Many authors dream of writing books for a living because of the work-life balance they believe it will give them.  It is true that writing is a profession that can be done from home, but like any work endeavour, it is important to set boundaries for your writing to avoid it taking over your life and to ensure that your writing gets the ‘best out of you’ – that is, you only write when you are feeling creative, not tired or stressed out!

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If you are going to get the book that is inside of you – out, you will need to develop certain habits to not only capture the thoughts and ideas that you have, but also to set aside regular time to get these streams of consciousness onto paper (or computer!) which will eventually form your book.

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This is part two of the article ‘Is Multi-tasking Causing You Mayhem?’ and the message last time was ‘focus and finish’.  Now we can follow on and deal with ‘planning and prioritising’ and how to ‘simplify through systems’.  This article being a prime example – even Publishing Academy resources are broken down into ‘bite sized’ chunks to avoid overloading and confusing us both – a great example of multi-tasking!

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If there’s one thing that we can all identify with, it’s the fact that we are busier than ever!  On some levels is great to be popular! On others, it can cause stress when the volume of tasks becomes too great to handle.

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