It’s super important to take care of YOU. When you don’t, you won’t have the energy or the focus you need to write powerfully, creatively and efficiently. In fact, if you aren’t doing what you need to do to take care of yourself, writing will feel more like a chore or a frustration than the joy and outlet it should feel like.

Common Concern Is Enough Time

A common question (or maybe it seems like an excuse) that almost all writers have is how they are supposed to find the time to do something for themselves when they are already swamped with work, family, household chores and trying to make time for writing, editing and marketing. Yet, it’s exceptionally important to do that - find time for just you without interruptions or being pulled in all different directions by everyone else.

Finding the time isn’t necessarily as difficult as committing to make that time YOURS. Below, you’ll find tips and advice on how to find up to 30 minutes of time each and every day for you to just be with you and to take the pressure of the day and of life off you momentarily. This practice will open up your creativity and you’ll even write more efficiently.

Decompress After Work

Take 5-10 minutes to decompress after work or writing. You can come home or out of your office and take longer in the bathroom. Or, you can make arrangements with your family that when you get home (or stop working) that you get 10 minutes of quiet time in your bedroom with the door shut.

Morning Quiet Time

Take an extra 5 minutes in the morning to sit quietly with YOU. Either in the shower or get up just 5 minutes earlier and meditate. If you don’t have the time already available to you, set your alarm 5-10 minutes earlier, so that you can have that time.

Daytime Breaks

Take breaks during your work day - even if you work from home. Take 5 minutes or an hour. It doesn’t matter as long as you take a few minutes to be quiet or to laugh or to go for a walk or to skip around the house.

Add It All Up

If you take 5-10 minutes in the morning, 5-10 minutes once or twice a day and 5-10 minutes in the evening, you’ll have 15-30 minutes of YOU time every day! You’ll be amazed at what that can do for you!

Go Beyond Your Daily Dose of YOU Time

Beyond your daily dose of YOU time, schedule yourself a solid 30 minutes once a week. Spend that time focusing on you. You may choose to invest that time on a writing coaching call. It may be used watching a video to learn something or to just laugh your butt off. It may be spent reading a good book. It may be spent going to a class or doing a hobby. Or maybe, you just spend that 30 minutes every week daydreaming about your most exciting big dreams.