in those moments where we need to really step it up. So traditional roles in the nine to five, we're told how and when to work.

But as a virtual assistant, as any kind of freelance marketing service provider, it means you set your own schedule, you prioritize your task, you take initiative without oversight, you own your own workflows. I mean, our client sometimes has ways of doing things, but it's ultimately, you meet deadlines and you have to stay organized, and that affects how you deliver the final project to the client. And you're also adapting to the ever changing needs of your clients. But self management is also twofold because there's your business on top of it. So it's like double the work. It's your business and it's your client's business. But the cool thing is self management means you have freedom. You know, you have the freedom to create flexibility, to have awareness of how and when you work.

Like, it's a really beautiful thing to be able to balance your professional and personal life in the way that works best for you. So what do you need to be more structured? How do you work best and have that self awareness? So when I put this post in the Facebook group, one of our work group members was like, I really struggle with this. And she's been freelancing four years later. So I'm like, great, I'm glad I hit a nerve. And so I just kind of wrote back. I have learned in the last few weeks, especially with all that I have going on, between managing the kids sports schedules, my client work, my business, and my launch and my team, I have been dropping the ball. And so my friend Ashley Chanel got on me and made me time block better. And I thought I was doing a good job.

But what I wasn't scheduling in necessarily was the work time for my business. I had client a's stuff in there, I had client b stuff in there. I had the podcast in there. But I wasn't scheduling in when I needed to write the email, which was a priority, me writing my own emails. And so work group member wrote back and said, this gives me the corporate ickley feeling. I get it, but this is really about being self managed. It doesn't mean rigidity, it doesn't mean you don't have flexibility. But what is the outcome? You know, when you're off work, you know, when you get to go play.

I now can agree to playing pickleball Friday mornings because I have scheduled my work. I know it's fun to just wake up and work on whatever you feel like it, whenever you feel like it. That's not always the best. It really depends on you. So I want you to look at the woman in the mirror, the unicorn in the mirror and figure that out. Maybe you should try it. I really pushed back. I had a lot of resistance and it's helping me right now.

I don't know how much longer I can keep it up, but I have it scheduled to the max. It makes me want to cry, like, looking at my week. However, it's giving me the structure to get things done so I don't drop the ball. Okay, so one thing that stood out to me, and we'll get more into time blocking in a second. I'm not saying that's the answer to everything, but I just want to call out a couple personal stories. So you're like, oh, you don't just, like, say, I know it all. That's not gonna work for me, and, like, turn off the podcast. That's what I don't want.

I want you to be open minded. Please, please, please. So, one thing I really pulled out when Dallas was in our work group, teaching how to work better with coaching clients, was this whole project management 101, communicating the status of where something is meeting a deadline, knowing your priority list, knowing what you are actually capable of getting done. So you can communicate that to the client. And you have to be self managed and organized. Otherwise, you turn into a yes girl. You just say yes, and then you hate your life because you realize that was not actually realistic. And I should have said that in the moment.

And now I got to walk it back, and what do I say? So, this awareness, this tracking of where things are at, this extra effort to stay organized, will pay off. One of my favorite quotes that I think all of you could steal for your own marketing is this Benjamin Franklin quote. I know. It's, like, really good. I think about what Marisa teaches us. Start off with a quote or a fact. Okay, here it is. For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned to.

Let me repeat that again. For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned. To me, that's what self management lets you do. It's like the freedom to win your time back so in the moment, you can communicate to the client. Actually, we already have these priority projects. I know that because I'm organized and I'm self managed. And in this moment, I can go ahead and head this off before it becomes a problem. Okay, so what do we need to do to be better? What do we need to communicate to our clients status where the project is right now, what the deadline is.

Are we going to meet the deadline? Because the clients expect you to meet it. And if you can't, you need to communicate that, and not just 05:00 p.m. that day, it's due, and be able to really know what's on the priority, like, what is the burning fire that I need to work on now, and what can go in the parking lot for later if things don't pan out. So one thing I have realized that I think we struggle with being self managed because we are doing a too much for too many clients. And if you are a va, you get it because at the beginning we just say yes to all of the work, which is, I think, a great, great way to get started. But pretty soon it's on us to narrow that down, self manage, select out what we want to do. You know, we've been creating the awareness we've been getting, the clarity, the experience, and start shedding that. And if you are doing a thousand little things for a thousand little clients, you will go crazy.

