Signs You Need a Break from Your Writing Work
Ever felt crushed by the mountain of work you need to get done? Or that one more deadline added to your calendar will be the straw that makes you feel crazy? Sometimes when we've been working hard for long periods of time, there are certain things that start to pop up to let us know we need a break. Maybe it's not a full-on vacation or week off…but in this week's live, we're talking through steps to put in place so you can feel refreshed and ready to get back to writing well.
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Sometimes when we're writers, we end up in these really ironic places. And today is my ironic place. So today we're talking about signs that you need a break from your writing work. And this is something that I recently have been just having a lot of stuff happen at once. And sometimes it's just happens as a writer, you end up going through these periods where you have some work and then all of a sudden, everything just kind of dumps on you at once. And for me, that's kind of my ironic place today is like, I just have a lot of things. So it just kind of like happened all at once and it doesn't, you know, it's, it's just something that kind of happens, but there are signs to look for that you need a break. And I know for me, like I kind of just need a break.
And so my plan is to take this weekend and just kind of like lower the stimuli and just try to like take a breather and take a rest and not focus on my work. Just kind of gel, just kind of let it, you know, just enjoy the regular stuff that happens when I'm not working. So let's talk about some signs. So the first thing I have in my notes is that we want to talk about signs to notice. So one of the things that I know happens for me is I feel frustrated a lot. And I know that as I feel like I need a break, I get more and more frustrated at a like a descending amount of stuff. So basically like I'm frustrated at a big amount of stuff. And then as like things kind of build up along the way, I get frustrated at like little things that normally don't bug me.
Hey, Getty, welcome in. And I know that that's a sign, like when I start getting frustrated at all these little things that don't matter, like I'm never going to even look back on them the next day or the next week and say like, oh yeah, that was so annoying. It's just like frustrating me now. Just because I'm super sensitive because I'm just kind of feeling like I need a break, you know? Or I feel like I have a lot of assignments. And instead of putting that down, right, instead of just being like, all right, this is what I have to do. And here's what I need to do to get all of my assignments done. I'm just going to put these down and focus on the things that need to get done right now. I start focusing on everything and then that just kind of like builds into everything else. Oh my gosh. We have a hot, a whole visitor by choice. Oh, she's not on the hop hole cam. Let's put her on the Hobbit hole cam. There she is. She's on the have a whole ham. You're so funny. You, you hardly ever go over there now. You guys are like, just separated enough that you both can't be on camera at the same time. Cool.
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Right. We had to have a whole visitor, so we had to stop for the Hobbit hole. So one of the signs is that, you know, you're getting frustrated with your work. You're getting frustrated. Hey Linda, welcome in. You're getting frustrated with all of these things that are happening in your business that normally wouldn't bug you. Like there's just little things like sometimes for me, what helps me stay on track is that I have a lot of reminders. So in my business, I put everything into my, I Cal like my apple calendar and I just set like a hundred reminders for everything. And sometimes I just know when all these reminders are going off. Boom, boom, boom, boom. And it's really bothering me rather than being me being like, oh yeah, don't forget to do this thing. I know that's a sign. I kind of need a break.
I need to just stop thinking about work all the time. And I need to kind of decompress. I need some time and space just to kind of restroom that, another sign that I noticed when I kind of need a break. It's just that I keep saying I'm tired. I don't even notice sometimes how many times I say it. I just get reminded like, Hey, you keep saying you're tired. And it's just something where like, I just, I don't know. It's just like, how are you? I'm tired. And when I get reminded that I've been saying that a lot. That's when I know like, oh wait, I need to kinda like stop thinking about work so much. I need to kinda like put work, you know, on a little tiny paper boat and let it swim out to sea for a little while and I'll go get it later.
But I know that when I keep saying stuff like that, like when I say I'm tired or when I notice how tired I am, that's when I kind of need to put work on a, on a little pause or, you know, sometimes what ends up happening is it takes a little bit longer for me to get back on emails. It takes a little bit longer for me to get back on DMS and that's sometimes schedule based. Sometimes it's deadline based. Sometimes I have other things going on where, you know, I'm trying to shine to get back to everybody. And sometimes what ends up happening is just like, I'm like, I'm not going to be able to respond as my best self I'm going to respond later. Or like, I can't handle this right now.
