 Good morning people. This is Lugano at 640 in the morning and a couple lights on a couple of people commuting to work Anyway, it's time for me to commute to work, which means heading over to my office Over here Stopping at coffee along the way My first thing in the morning is usually I always have a task ready first thing in the morning If you read all those productivity Blogs or books or tips or whatever, you know They always say don't check email first thing in the morning and stuff like that and I'm a big adherent to that And so first thing in the morning. I always have something set up this morning. It has to do with sales I'm tweaking these emails that I'm gonna be sending out to legal firms for sales And so that's what I'm working on now. So I'll do that and this is this We're going this is the same view, but at 830 we're probably 45 right now And as you can see the light has come out and it's a brand new day here in Lugano, Switzerland So what happened? Really backlit So what happened was I created these sales emails and what I'm doing I wanted to speak a bit more about it because I think sales is extremely important for freelance translators And so I'm really trying to get better at it. I have a sequence of six emails that I'm sending out and And I'm getting email addresses. Well, I used to get them haphazardly or try to search for them wherever now I actually hire someone online to give me email addresses and you know, I'll get like 200 email addresses from a Virtual assistant online who helps me out with them someone who does data research in specific areas in specific industries And then I target them right now I'm going to be targeting people in the legal industry in the German part of Switzerland and you know See if I can provide translations for them as I mentioned a couple times I'm also transitioning into an agency and working with other translators to provide many different languages So that's what I'm going to be trying to do and that's what I've been working on so far this morning Okay, I mean I can yeah and I can evaluate how how hard I want to make it for them or not I guess but actually yeah, that should be good for now Well, the call went on for about an hour and a half but but it was good because actually I was able to get quite a bit of stuff done and Now I'll go over the website see how that works. Anyway, now I need to get some work done going to a coffee shop and Unfortunately in spritzland, we don't have star but or at least my part of spritzland We don't have Starbucks. We don't have those other types of coffee shops So going to a coffee shop means going to either co-op or me gross or manner And so that's what I'm doing right now gonna pass by manner But I think I'll end up at the me gross close to the airport get some work done there until my meeting at 2 p.m Here we go So I'll talk to you then two hours later so The me gross was full full full full of people because it was lunch time So I ended up going to this coffee shop close to the Ikea here, which had the worst ink internet connection ever So anyway, I was barely able to get anything done. Actually I got quite a bit done everything considered but yeah, that'll teach me to Go look for an internet connection during lunchtime here in the vinyl Unfortunately when you're in Lugano, those are some of the things that you need to take into account Yeah, in terms of stuff like that actually Lugano is very inconvenient because even the you know down in Italy, it's better and And up in this German part of Switzerland is better, but here in Lugano. That's what are you gonna do? Now I'm heading over There's some repairs that need to be made to the house so I'm heading over there to talk to the repair guy and get a quote and Then I need to get some more work done, but I'll probably do it from home And that's about it. Also, I didn't take the clue that everyone else was eating during lunchtime So I didn't eat so I'm really starving which means now I'm having this Bon appetit And now I'm back home. I'm gonna get some work done Before the end of the day before the end of the work day In fact, I just got a call but from a guy who wants to translate a book But he's looking for a very very low price which unfortunately I cannot accommodate now but we'll see what happens and Yeah, otherwise that's it I want to finish up some stuff and then if I have time go downtown get some photo copies done And maybe buy some groceries and stuff, but we'll see how that goes. Anyway, now it's back to work 6 p.m. It's time to go jogging and Maybe if I take a break, I'll take some pictures too 20 minutes later I'm back I'm back After a good jog out of breath Time to go home and eat some dinner This music I listen to while I jog. I'm cooking dinner I realized that I came back to Switzerland about a week ago And so I've been doing this and I should have done it when I was back in Taiwan because that would have been pretty fun unfortunately there I was with my wife and You know, we're really busy doing all our stuff there. So I mean it just I didn't think about it But you know, we'll see where we go It looks like in a month or two we'll actually be moving to the States So I'll definitely do one from there if that's the case. Otherwise, this is another day my life now I'm cooking dinner back here and and then I'm gonna relax chillax and Call it a night. That's the cool thing about being a freelancer You can run errands and stuff during the day if you want to and you know skip out on traffic You don't have to do it after work or Saturday like everyone else But it also means that you need to keep on top of your own stuff and you need to you know Keep on top of what you need to do. You need to be able to do it well set your own schedule be your own boss all that good stuff and That's my life. So that's what I've been doing and hopefully you found it useful. You found that informative and I'll talk to you next time. Bye