Author Balancing Act

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I surround myself with a group of authors of like mind and this past week, they have been the awesome while I've been the suk.

It happens.

I'm not down because I have awesome sauce days and everybody's going to have the rain splatter on your burger days too.

If you read this blog regularly you'll see the Cover mishap, the Free Kindle Book splurge, the endless cover passover for a new authors cover. But what's been amazing is watching my author's soar. They have been inspiration, support and awesome sauce this past week. I'm amazed at their ability to scramble about and make it look effortless. 

Balancing life as an Author is much like having a dog. It needs to go for a walk. It needs food. It needs water. It paws at you for attention. It's not all writing.

Wait...what? Not all writing?

You have a life. That life requires balance. Sometimes you can't blog because, well, life happens.

What will help you balance life?

The answer is so easy that you'll prolly throw tomatoes at me.  Drum-roll...

Organization.

~ Ducks under counter ~

I use flash cards.

~ Ducks under counter ~

I use an app called Any.do

~ Ducks under sofa ~

Google calendar

~ Ducks behind refrigerator ~

and I have a To Do List Book that I use as well.

~ Splat. Wipes off tomato. ~

Organization is balance on schedule. My Ultrachron lite app is set to 45 minutes and every time that puppy barks at me I get up, walk around, take in some water and decide if I'm going to continue what I'm doing or go to the next item on the list. A side effect to this is I feel like I've done something. It feels good to cross off an item from the list.

ACTION ITEM: Try making a list, setting a schedule and seeing if that works.

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