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What I do when I have no client work
No, I don’t panic. But I don’t chill either!
Hellooooooo!
How have you been?
How the hell are we halfway through June already?

This year has already seen so much, it feels like so much time has passed, yet it also feels like how are we halfway through the year already?
Anyway…
I was reflecting on my months, new work, time management, and stuff, and I realised…
The beginning of my months are chill. My clients give me work after 8th or 10th. That’s when they get approval from their client.
There are fixed number blogs/work I get and deliver every month so naturally I don’t need to panic searching for work in the first 10 days.
But then the next 20 days become a mess, when I have to write 10–12 blogs. Both clients give work around that time.

For the first 10 days of every month, I am jobless. I am lazy these days, mostly, but I don’t chill.
I try to keep the momentum going so that when a lot of work comes all at once, I don’t feel lethargic or miss deadlines or compromise quality.
Here’s what I do in the first 10 days to keep the momentum:
I tend to do this almost every day, but the first 10 days are when I have lots of time to give more depth to my ideas.
I can write better, more nuanced posts when I can dedicate more time to them.
Consume content
When you have time, you can either doomscroll or watch something useful.
Useful can be anything that makes you feel something—excited, curious, inspired.
Currently, I’m watching Attack on Titan and The Roshans on Netflix.
I am also reading a lot of saved articles and spending way too much time on Substack.
I may have started another newsletter, but we’ll talk about that later. 👀
Update your books
I take this time to update my tracker. Which invoices are cleared, and which need reminders.
I’ve got client-wise trackers too—draft links, published links, all in one place so I don’t have to dig through emails later.
Also update my income tracker, sometimes glance at the goals tracker and realign where I’m headed this month.
I write my newsletters every week, usually running late and scheduling before I doze off on my laptop.
Some social posts are planned, most are ad hoc.
Other newsletters are chill. I write and publish on them when I feel like it.
I mindfully don’t work on the weekends and try to spend most time off the screen. I got a coloring book, I’m solving Rubix cube under 2 mins and read books (well, this is an everyday ritual).

So yeah, If you’re in a dry phase or still looking for clients, don’t let it dull your spark. Keep that momentum alive. It really helps when things suddenly go from 0 to 100.
For me, it’ll take some getting used to with this new client. Daily work, actual syncs, tight AF deadlines. But we’ll survive. Probably.

Also… when will summer end??? My wrists are about to have a 3rd degree burn from my laptop overheating in this heat!!!
This week, Trending on Fully Content (my B2B newsletter)
I’ll see you next Friday!
(if I survive)
Love,
Nikita