🧰 Last Chance: Get CreatorHQ for 20% off
+ Free workshop on structuring your time — join us today at 12pm ET!
Hi Friends,
Research from Cassie Holmes, author of Happier Hour, shows that having too little free time (less than approximately two hours a day) is associated with less happiness because of stress.
Yet, having too much discretionary time (more than approximately five hours a day) is also associated with less happiness, because it fosters a sense of lacking purpose.
Sometimes, due to a layoff or losing a “big gorilla” client, you end up with free time you didn’t ask for.1 Now what do you do with it?
In a few short hours, at 12 p.m. ET, I’ll be delivering the second of two open-enrollment workshops for Georgetown University’s summer Pivot with Purpose series. They created this robust program in record speed for the many international development professionals affected by mass layoffs earlier this year, estimated at nearly 20,000 in the U.S. and over 200,000 globally.
💻 I would love for you to join us!
Register for “From Vision to Action: Staying Focused and Energized During Your Pivot” (June 26 at 12pm ET) — based on Free Time, currently $0.99 on Kindle!
🎧 And check out these related Free Time podcast conversations:
On the other side of the equation, sometimes we experience a feeling of time poverty—the feeling of too much to do, and not enough time to do it.
🥵 Business stress is a systems problem, and it can be solved more easily and quickly than you think.
When your mind is cluttered, it’s impossible to keep up with the endless pings and inboxes, and even worse, important information about your business and clients starts falling through the cracks.
If you are drowning in the riptide of reactive work, barely treading water even on your best days, you and your team may be trapped by what I call The Burdensome B’s: getting bored, bottlenecked, burned out, and/or buried by bureaucracy.
Even if the phrase operational efficiency makes you cringe, once you have the right business back-end, so much will click into place, and everyone you interact with will start thanking you.
This isn’t about creating more work; the mark of a good system is that it’s harder not to use it.
If any of the above describes you, I have good news! As I mentioned last time, my friend and I have already done 90% of the systems set-up for you :D We are bringing you the best deal yet on our two business operations dashboards, expiring in four short days!
👉 If you purchase CreatorHQ by the end June (Monday) with promo code FREE TIME, you’ll get 20% off, bringing the total to $238.
I’m also including access to the Free Time Operations Dashboard at no additional cost (normally it starts at $997), plus a live office hours Zoom with me in August to talk through any questions or sticking points.
CreatorHQ has everything you need (and much, much more!) to get your business operations out of your brain—freeing up hours of time every week, and tens of thousands of dollars in team costs every year. Just a few of the many benefits:
⚙️ Ready to get your business systems squared away once and for all this summer?
You’re getting two done-for-you Notion dashboards for just $238 (a $1,500 value), so that you can mix and match the templates that serve your business best.
Don’t forget to enter promo code FREETIME at checkout:
🧾 After you purchase, forward your receipt to hi@itsfreetime.com and we’ll get you squared away with the Free Time Operations Dashboard and a calendar invite for the August Office Hours :)
🎧 Related Episodes
🎧 Check out Jay’s show, Creator Science, wherever you subscribe to podcasts:
🎉 I can’t wait to hear how you free even more time this summer, and what you do with it!
📝 I wrote a little pep talk for this group yesterday on , in case you know someone who might need to hear it:
🦧 And on losing your biggest client, here’s some wise words from fellow Free Timers on how they’ve handled situations like these:
