119: Jemella Ukaegbu – Why You Should Utilize Print & How to Master Your Craft

So now like I will do things like if I’m in the studio one day, I won’t be in the studio the following day. Cause that also you don’t think about the preparation that comes before having to go out to work. And that’s supposed to benefit of working for yourself. Whereas obviously, there’s someone who has to go to do a nine to five and they have to get up and go to the office every single day, you know? So I’m lucky to be in a position that I am with one of my own business where

I can say, okay, I’m going to go in on Tuesday, but I’m not going to go in on Wednesday. And yeah, that’s helped me quite a bit. Because like me going to work, we have to leave at like seven o’clock in the morning, which means the preparation from the day before, the bags packing, clothes being put out, you know, having the, you know, bathing them from the night before, so that’s in the morning, it’s just like a quick wipe down, change, let’s go kind of thing. Having my daughter’s sandwiches already done, oh.

Sometimes waking up first thing in the morning, let me do the sandwich, so she can have something while we’re in the car in that morning traffic, you know? All of those kind of little things. I feel like I could probably, I’ve only just found my way come January, even though I’ve gone into a big deep dive of anxiety of like, oh, I’ve got this to do and this to do and this to do. I’ve kind of like come the new year, I like broke my life down in quarters, if I want to say that. I made a whole spreadsheet on Google Sheets and literally divide like, hey, what are the stuff that I need to do? I’m tired of giving myself goals. I need to break down how I’m gonna get to that end goal. So yes, I’m a bit behind by a couple of weeks, but I know I can now go back because I’ve got too much to like break everything down.

So I literally just like broke it down like January, February, March, April, May, June. And then I thought, okay, what are my goals? What goals do I want to reach? And it wouldn’t even, it’s not even necessarily each month. It’s what goals do I want to hit or what’s the most important ones? Because you’ve got stuff throughout the whole year that you can do, right? So I prioritized like all the stuff at the beginning. And then I say, okay, I want to update my new website.

Instead of now spending six hours trying to do everything to update my website, I’m going to be like one week I’m going to give myself organized images. That’s that done. The following week I’m going to do something else regarding the website, whether it is uploading, then I want me to do the metadata for the images so I can come up in the SEO on my Google. So it’s not me trying to do all of it in one day, as well as trying to manage the kids, manage home life, cooking, cleaning, all of that.

You know, trying to be social – I’m trying to get out of more of my friends, you know. So yeah, that’s what I’ve kind of like done. So it doesn’t, I don’t feel like it’s so like squashed in and like, oh my God, I’m at the end of the month and I need to get all of this done by the end of this month. So even like, yes, there are goals that I’ve missed and I’m saying to myself, you know what, I’m not gonna be hard on myself. I was like, you’re supposed to finish that then and you haven’t finished it. Okay, cool. Review it. Change the date.