small-business-freedomWhen working as a manager in the corporate world I was often asked by my staff, “what do you do all day?”

They saw me coming in to the office early. They saw me leave the office late. I was often not at my desk.

So I can understand the question.

Now I have left the corporate world and I run my own small business I now get asked the same question by friends.

So I thought what I would do is simply make a note of what I do whie running my small business.

This is what I did last Monday:

6 AM Got up.

6:30 AM Gym. A one-hour workout, lifting weights.

8 AM Breakfast with my wife.

8:30 AM Liaised with my outsourcer and looked at and replied to all e-mails.

9 AM Commented on other blog posts.

9:15 AM Worked on a new small business site for a new client.

10 AM Coffee break and I also had some fruit.

10:15 AM Continued to work on new site client.

11:45 AM Business finances. I like to spend 15 minutes each day keeping my business finances up-to-date.

Midday. 15 minutes replying to Tweets.

12:15 PM 15 minutes on Facebook.

12:30 PM Lunch with my wife.

1:15 PM More client work

2:15 PM Liaised with my outsourcer to create a new banner for my blog.

2:30 PM Created a new blog post.

3 PM Personal one-on-one client call.

4 PM Quick break and some fruit.

4:15 PM Created two new blog posts. That’s my blog posts written for the week!

5 PM Published one of the new blog posts on my site.

5:15 PM Commented on other blog posts.

5:30 PM Had business chat with my business partner Joel.

5.45 PM Touched base with my outsourcer.

6 PM Looked at and replied to all e-mails.

6:30 PM Got ready to go out.

7 PM Dinner with friends.

That was a long day and as you can see I am doing a fair amount of client work. The amount of client work I do each day does obviously depend upon the amount of client work I have on my books.

This is what I did last Tuesday:

6 AM Got up

6:30 AM Gym. Today was running!

8 AM Breakfast with my wife

8:30 AM Liaised with my outsourcer and looked at and replied to all e-mails

9 AM Renewed some domains that I own

9:15 AM Joined Daniel Scocco’s Facebook club. The club helps its members get more exposure and traffic from Facebook. More details can be found here:

Want More Traffic from Facebook?

9:30 AM 15 minutes replying to Tweets.

9:45 AM 15 minutes on Facebook

10 AM Coffee break and I also had some fruit.

10:15 AM Client work

11:15 AM Business finances.

11:30 Wrote a guest post, which is now published:

Why Should Small Business Owners Blog?

12:30 PM Lunch with my wife

1:15 PM Re-vamped my Blogging Services pages. What do you think, do you like it:

Business Blogging Services

2:15 PM Touched base with my outsourcer.

2:30 PM Took my daughter to the airport as she was going to Spain for a modelling assignment.

6 PM. Dinner with my wife.

6:30 PM Looked at and replied to all e-mails.

7 PM Commented on other blog posts.

7:15 PM TV and bed!

A more relaxed day for me.

Running my blogging business from home enables me to have the freedom to do things when I want to.

Some working days are long…some are short. Some days I work all day, others I do my own thing.

To a certain degree I can choose when I want to work and that’s a luxury of running your own small business.

Are you surprized at what I do?

What do you do?

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