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The most important way to start your day as a freelancer is to wake up after eight hours of sleep. It doesn't matter if it's really early in the morning or if it's a little later if your habits are to work late at night. But getting eight hours of sleep is critical in having a productive day, in completing the tasks that you have scheduled for yourself for that day.
The second thing I recommend doing is getting dressed in the morning. It's really easy to sit in bed and work on your Laptop and just pops around in your apartment doing whatever you have to do but getting dressed and starting the day in the way the rest of the world does is a very productive way to run your life.
I also recommend if you work from home and if you are planning on doing your work inside of your home, leaving your house in the morning and then returning, if that means getting coffee, getting a bite to eat from your grocery store, that way you are entering the world and then you are reentering your office and your home.
I personally like to work in coffee shops. So I have just built out wi-fi areas near me and I go and I drink my coffee and I network with people in the area and it's opened up a lot of opportunities for me and allowed me to get work done with a moderately distracting environment which I excel in.
No matter where you work you want the environment work in to be a clean one. So if there is clutter around you, those are tonnes of distraction that may getting your to do list accomplish.
And speaking of To-Do list it's important to create one that you can actually succeed with. So put things on that list that you can accomplish on that day and then when the day is finished create a Ta-Da list where you can share with yourself and whoever elese cares what you have accomplished for that day.
Part of being a freelancer is creating structure in your life, you need to have schedule, you need to give yourself breaks and you need to reward yourself. What I like to do is I like to work in 10-30 minute intervals and I tend to get up and reward myself with something from the refrigerator or conversation with somebody in a coffee shop. Those little distractions might seem like a waste of time but they really help in helping me to meet my deadlines.
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