You didn’t create your business to feel overwhelmed.

I want to help you move away from that place of overwhelm and into the joy behind why you created your business.

When I felt overwhelmed within my own business, the way that I primarily removed overwhelm was through batch days.

Batch days is when you group like tasks together and link them to a certain time. I find that batch days help with productivity because my mind doesn’t need to shift between the different mindsets for each tasks as they are alike. They are also great for helping with boundaries within my business!

1. Work out your ideal work schedule

The first thing that you need to do to create batch days is to work out your ideal schedule.

The reason for this is that you don’t want to create a batch day schedule for 5 days a week if you are only wanting to work 3 days a week.

You created a business for the freedom to do what you love. The key word there: freedom. This work schedule is yours, it will look completely different to mine, and that’s ok!

So now it’s your turn to think: in an ideal world, how many hours would you like to work? What days would you like to work?

2. Brain Dump and Categorise

Put a timer on for 5 minutes and brain dump every task that you currently do in your business.

Then, categorise these tasks into categories. There are four main categories that I recommend (feel free to change these to suit your business):

• Admin (checking inbox, invoicing etc.)

• Content & Marketing (eg. any free offerings that come from your business)

• Dreams (anything you haven’t yet done, but you want to)

• Offerings (client work, selling your digital products etc.)

3. Allocate Categories to Days

Now what you’re going to do is allocate your different categories to different days based on the schedule you chose in step one.

An example from my business is that I only work 3 days, yet I have 4 categories. The way I do this is on Tuesdays I do client work the whole day, on Thursdays I split the day in half and do the dream category in the morning and Content & Marketing in the afternoon, and the final day I split in half again to do half client work and half admin tasks.

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