How To Take Charge Of Your OWN Time...
Katie Berger Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 9:30AM 
As wedding and event planners (or any entrepreneur for that matter), we are always on the go. We have very little time for ourselves away from our business. And now with the beloved (or not) iPhone, we get away even less...always checking email, texting clients, answering every call that comes in, checking email again and again. Clients have gotten used to instant access to us also, which makes it even more difficult to carve out time for ourselves. They expect that we see their emails, texts and voicemails immediately and should then respond instantly. Here are a few things to get you you thinking about taking charge of your OWN time.
1. Do you get inspiration from outside of the wedding industry? For me, I play tennis, read, snow ski, build forts with my kids and have a standing Barbie dress up date with my oldest and block building (well building and demolishing) with my middle love.
2. Do you converse with friends and family and NOT mention work?
3. Did you know that you can temporarily turn off email on your iPhone? Do it, even for an hour. I try and turn mine off in the evenings and for some time over each weekend. If I don't see the emails, then I don't feel the need to immediately return them.
4. Do you set limits on client request that can take up precious time? I have a lovely client whose wedding is coming up very soon and she literally wants to chat at least once a week. We also email at last 10 times per week in addition to our chat. So, when she wanted to schedule yet another phone conversation for this week, when I was taking the whole day away from work to just be with family, I had to politely say no. It felt liberating to say no. It wasn't rude or mean or nasty, but just a firm no. Ahhh...
What do you do to take charge of your own time?
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