Morton Got It Right

"When it rains, it pours," is the power slogan for Morton Salt...ain't it the truth? The life of a freelancer seems to be feast or famine. There is never that steady flow of just enough work to keep one busy...but no burdened. Instead it's like, "Oh my God...not another job! How am I going to get all this done? Why couldn't they have called last week when I spent two days watching my toenails grow (which is really pretty cool if you have the chance to do it).

It's one of the reasons I don't get to the blog as often as I should...how's that for an excuse?

But life has it's own plan and it's own pace. The fun is watching to see how you're going to juggle everything to meet deadlines, maintain quality, and still have time for things like food, sleep, and marketing/sales to make sure you don't have too much toenail time.

I'm a firm believer in time management...but a freelancer's time belongs to others...and their emergencies become our emergencies. We're lucky to have them and lucky to be able to help them.

I'd like to know what I'm doing tomorrow (or not doing...tomorrow is Saturday and I'd like to know that I have the entire day to do things like wash my car, or run in the sunshine, or sit with a beer and watch the hummingbirds), but someone may need me at the last minute and I'll be there for them.

Feast or famine. Yep, Morton had it right.