{"id":2264,"date":"2017-08-28T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.risingtidesociety.com\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2022-08-15T03:27:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T10:27:47","slug":"workflow-tools-creative-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbb.dev.reliablepenguin.com\/blog\/workflow-tools-creative-entrepreneurs","title":{"rendered":"Your Workflow is Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Your business will take over your life if you let it. <\/strong>You weren\u2019t expecting that from me, were you? I know that is a heavy statement to kick off today’s post, but I have to be honest with y\u2019all from the start. There have been numerous times in my life when my business has taken an unhealthy hold on my schedule. I was working from sun up to sun down in the pursuit of building a business that was supposed to give me my life back. Twelve hour days were average. Fourteen hour days weren\u2019t unheard of.<\/p>\n

I had started to believe the lie that things would calm down if I simply had a few more hours in the day. That somehow getting \u201ccaught up\u201d would allow me to turn an unsustainable workflow into the lifestyle that I so desperately needed.<\/p>\n

You see, the issue wasn\u2019t the amount of work that I had, but rather the way in which I was managing my time. I was spending far too many hours on the mechanical aspects of my business, only to feel burnt out when it came to the creative processes that inspired me to become an entrepreneur in the first place.<\/p>\n

We don’t need more hours in the day. We need to be more efficient with our work hours. If we develop faster systems that reduce the burden of business ownership, we can concentrate on the creative work that inspires us and pour our hearts into the people we love the most.<\/p>\n

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Three Tools That Gave Me My Life Back<\/h1>\n

One of the biggest ways that I have started to take back my time is through implementing more efficient and automated systems in my workflow. I’m excited to cover three of those systems today with the hope that you can learn a bit more about how I’m learning to be more efficient with my work (so that I can be inefficient in my time with loved ones!).<\/p>\n

HoneyBook<\/a><\/b><\/h3>\n

For the first six years of my business, booking clients involved a long and tedious process of editing contracts in word documents, emailing PDFs, waiting for the mail to arrive with a signed agreement, and making the trek to the bank each week just to deposit checks. I haven\u2019t even mentioned scanning signed documents, filing them in a binder, and keeping track of incremental payments and questionnaire due-dates by hand. <\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll stop before I bore you to death, but ultimately you get the idea. <\/span><\/p>\n

My workflow system was broken. <\/span><\/p>\n

I had known for quite a while that I needed to make the switch to a completely digital system, but to be completely honest – I felt as though I didn\u2019t have time to uproot my entire way of doing things. <\/span><\/p>\n

I was set in my ways and scared that changing everything would be too difficult in the middle of the busy season.<\/span><\/p>\n

Enter: HoneyBook.<\/a> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I met the team while visiting our San Francisco TuesdaysTogether launch and fell in love with the entire company. The product is incredible, but it was truly the people behind the client management software for small businesses<\/a> that convinced me to make the switch. I\u2019m a big believer in brands who prioritize people above profit and from day one they have earned my trust.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What makes it different from other software I\u2019ve researched?<\/b><\/p>\n