<aside> 💡 Take the pressure off of a fellow business owner by taking a photo of the permission slip template below with your phone. With the photo-editing feature, fill in the blanks; see the following page for a few suggestions to start with. Share your permission slip with other Free Timers by tagging #ItsFreeTime. Download a digital version here, and browse what others share, visit ItsFreeTime.com/permission.

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• Text Version

Permission Slip Thought Starters

Here are twenty starting ideas you can prescribe to a friend with the template on the previous page, with a few examples of permission slips I have sent to friends:

• Drop everything but your deep work
• Do what’s most delightful
• Sleep in tomorrow, even though it’s _______day
• Take a social media sabbatical
• When in doubt, go without
• Give yourself a raise (or double your rates)
• Make serendipity a business strategy
• Invite a nonlinear breakthrough
• Eat ice cream in the middle of the day
• Procrastinate
• Stop worrying what “they” will say
• Let it be easy, let it be fun
• Rest
• Say no to _____________________