So I want to talk about context switching really fast because I didn't know this was a thing, and at one point I was juggling way too many clients and I didn't know this was not okay and not good for my brain. Context switching is when you're shifting your attention between different tasks, projects, or even clients. When you're working on multiple projects for various clients, they all have their own requirements, goals, timelines, and switching between them. Is it just hard on your brain? It's mentally taxing. It reduces your productivity. I'm going to call myself out right now, and it's really easy for me to have all these tabs open. Like be switching around, looking for one tab, see something else, and be like, oh yeah, I was doing that. And then, oh yeah, I was doing that.

And be working on three things at once. So multitasking is what that is. It makes you feel crazy, and it's not okay. Multitasking is actually bad for you. Now, contact switching is problematic because you lose your focus every time you switch. Yeah, this mental shift just requires energy. It is what it is, and it can take a couple minutes or longer to fully focus. So you're losing time.

We're trying to be efficient. We're trying to self manage. We're trying to manage our time, too. Context switching reduces efficiency. You're jumping from one task to another. It means you're never really fully immersed in a single task, and this can slow down your work. And so this is also why I love to encourage you to start shifting toward project rates. And getting out of the hourly mindset because of efficiency is actually better off for your clients to move to project rates.

I actually have a script. If you go over to Instagram and you dm me revisit, I'll send you the script on how to do this because it's all in how you rephrase it, right? How can I get the clients to buy in that they actually get better quality work? This is why right here. So again, just dm me revisit. I'll send that over. I'll have some posts about that soon too. Trust me, it's all perfectly coordinated. Increased errors when you are switching a lot, it's easy to make mistakes or overlook or not, like completely go through things. People on my team are doing this.

I've done this for clients on the client side. When I start to see errors and sloppy work, you're getting close to fired because it shows me you're not paying attention to my business. You don't really care and it has eroded our trust. It's really hard to come back from that. Probably like the best tip, you can walk away from this podcast right now, stop context switching and do your best work because that client is your biggest referral network. You turn in, you know, shitty work, you start putting in that seed of doubt, you start turning in everything rushed on a Friday at 459, that does not look good and it's going to destroy the working relationship and it's going to destroy your reputation. You can see why it's also not your fault because you've said yes to things you probably shouldn't have. Go listen to the boundaries episode.

You've taken on too many clients. They're not paying you enough. I mean, do you see how this is all related to moving out of the hourly task rabbit roll and being a little bit more specialized in shifting into project rates? Like, is it coming together for you? Are you having your aha that it's not really your fault? Yeah, you started there, but now it's time to move on and move out and do better because you don't want to continue like this. I think the mental fatigue is what is really hitting me. Now that I am 43, I can't just start up again. And there are times of the day where I'm just better. I used to work a lot in the evenings. I talk about this a lot, but I don't now because I have a slower performance.

Things take me twice as long. If I'm trying to force writing in the late afternoon, my best time is morning, and I know that. And adding on context switching makes mental fatigue even worse. Also, get your sleep. Self care. Erica diamond and I talked about that recently. Like, it sounds so basic that it's so true when you're staying up too late, trying to rush and complete all the client projects, and you're like, I'll just stay up late and wake up a little earlier. Like then your mental prowess just starts to, you know, decrease.

So let's give an example of context switching. Let's say you're a freelancer. You have three clients. Client a needs you to write blog content. Client B needs you to do a marketing launch strategy. Client C needs some updates on a website. So if you start working on client A's blog posts, then take a break to answer client C's strategy and then jump over to making tweaks on a website, your brain has shifted from three different tasks and you have to recall the details of each project and switch between platforms and software and reorient yourself to the task. I mean, there are things I like to do, like have project management tools, have all the clients resources close to me so I can quickly open them up, see where I'm at, make notes to myself what I was doing next, like really project manage myself.

