I try to me loose with it, if I can push, the coffee pot goes on and I go in to the belly of the beast until I've got nothing left, (hopefully returning victorious)
Other days I wake up and I've got nothing, so I take it slow, do some light admin and perifery work and take a long bath and just CHILL...
The key is listening to yourself and taking things day by day.I try to keep client work flexible enough that if I need to take an emergency break I can, usually the long hustle days provide for that :)
That' being said, sometimes I'm the worst boss I've ever had- I should chill way more often really...
So you keep it super flexible? Do you literally decide in the morning what you will work on, based on how you feel that day? Sounds like a pretty relaxed setup, although I might get some anxiety about picking the right/wrong days to hustle if I played it that loose.
Yep, that's what I TRY to do anyway, of course client demand plays a part, so if I've had a particularly tough week, as soon as things settle down I start to take it easy, even if I still feel like I CAN work, I know that if I don't take time out, by the next swell of work I'll be SUPER burnt.
I find anxiety happens regardless so you might as well have a bath or a day watching star trek in sweats now and again ;)