3 PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS FOR FREELANCERS TO BOOST YOUR WORKFLOW

Type A gals, where you at? This one’s for you…

If you love list making, if colour coding makes you heart race faster & if marie kondo is your girl crush… you are a loser. JK! if the above is true for you, you are most likely my soul sister.

But productivity isn’t just for the borderline OCD types & #humblebrags on Instagram *ahem…guilty*. Boosting your productivity can actually be the, somewhat unsexy, yet totally underestimated hero, that moves you towards your goals. 

“Boosting your productivity can actually be the, somewhat unsexy, yet totally underestimated hero, that moves you towards your goals. ”

If you can get more done faster, well, not only are you going to hit your goals sooner, but you’re also going to free up the mental space to cultivate more weird & wonderful ideas that will drive your business forward. 

So how you can give your productivity flow a kick up the backside? Try introducing these time saving apps into your life..

1.    Wunderlist

Wunderlist is a game changer, like seriously. Does flipping from notebook to crumpled post-it, to - at your lowest moments, the back of an old receipt from the bin, searching for that precious note you jotted down earlier, sound at all familiar?

As if it’s not overwhelming enough running your own business, without the constant scramble of ideas your trying to hold onto. So, what to do? Take a dump girl … the brain kind I mean of course (lol). Get it down, then get it out of your head. Create the space to think clearly again!

Wunderlist is great because you can segment all of your goals into sub-lists, and set due dates on everything, so the app will automatically compile your ‘must do today’ list every day!  I have an ongoing list for ideas that pop into my head. That way, when inspiration strikes I can safely store that idea away for later and carry on with my workflow uninterrupted. 

2.    DocuSign

It’s 2019, who’s seriously still accepting paper copies? Personally, it took me far too long to digitise this side of my business – but there was no looking back once I did. Forget trying to keep track of endless sheets of paper, let alone a freelancers biggest dilemma; where to find a printer?! Docu sign makes it easy for you to send your contracts over to clients, for signing digitally. It makes it easy for you & easy for the client, plus you’ll always have your copies backed up and saved. Enough said!

3.    Calendly 

If a big part of your service is being a physical provider like me, you may find yourself chained to your phone, scheduling and re-scheduling appointments like you don’t have a business to run or something? It’s the nature of the game when you work with people – plans change and so will your schedule. But the amount of admin that comes with slotting appointments in and out, is not time well spent. This is a low value task that takes you away from working on building or improving your business! Calendly took the pressure off for me. You can plot out your availability for different length appointments in advance. Then whenever someone wants to reschedule, they can plot a new appointment into your calendar without any need to go through you. The only downside with this if that you need to make sure you plot out the slots you want to offer in advance – but in my experience this bit of admin time more than makes up for itself over the course of a week!