Per client, I love to use one tab. It decreases all of the tabs into one client folder. It's a chrome extension. I highly recommend it. Like there's things you can do to make it easier. Have you heard that principle where they got more efficient at work, got things done faster? When the bricklayer just put the pile of bricks closer to him or her, instead of getting up and walking up to get a brick, the pile is now right by her feet. That is kind of the principle of project management for each client. So every time I open an email, I have a link to my UTM tracking sheet.

So it's just right there. So I'm not hunting and searching for it. I mean, I feel like I spend a lot of time hunting and searching for things. So anytime I can index and just put the pile of bricks closer to me, it makes it go faster, right? Like in each podcast guest Asana card, you'll find a link to their Google folder where all their stuff is. You'll find a link to the otter transcript so somebody could quickly get it. Like that's kind of the principle I'm talking about here. That can help with context switching and goes with being self managed. And it helps you stay organized, but you also have to eradicate it.

So how can you get rid of it? And it's not just about going faster and harder every day and hustling more. I guess that was my point of that. It's about minimizing the context switching. Yes, faster efficient increases your profit rate, especially if you're out of the hourly category. But now we got to minimize the context switching. And I coach a lot of this in our one on one calls with our unicorns. So here's what I recommend. Batching similar tasks so all your writing tasks get done in the morning.

That's when your brain's on. Maybe the afternoon is something a little bit less mentally consuming, like for me, that's Pinterest or graphic design. The next day, do strategic planning. Don't do all three of those in the same day. Reduce the need to constantly adjust your mindset. Time blocking I already hinted at that, that we have such resistance to, but use time blocks to schedule for each client. For instance, client a first 2 hours of Monday. Client B is the next block of time.

And now you're not mixing the clients during that period. And what's great is now the clients know when you're working and when you're available. So I call this like client office hours. I'm working on your stuff Monday, but you don't want to overshare if you don't need to. But if you have a project coming in and you need some extra communication, if a client knows when you are working on their stuff and there might be some back and forth maybe on voxer and clarity questions, they feel really good. They don't need you to drop what you're doing and do it right now. They just need to know when you're going to do it and when it'll be done by. So time blocking is a big one.

Last night I was going to the open gym. The girls were playing around on the gymnastics. I knew that was my block to write an email. That's kind of what I mean, time blocking. Limit your distractions. I don't want to lecture you, but self management doesn't mean turning on Netflix, eating bon bons, playing your fruit Tetris game in the middle of the day, right? My people don't have a problem with this. Our problem is usually the distractions or other clients popping into our brain. It's the voxer notifications, it's the DM's.

It's going to check Facebook for one thing and then casually checking the work group to see if there's jobs. And then like, oh, I should apply for this job. And oh yeah, I didn't finish this, or I should see if she responds. It's kind of like that mental trail that starts with a simple distraction. Okay. If you can prevent interruptions, whatever that is. There's lots of tips and tricks about that. Closing your door for me.

I get serious when I light the candle. The focus candle boundaries are a big one. That's why we talked about that recently here on the show. Letting your clients know when you're available, when they can expect responses, not responding to them, when it's not time for them, and then a big one with self management is prioritizing your task. Focus on completing one task fully before you get distracted by another, before you move on to another. Multitasking seems efficient, but it leads to lower quality work, which is trouble for your business. Your quality of work is so important and when you have all these open tabs, it's really hard. And so I'm sure you've heard the phrase eat the frog.

You do the most important task of the day and then fill it in with the little ones. And then we can feel good about our day too. We can take the time to celebrate what we got done. A big hurdle, rather than focus on everything we didn't get done. I think that's really important because I will tend to beat myself up like I didn't get this and this and this done, but that was so unrealistic. So I wrote an email recently that got a really good response from somebody doing really well in the work group and I wanted to tell you that. She said that balancing client work with my own business, trying to move it forward is the hardest thing. Everyone else's business seems to come before mine and I never miss a client deadline and I always put their needs ahead of my own.

