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Day-in-the-life of a Notion Consultant + Pinterest Predicts: 2024

Day-in-the-life of a Notion Consultant + Pinterest Predicts: 2024

The internet has been EXPLODING with BNE (Big Notion Energy) - here are some of the best bits.

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Day-in-the-life of a Notion Consultant + Pinterest Predicts: 2024
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Hey, 2,181 Notion Rebels- ✨44% of you opened last issue✨

I’m Frances, a Certified Notion Consultant + Founder of The Notion Bar (150+ clients), Black Notion Twitter and the profuntivity movement. Enjoy this little curation of what’s new in The Notion Zeitgeist + at The Notion Bar

If this past week was a GIF, it would be:

First of all, I’m obsessed with my walking pad & my 2024 journal broke $1k!

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Some calm in the productivity storm

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📰 This week in The Notion Zeitgeist

🧹 Official Notion tidy-along ⋰ 📰 Break up with your spreadsheets ⋰ 📺 Managing a 6 Figure Side Hustle With Notion ⋰ 🕵🏽 What is Notion hiding? ⋰ 📚 How to write great Notion AI prompts ⋰ 🎨 Notion-logo, yassified ⋰ 🤯 Sneaky Notion hiring⋰ 🌟 Day in the life of a Notion consultant* ⋰ 👉 Getting My Life Together With Notion ⋰ 📓 2024 journal

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🔮 What’s new with Notion?

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🪩 This week in ✨Profuntivity✨

”Adding layers of fun into your werkflow, while being realistic about what you can actually get done” - future bestseller?!

🚀 How I recycle my tweets° ⋰ 🍹 Hangovers Out. Mocktails In. ⋰ 📰 RiRi brings her boy to work ⋰ 🌟 Hygge out, Gezellig in ⋰ 💡 You don't need a crazy idea ⋰ ✨ New year, value reset? ⋰ 📢 I'm officially a walking pad girlie

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🌶 Day-in-the-life of a Notion Consultant

@fro_deraback on… the grind? #notion #smallbizowner #freelancer #blackgirl
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So believe it or not, most of my time as Certified Notion Consultant isn’t actually spent doing client work 😅 Only about 40% of my time is spent doing client work - the other 70% is spent doing sales, making content, replying to comments, emails, strategy, accounting, learning, PR…

Yes, the maths is deliberately wrong here as running a business is great, but you never *actually* clock-out. 2 things that have helped me organise my time lately, the ‘habit nudger’, found in my journal template, helps me stay accountable to my daily non-negotiables e.g. answering emails and staying on top pitches/invoices. Additionally, my VIP day package has helped me time-block client work - 10,000/10,000 would recommend.


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