Dotty Scott discusses how to schedule work and personal time across time zones. She covers accommodating West Coast clients from Eastern Time, mixing personal hours with work, and adjusting start times to rest after late appointments.
So I'm curious, when you're doing your calendar and you're putting in your business time and your personal time, is your, you know, with the exception of like the doctor's appointments that you mentioned, is your personal time before or after like standard work hours, or are you mixing it, or how does that work for you?
I try to mix it up because sometimes, especially so I'm on East Coast time, Eastern time, But I see clients, you know, all over the country, all over the world. So I do have some after 5 or 6 PM hours for clients to accommodate a West Coast schedule. And so when I do that, maybe the next day, the day later, I'll start, the next day I'll start a little bit later. So I try to accommodate that for myself, whereas instead of starting at 9 o'clock on, like if I'm seeing a, you know, some clients later on, on a Wednesday, I maybe I won't start till noon on Thursday. And that way I can get some rest in, get some personal time in, and then I'll see my clients, you know, 11, 12, and then stop at 5.
