How I balance my day job and freelance life

Finding balance in my day job and freelance life was difficult at first. I learned one of the best ways was to figure out how to automate systems. Then believing in the process. There are days when some content does good. Then there are days when it’s crickets with my content creation and client work.
One of the most important things I do is maintain a healthy mental state. Because of the many things in our lives that can impact us either negatively or positively. So now let’s get into how I balance my day Job and freelance life.

The first way I start off by balancing working a full time job and being a freelance graphic designer is by figuring out the way, I can start by making it into a system. The system that will allow me to create on a consistent basis and not be burnt out. The creation of content can be another thing that most will just say F it and I’m not with it. Looking for the Joy in all of it is what I tend to focus on. Before I did not grasp this concept fully. But back to what I am saying about how I am able to balance it all.

Then the creation of new work, content is a good marketing and lets people see who you are. The way to let people fully grasp whom I am as a person/designer lets them into my world. Then using the skills from my day job into my freelance work. I always like to look towards the way of how I am progressing with the skills I have learned.

Now I set out a day that I am off where I am able to set up everything for the coming days. Having daily plans laid out helps a lot. Because I have learned having something to strive for helps with the balance instead of flying blind.

Keeping your mental state healthy working a day job and striving towards being a full-time freelancer/content creator can be hard. Because it can feel like you are running in place. But meditating, writing in a Journal helps a lot. These are things that work for me and reading books that inspire you and help move you further along helps out a lot. Daily reading, Journal writing and meditating, scheduling and planning make the whole balance of balancing a day Job to help me get further towards my Goal of being able to work Full time Freelance/ Content creator.