It’s the most common question I get:
How do you find the time to do everything you do?
Until now, I’ve never had a ready answer, except that I have few obligations and responsibilities outside of my own career. But after pondering the reasons, I’ve written this post over at Writer Unboxed: The Secret to Finding the Time to Write, Market, Promote, and Still Have a Life.
I offer up 5 ways YOU can find the time in the coming year to be as productive as you want:
- Decide what you’ll stop doing—and I’m not talking about turning off the TV.
- Pay someone to do stuff you don’t like.
- Say good-bye to guilt and obligation.
- Be good at what you do.
- Spend the most time on what matters most to you.
Lots more elaboration at the post. Go read.
Jane Friedman has spent her entire career working in the publishing industry, with a focus on business reporting and author education. Established in 2015, her newsletter The Bottom Line provides nuanced market intelligence to thousands of authors and industry professionals; in 2023, she was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World.
Jane’s expertise regularly features in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, The Today Show, Wired, The Guardian, Fox News, and BBC. Her book, The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition (The University of Chicago Press), is used as a classroom text by many writing and publishing degree programs. She reaches thousands through speaking engagements and workshops at diverse venues worldwide, including NYU’s Advanced Publishing Institute, Frankfurt Book Fair, and numerous MFA programs.
More good advice from Jane. Thanks!
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Exactly! I need to get better at letting things go and outsourcing. I also need to be better at focusing my energies in the right places so that I will actually write instead of doing all the things around it.
You nailed it.
Should I could accuse you of plagiarism, or suggest that it’s just great minds thinking alike? My list looks identical to yours. And I might add (at the risk of sounding like I’m sucking up to you) that your blog is among the very few that survived #1.
LOL! Must be something in the air. Thank you, Jim.
Congratulations on the Top Blogger selection!
MJ Hammond , Publisher
Minstrel’s Alley
http://www.minstrelsalley.com