Play to your strengths
Prioritise your time
Know your peaks and troughs
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Maintaining a work / life balance is easy when you ’ re a sole trader , right ? You typically work from home and you have no one else to answer to , so it should be easy to switch off . Unfortunately , that ’ s not always the case . In fact , many homebased sole traders struggle to strike a healthy work / life balance because the lines are more blurred . Ella Legg , founder of copywriting consultancy Ella Smith Communications , knows how difficult it can be to strike that balance , having experienced it firsthand . Here are her top 20 tips for achieving and maintaining a healthy work / life balance .
Play to your strengths
Don ’ t try and be all things to all people . Focus on your strengths and outsource the others . If you ’ re not a whiz at accounts or graphic design , outsource them instead of wasting time .
Prioritise your time
You may have a to-do list with 50 tasks on it , so you need to prioritize those tasks into four categories .
They are :
Work Lif
• Urgent and important
• Important but not urgent
• Urgent but not important
• Neither urgent nor important .
Know your peaks and troughs
Are you a morning person ?
If you are , assign tough , high-concentration tasks to the mornings . Don ’ t leave the tough tasks until its night time and vice versa .