PSA: My uncle shut down my whole 'too busy' excuse with one sentence at a family cookout.

We were at his place in Akron last summer, and I was complaining about never having time to fix up my own house. I said something like 'I'm just slammed, you know how it is.' He put his burger down, looked right at me, and said 'You schedule everyone else's roof. Why don't you schedule your own stuff?' It hit me hard. I was booking jobs out for months for customers but treating my own projects like they could just happen magically in spare minutes. The next day, I blocked off every Saturday morning for the next month in my work calendar, just like a paying job. I've already repainted my front porch and rebuilt a set of steps. Has anyone else tried literally putting their own life on the work calendar to make it happen?

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charlie38420d ago

Wait, you booked out jobs for months for other people but your own porch was just waiting for spare minutes? How does that even happen?

wells.reese20d ago

That "waiting for spare minutes" thing is exactly how it happens. You treat your own stuff like a hobby that can fill in the cracks, but a client's job is a real event that needs a slot. It's too easy to see your own time as this endless free resource that never actually shows up.