time management for wordpress freelancers with no time

Given all the in WordPress space, filling your time is not the biggest challenge it's what to do once you've run out of hours in the week.   The important thing is not to forget about money and follow your passion., except to strike realistic balance between the demands of needing to earn revenue and focussing on building for the future...   Automating tasks is business, and the gains are equally obvious look for ways of automating and then pocket the time.   Ben is one of the most theme developers on WordPress com and maintains library of 20+ themes, so appreciates the advantages of avoiding repetitive tasks.   Ben's approach is spot on here initially, it may take longer to set up systems to automate tasks, and time savings in the long run more than make this back.   but your clients, boss and peers will find this utterly unacceptable..   Pareto principle is unhelpful when taken, the concept is useful how can you achieve 90%, 95% or 100% of the in slightly time.   It's notable that nobody in the Advanced WordPress poll cited, limiting time on email or media use and, in my opinion, time blocking is one of the best methods of improving your Time blocking is scheduling-in time for working on specific project and then spending that scheduled time on that project.   If on Wednesday, between 2 and 4, I've blocked off time to go through and rework some old blog posts, that is what I am going to do it does not matter if I know there is billable work waiting for me between 4 and 6.   My approach on this is very similar to Toby's, with time blocking way to force the deep work that ensures I get work done.   Read more