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The Freelancer and Time Management

Time Management is considered to be the essence of a freelance profession. Being a freelancer not only requires to play the role of a employee, but also that of an employer. therefore, it is important that you ensure that your star employee works to their full potential. Here are aspects that you should keep in mind to manage your time to its fullest.

Time Management Tip - Stop Multitasking: Multitasking is a very good ability that we have, but only in some situations. sometimes, having the ability to multi task comes across as your bane while getting some work done. How distracting can be that email you are checking while you are trying to decipher a code?, or how difficult is getting a fresh idea for a business plan when you are avidly watching that video?

Time Management Tip - Stop Social Networking: Social networking is the backbone of several businesses today. In fact, it is quite important for the freelancer, as the freelancer will not simply disappear if they are not in contact with their peers and colleagues. however, there is a time and place to social network and a time and place to work, make sure that you do not mix the two, or you will end up having the worst of both worlds.

Time Management Tip - Take Some Time Off: Come to think of it, why are you getting distracted? Simply because you either you are not interested in the job that you are doing, or that you have spent too much time doing the work that you are doing. Working from home does not mean that you will slave over the PC for days on end. Everyone requires a break, and so do you. Once you take the break, you will find out that you are actually working better than you were previously.

Time Management Tip - Decide your work timing: Working from home does not mean that you are working fulltime. Working from home just means that you are not going to the office any longer Therefore, consider that your home is your office and lay out a timeframe to getting your work done. With this, you have a timeset for yourself, and you might begin to actually get more work done in that time.

The Freelancers Free Time: What to do with it.

A freelancer will have several things in abundance if he or she is systematic and consistent in delivering their assignments to their clients. One of these things is time. In fact, after some time, you will be worried and wondering as to what to do with the empty afternoons and the quick to come evenings. Here are some tips on how a Freelancer can send their free time:

Blog: Freelancing is all about networking. Blogging is considered to be, and actually is one of the best ways to network in the world of Web 2.0. You do not have to be completely professional like when you are blogging, and the blog can be about anything. Your paintings, your poems, your pet projects, your family photographs anything that your little heart desires.

Hobbies: We all had hobbies when we were young, such hobbies that had the potential to become our professions. Sadly, due to some reason or the other, we could never continue our hobbies into our adult life, leave alone making it a profession. The freetime that freelancing affords you is the best resource you can use for the enhancement and growth of your hobby. All you have to do is to d what you liked the best!

Family Time: What profession does not have the employee ignore the family? Well, if you are freelancing or working from home, you are more often than not at home, and thats the best time of your life. You can use the free time that freelancing offers you to spend time with your family and reconnect withb them, bringing back to life your own family life.

Health: Nine out of ten people in the world are unhealthy. The medical condition may be anything, but the truth stands for that most people are unhealthy, simply because they do not have the time to look after their health, or carry out the steps that are suggested by the doctor. With freelancing, you have the time - all you need is the will to look after your health.

What is oDesk?

There are several sites that act as a intermediate between freelancers and people who are looking to outsource their work to others. oDesk is one such site. Though Odesk is quite similar to Scriptlance or GetaFreelancer, it has a significant difference.

While SL and GAF restrict themselves to acting as a intermediary between the freelancer and the employer till the time the project is done, oDesk goes a step ahead and actually tries to create a virtual workspace.

Once you make an account on oDesk, you will be able to access the number of projects that are available. You can then apply for these candidacies and then you will be interviewed by the employer. The interview can be carried out via oDesk as well as Skype, Gtalk or other internet messengers.

Another significant aspect of oDesk is that it actually allows the project owner to monitor the work timings of the freelancer, with the help of software and a webcam, if the employee agrees to the same.

Click here to visit Odesk.

Resources Required for Working from Home

Working from home, or freelancing is quite a lucrative profile. However, you should remember that very few freelancers actually last in this line, and most of them start looking for a stable job within the year's end. This happens due to many reasons, one of them being that a person does not know what he requires to keep his freelancing business sfloat. This article speaks about the hardware requirements that a person needs:

Office Space at home: This is one of the most important requirements to ensure that your Work from Home or Freelancing stint is a successful one. If possible, you should dedicate an entire room of the house as your workspace. Make sure that this workspace is undisturbed and does not disturb anybody else in the house.

A Good Computer: You would also require a good computer to keep your freelancing business on tops. With the advent of the Internet, most of the freelancing jobs are Internet related. They may be about the graphics, or about the content, or even about web programming and programming. Therefore, if you have any of these skills and wish to freelance, you already have a great market. Even if you are not from these lines of profession, a computer is a good idea to keep records, or even to make documents and such.

A Good Internet Connection: The Internet has slowly become one of the most important ways of our communication. The Internet is today used for corporate, business as well as personal interaction. With the advent of e-commerce, the Internet is slowly becoming a huge market for jobs. If you are a programmer, writer or a graphics designer, you would get most of your freelance gigs over the Internet and on sites from the Internet. Therefore, it is necessary for you to have a Internet connection.

Three Golden Tips for Freelancing

With the advent of the Internet and increase in communication, freelancing has become one of the most lucrative professions today. There are so many people who have given up their jobs and are working from the comfy confines of their home. But it is not an easy. Here are the Three Golden Tips that you should keep in mind while freelancing.

1) Manage Your Time: The best part of freelancing is that you can work whenever you wish, the worst part of freelancing is that you can work whenever you want. You should be very careful if you are working form home, simply because you might end up sitting at home and playing games while you are actually meant to work. Remember, if you are freelancing, you have no supervisor or peer to egg you on, and you will know the wasted time only at the end of the month - when you cannot pay the bills because you didn't work at all!

2) Know Your Limits: The problem with freelancing is that a person tends to think that they can do anything and everything. If you are in a company, your skillsets are already decided upon and your work responsibilities are given to you within the first week. When you are freelancing, the biggest problem is that you are the only person who decides whether you can do a particular job, and by the time you find out that you cannot do it, it's too late. Therefore, make it a point to understand your abilities and make the best out of them. Of course, this does not mean that you should not experiment. But any experiment that does not sit good in the realms of practicality and logic may not end as well as you would want them to.

3) Have Fun: The basic reason that you stopped a day job is because your life was getting wrecked. Freelancing is good money, but if you continue to be as workaholic as you were during the job, you are not exactly getting all the benefits of being a freelancer. So, whenever you can, take some time off... go with the folks for a picnic in the middle of the week, catch a chick flick or a romcom or a action adventure in the middle of the day - Understand Your Freedom.