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Today, once I have done a school walk and completed some project tasks blocked in for today, I am going to do some planning. I am going to block out art business tasks I would like to get done this week in the same way I would the publishing tasks.
And then, for the rest of the week (assuming no additional publishing work comes in) I will work predominantly on art business admin. Next week, I have two publishing jobs starting, and continuing for the next few weeks. They should only add up, between them, to about half my capacity, so I will also plan for art business work to do alongside them.
There may be spreadsheets. I do like a spreadsheet to keep me on track and to assess how things are going.
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