She said it's not enough hours in the day. It's a creative energy drain issue. I have so many ideas, but I don't have the time or energy to execute it or take action. Well, hello. This is why clients hire us too. This is why I still do client work and hire other people to work inside my business because I don't always want to work on my own stuff. It's okay to barter with someone else to pay someone else to do the thing you're dragging your feet on. If you do not have a website up yet because you are dreading writing it, find a copywriter inside the work group and hire them to do it and get it done.

You will feel so much better than having this over your head. You can also barter if you're really good at landing page design and they're good at copy. Help each other out of or do the shitty first draft thing and just get something going because I think we get stuck in perfectionism and needs to be right. I mean, there's like templates and things that we could just have a good enough thing out there, and I just want to encourage you that because this is what we do anyway for our clients, it is okay to get help. I struggle with my own content. There's so much of it. Having someone come in and just reflect it, pull out the best stuff, because it's all swimming in my head, and I'm just, like, drained with my own content. Sometimes I feel like I'm saying the same thing over and over, which is kind of a good thing.

I can do that so easy for my clients but myself. Ah, it's the worst. So I want to give you a little bit of permission that, like, it's okay. But you also have to figure out what is a priority in your business. What do you really need to get done to get to the next level? You want to switch from hourly to project rates. You need a services guide. We'll talk about that soon on the podcast. You do need a website.

People are paying you for projects. They want to see proof. They want to see that you're taking your business serious. You will have to prioritize for yourself. And one of the best things I think you can do if you're in this messy middle where you're trying to uplevel, is time block for your business. Do you see how it all came together? If it's a Friday morning, like Serena said on the podcast, the accountant she was talking about Friday morning is her CEO day. She looks at the money. She pays the bills.

Go ahead and add the marketing tasks that you need to do, but give yourself deadline. There's a law, Parkinson's law, that says work will expand to fill the time you give it to complete it. So Parkinson's law says if you schedule time for a task, you actually limit how much time you're going to spend on it. You will get it done. So do this for your CEO stuff. Do this for your website. Do everything we talked about with the context, switching to turn that off and turn your clients off and get it done, because when you're self managed, you're self managing your own business. Most of us don't enjoy marketing ourselves.

Most of us want leads just falling into our lap. So I encourage you, if you're in this place, to join the work group, apply. I'll put the link below and get some of those leads, get some of that help, get some of those templates to market yourself out there. We have some really good trainings to help you, which brings up a point like time block the trainings you want to watch. What is a priority. How are you going to make progress? Right? Because that happens in all the courses. We sign up for a course, we don't watch the videos. Then we, you know, shit on ourselves.

Like, no, I don't want that happen. It does come down to boundaries with clients and scheduling your work. I mean, it's really hard because as freelancers, we blur the lines between work and personal life, especially when we're excited about our clients, especially when our home office is right down the hallway, or sometimes even in our bedroom, like mine was for years. But self management will help you set the boundaries, establish a routine, create the balance. Sign off from work the end of the day, have your checkout stage where you turn off your brain and go be with your family, go be with your fur babies, go do the things for yourself. This is really important for avoiding the overwork that happens when we lead into burnout, or the underwork which results in us not having money, financial instability because we have a hard time keeping ourselves on track. Then we disappoint clients and then we're not able to find new clients. Clients appreciate teammates who are reliable, proactive.

While organized, being self managed really means taking the initiative with your client work too, not sitting back on your heels and waiting for them to tell you what to do. So you have to be organized, you have to anticipate their needs. You have to communicate clearly. You have to know what's going on in your own life and when you can realistically get something done. This will build the most trust, foster the long term client relationships which are crucial, crucial, crucial for securing more work and referrals. The self managed part also comes to the business stuff. We've also talked about that here on the podcast. We have trainings in the UdMA school when it comes to tracking your income, your expenses, your taxes, your discovery calls booked, having goals.

How many people are you going to talk to a network? How many discovery calls are you going to get on the calendar? Because if you stay on your heels now, it's going to affect your work in two or three months. Down the road. What's going on in your business right now is an indicator of what happened three months ago. And so if being profitable, if making decent income, if long term financial stability is important to you, setting aside that CEO time and being self managed is important. So easy at home to be distracted by like, oh, now I need to put the laundry in. But I think most of my people don't struggle with not wanting to work. It's working too much. It's working too much for too many clients.

