188 - Making the Most of Limited Work Hours
Work and Play with Nancy Ray
Nancy Ray
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🗓️ 4 April 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
I currently work one day a week with the occasional help of maybe one to two evenings a month. This episode is all about how I maximize my very limited work hours!
Resources from this episode:
My Weekly Planning Checklist Download
Episode 041 - My Plan to Work One Day a Week
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| 0:00.0 | I currently work one day a week with the occasional help of maybe one to two evenings a month. |
| 0:06.9 | This episode is all about how I maximize my very limited work hours. |
| 0:17.4 | You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 188. |
| 0:21.7 | Much of our daily lives can be divided into two categories, work and play. |
| 0:26.4 | Simply put, that is where our life and our legacy take place. |
| 0:30.2 | This is a podcast all about learning to work and play well, which leads to a healthy soul and a fulfilling life. |
| 0:37.0 | Let's die run. |
| 0:44.5 | Before I had kids and I ran Nancy Rae Photography, |
| 0:47.4 | I worked probably six days a week and evenings because of photo shoots. |
| 0:53.5 | And then when Millie was born, I went to three days a week, |
| 0:56.4 | plus working on weekends where I was shooting weddings. When Lenin was born, I went down to |
| 1:02.7 | two to three days a week. And I think after Beaufort was born, that was the year. I had one more |
| 1:08.1 | year left of my photography business. Yeah, before I closed it down. |
| 1:11.4 | I closed it down when he turned one. And now my work is this podcast and selling a handful of |
| 1:18.4 | resources online like my Contentment Challenge, my legacy photo system course, my integrated life course. |
| 1:26.2 | And my work right now, the time I spend on this podcast and |
| 1:29.9 | devoting to that work, is limited to Wednesdays. And that's it. And maybe once or twice a month, |
| 1:37.2 | I'll get a Thursday evening of work in there as well. But I've set up kind of a hard and fast |
| 1:42.5 | boundary for that around my life, number one, |
| 1:44.7 | because I like the work that I do and I want to be doing it. But number two, I have such a |
| 1:50.3 | full plate with my four beautiful kids. I didn't mention Benji earlier, but I had him a year |
| 1:56.3 | and a half ago. He was the first baby that I really understood what work was like without having to be a |
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