One of the most difficult things about being self-employed is taking a vacation. It requires much effort to strike a healthy work-life balance. Many of my clients rely on my fast turn-around time for making changes to their websites, and are frequently adding time-sensitive special offers and the like.
Every year, I manage to take a few long weekends and sometimes an entire week... below are some of my practices for handling such an event:
I've had some requests for me to put together some sort of a "guide" to show how I organize all of my "work stuff" on the computer - client files and folders, notes, leads, invoices, to-do's, bills, etc... this is one writing assignment that I put off for a while. Luckily, clients are keeping us busy. The other issue is the non-disclosure agreements I've signed, so I'm not able to include screenshots or provide helpful examples of my actual data. Moving on...