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I killed my Xbox addiction (and wrote 6 books instead)
“How do you find the time for daily articles/newsletter content AND the time to actually write your books?”
A reader asked me that question on social media a few days ago. A question like hers has two parts.
She wants to find time to create content but struggles to balance multiple creative projects.
Here’s the approach I used to write 6+ books (including a USA Today best-seller), my newsletter, and also find time for client work.
Finding time to write
I feel tense and stressed when I want to be in two places or do things simultaneously, like bending a stick until it snaps. So I pick one project to work on first thing.
For a few years, that project was a book. When I’d a full-time job as a copywriter for a Fintech, I got up around five or six to work on them. I gave up gaming on my Xbox late at night. I still missed gaming, but I enjoyed writing more than levelling up in Call of Duty.
I quit my job, and now I work full-time at my business. I canned the 5 am starts because I was sick of looking at bags under my eyes! I start to work around nine when the kids are at school and the house is quiet.
