Why I’m Unscheduling My Work Week

Photo by Jacqueline Dooley

I’ve been self-employed for seventeen years. Each day, like clockwork, I wake up and go through some version of the same schedule with very little variation.

I start work around 8 a.m. and sit at my desk for 6 to 8 hours. There’s no clock for me to punch into or boss to report to, yet I get anxious if I’m not at my desk at roughly the same time every morning.