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\u200aHere is a proven way to get more done in the next month than you did in the previous six months.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You’ve gotta understand this thing called context switching.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s what it looks like.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So imagine this is your calendar, and imagine you have five different projects that you’re working on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The first one is your website.<\/span><\/p>\n

You’ve gotta get a new website built.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The next one is you have a new marketing campaign to work on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Next you have some office space that you need to get renovated, you need to hire some more people, and then you have a bunch of admin financial related things you gotta get done.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So each of these is a block of time and it takes five blocks of time to complete one of these things.<\/span><\/p>\n

So what happens is you jump from thing to thing to thing each day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And so at the end of week one, you have nothing done.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Week two you go, okay, I’m gonna work on admin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Then I really gotta get someone hired, and then I’m gonna work on the office and now back to the website thing. And then I gotta get marketing things done.<\/span><\/p>\n

And so you constantly go through this entire thing and you end up accomplishing nothing at the end of the month because you’re jumping from thing to thing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And here’s the thing about context switching.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When you jump from task to task, project to project, you lose 20% of your time, 20% of your productivity.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reason you lose that is because residue is left over in your head, right?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You’re still thinking a little bit about the website that you need to work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Or the marketing plan that you need to work on, it takes you a minute to get back into the state, into the flow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So instead, here’s what you need to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

You need to block out the time to work on one thing and focus on that one thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

So make it website, website, website, website, website.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now at the end of one week you’ve completed all five blocks of time that are needed to launch the website.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So you’ve launched the website.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then week two, you’re gonna focus on, maybe it’s hiring, right?<\/span><\/p>\n

So each block gets filled with hiring, and then at the end of two weeks, you know, you’ve now done a website and you’ve hired somebody.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And you see for most of us though, we get stuck in this thing where we’re jumping from project to project and we end up getting nothing done.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

PS – Can you relate to any of these:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2705\u00a0 Struggling from project to project\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2705\u00a0 A slow trickle of inquiries about your services<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2705\u00a0 Your clients only seem concerned about the lowest price<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2705\u00a0 Not sure when or where your next project will come\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2705\u00a0 Fighting for clients on freelancer marketplaces like Upwork and 99 Designs<\/span><\/p>\n

If any of those describe you learn more about the Freelance Accelerator:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/uglymugmarketing.com\/freelance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

You’ll learn how to:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2714\ufe0f Have a WAITLIST of high paying, committed clients (rather than starting from scratch each month)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2714\ufe0f STOP fighting for mediocre projects on freelancer marketplaces (like UpWork and 99 Designs) and start becoming the GO TO CHOICE and virtually eliminate all of your competition<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2714\ufe0f Have clients love your work and trust your guidance\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2714\ufe0f Position yourself to start winning large (5-figure), high-profit projects<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2714\ufe0f Transition from project-to-project, to having clients on retainers paying you month after month\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2714\ufe0f Have a steady stream of leads pouring in wanting to do business with you\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2714\ufe0f Get paid 2x as much for the work you’re already doing\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2714\ufe0f Have clients thank you for the privilege of working with you<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2714\ufe0f Have a strategic roadmap for scaling your business<\/span><\/p>\n