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The email mountain on Monday morning
Sunday evening. The laptop is open on the kitchen table and you should actually be sitting on the sofa already. But quotes still need to go out, three clients are waiting for last week's report and your inbox is full of requests that you have to answer all just slightly differently. It is not difficult work. It is work that returns every week, and that steals exactly the hours you wanted to give to your clients.
This is what it looks like for many freelancers I meet. They are good at their profession, and in the evening they are stuck with the manual work around it.
What time back means in practice
Time back does not mean that you automate your entire business in one day. It means that a task you do in the same way every week, one day no longer lies with you. You describe once how it should be done, you watch along the first few times, and after that it happens without you sitting next to it.
What you do with that time then, you decide. A client who needs some extra attention. A conversation you would have cut short otherwise. Or simply an evening that is yours. For me that is the real return: the work for which clients come to you gets space again.
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