1. Track your time

Keep a close eye on how much time you spend on individual tasks. Your time is your most valuable resource. Tools like primaTime help you see how many hours are truly billable—and how many disappear into non-billable activities. You might even discover time you forgot to charge for.

2. Monitor both income and expenses per project

Invoice your work correctly, track the actual time spent, wages, and other project costs. Regularly analyse your numbers. That’s how you’ll know whether a project is profitable and if your hourly rates are set correctly.

3. Keep everything in one place

Calendar, project tasks, invoicing, clients… If you’re still managing data manually or on paper, it’s costing you time and energy. Go digital. Connect your tools and systems.

4. Think like a business, not an individual

Tracking your work isn’t micromanagement—it’s the path to more freedom. You’ll know exactly what your work costs. That means you can delegate, streamline, or raise your prices where the profit is real.