And that's really why I'm here today talking about this, because I know there, I've been there. I've been there. I worked as a freelance marketing assistant for years. I juggled so many clients, I charge so little. And so moving out of that, you know, I'm on call for everybody else. Employee mindset and shifting into the business owner mindset is top priority. And that's something UdMA school helps with. It gives you the services you need that are high valued, that you could offer as projects rates.

It is giving you the confidence in the client management insight so you can shorten that window of pain, of working too much. You're all going to go through it. I'm not going to lie. We're all going to get there because we're like so excited to start working. And then we quickly realize I'm in more control than I am. Udma school also gives you the client leads. You also get my eyes on your services guide, the things you need to do to get out of the hourly work. Like we're really setting you up to have a successful service provider business.

I'm a big proponent in doing marketing because it already lends itself to flexibility, it lends itself to projects, and it lends itself to higher paychecks. So if you're somebody who's new and hasn't started yet, skip being the admin VA and go into marketing assistant. If you're already an admin VA, this is your opportunity to start leveling up, honing in on the project based work, and also at the same time, building your network. Okay, I'm gonna read you a little bit of this email that I wrote. You don't need to worry about progressing slowly. You need to worry about climbing the wrong mountain. That's something atomic habits author James Clear posted on his instagram and my friend Jen Liddy, who was just recently in the workgroup, sent me 14,000 hearts. At first, I agreed with this.

It seems smart. We get stuck focusing on the wrong things, distracting ourselves with excuses and unnecessary worries. Wrong mountains. But let's go deeper. It actually goes against everything I believe and I know to be true, that it's all adding up to something beautiful, worthwhile, and powerful. That job, that bad boss, that random education, that weird client experience, that boundary issue, that regret, that life lesson, it's not the wrong mountain. It's actually a beautiful experience. While gaining wisdom that's challenging you to grow and develop character, but only if you choose to see it that way.

As an opportunity to analyze what did I learn about myself and what am I going to do next to be better, smarter, kinder, more effective. I'm in a period of reinvention, so it's hitting me hard. I believe there are no wrong turns. The random jobs, the life lessons, it's lining up perfectly and got me where I am today, stepping stones of a personal journey of self discovery and growth. Yet I find myself stuck right now. I'm not scared of failure. I'm the dominant personality who takes action. I just feel this clock ticking.

Summer break, kids out of school, work hours, limited, etcetera. And I'm scared of wasting my time and worse, my audiences. My whole schtick is helping freelancers speed up their learning process, whether they've already got clients or just looking to get started. I truly value quickness and finding shortcuts. And I don't want to learn the hard way. Give me the fastest, most efficient way and point me in the right direction right now. Let's go. But here I am and I need your help making this faster.

And then I went into my ask and the email. This awareness is what you're collecting for the rest of your life. You already have it. You already know how you work, where you work best. You can look back at your last clients, your clients right now, your last work experience, your volunteer experience. How do you work best? That's really the question you need to ask when it comes to self management. I know you have the chops and the wherewithal to find the right answers to work better, and I appreciate you listening to this podcast to get there. Freelancers are their own bosses.

This means we're responsible. This means we value autonomy. And with that comes the responsibility to self manage. We owe it to ourselves and we owe it to our clients. All right, UdMa school is opening soon. I hope you join us. Make sure you sign up for our open house. Hit me back if this podcast helped you at all and our workgroup is also enrolling soon, so get your application in.

I hope you feel encouraged to set better boundaries. Schedule your time to work and also go have fun. I'll talk to you next week.

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I want to say 222. Lucky 222, is it? Oh, my gosh. Let me look. Yeah. Episode 222. How cool. Okay, shut the door. Thank you.

Okay. Barbie just has her new hawaiian dress all tied up. Speaking of being self managed, squeezing this in right before soccer. Everyone keeps coming in. It's a priority that I fix this bracelet and dress. This Barbie.