As you are probably well aware, as self-employed people we wear many hats. While many work days do look the same, many do not! We will often be doing very different tasks on any given day, week, or hour.

As a self-employed lifer (my last salaried job ended in 1999, 2 years after I finished my bachelor’s degree…) I actually find this wearing of many hats delightful and stimulating and creatively engaging.

What is less delightful however are things like burnout, over-giving and under-receiving, and trying to do everything in your business, even the things you could hire out for and delegate for. So just to clarify: I am not advocating for doing everything, all of the time, and loving it.

Now that I’ve clarified that I’m not glorifying overwork: you do, in reality, have stuff to do right! So what to do when we are wearing the many hats? How do we find more enjoyment in that (provided we aren’t clutching all of the hats all of the time)? The answer for me has been experimentation and interval training.

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