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I can't handle this right now because I'm doing all these other things. I'll get to it later. So sometimes that's something that just happens. It's kind of a sign you're like, all right. I need like kind of a bit more space in terms of in terms of getting all of my work done, having time for myself, separating myself from my work a little bit. And then just not thinking about all the stuff I have to do that coming week. So sometimes that little bit of like, I'm tired just comes from like, you know what you did this week and then over the, or whenever you take your time off, you're thinking about, oh, well I have to do all this stuff next week. Like I'm already tired from that and I haven't even started it yet. So sometimes that's another sign is just like, you're tired, another sign that we want to make sure that we work, that we pay attention to is that we're not getting as like excited for things.
So sometimes what ends up happening is you have these really cool projects and you're really excited about them. And then you just kind of like lose your excitement for them, right? Like you kind of get in this space where you're like so stressed by the deadline, or you're so stressed by doing this type of work or you're overwhelmed by the amount of new stuff you have to do or overwhelmed by, you know, you didn't realize how big the scope was, whatever it is. It can kind of like, it sort of like air out of a balloon, right? You were like really excited and now you're like, Ugh, not so much. And that can be a sign that you kind of just need to take a step back and figure out where you're going to get your sparkle again. Right. It's kind of like this sparkle where you're like very excited and you're looking forward to doing the work and you're looking forward to doing all these things that are going to help another company create great content.
Right. And if you find yourself in a place where you're just kind of like overwhelmed or you're just like all these things you were excited about, you kind of need to, you know, back up a little bit, you kind of need to give yourself a little room to kinda like, think about that. Like for me, I know that I sometimes just need a break. I just need to take a little break. And sometimes I just need to kind of like separate myself from the work to be like, what's going on? Like what's, what are you kind of feeling what's kind of happening? Was there anything new that happened that kind of made you feel less excited about the project? Or is there anything that just kind of like, you know, personal stuff, like sometimes, you know, we, you know, as much as we try to separate our work from our personal stuff, you know, we try to focus on our work, get that done.
And then we have time to focus on our personal stuff. Sometimes those things just kind of mushed together and it's really hard to deal with. Sometimes you have so much going on in your personal life, you have a really hard time handling all of your work. It's just a lot at once. And that sometimes can lead to all of these feelings of like, whoa, I need a break. Like I need to kind of step away for a second. I need to kind of like sometimes like, just to be honest, like sometimes what happens is I sit at my desk just in the silence. And that just kinda like helps me lower all of the stuff that's going on. It helps me it helps me kind of decompress. It kind of helps me get a better perspective because if I'm always like clicking buttons and if I'm always moving around and doing this thing and that thing, and it's just like too much at once. But sometimes if you just sit at your desk or if you just sit somewhere just quietly for awhile, that can really help get everything in perspective. And sometimes what really helps is by doing that, by sitting there, you get some questions that arise. So for me, it's like, I have to kind of get some space, excuse me, sometimes to
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What my thoughts are like, what am I actually thinking? That's making me feel this way. And then also what kind of questions arise that are like popping up? Like sometimes we're so doing so many different things, we're so into our work we're so in the weeds that we forget that there's like other things going on, or we end up in this place where we just don't pay attention to like what our body is saying or what our mind is saying. We're just like, we have to do this work and we get so focused on it. And the difference is that when you kind of sit quietly, all these things kind of pop up, they're like, well, why did this happen? Or why, what happened to make you feel this way? Or is it really the project or is something else going on that's making you feel, not excited about this?
Or, you know, what's kind of going on with this other thing over here that you're not even really thinking about. You're just ignoring it. And sometimes sitting quietly kind of shows you like, Hey, we just kinda need a little break. Maybe it's a few hours, or maybe it's the weekend, or maybe you just need to plan a week off. Sometimes you don't always need a week off. Sometimes you don't always need vacation time. But a lot of times what ends up happening is when you sit kind of quietly, all these things kind of bubble up, you know, you're not clicking buttons, you're not paying attention, all this stuff. And these things kind of bubble up to make you kind of like, be more aware of what's going on. And that awareness is kind of how we solve the problem. Right. If we don't really know what's going on, if we aren't as aware or we're really struggling with someone, something someone else can kind of help give us perspective on that.
Someone could kind of like, you know, whether that's a partner or a friend or a parent or a therapist or somebody else you trust or someone in a group, like sometimes we need perspective on that to make sure that we're kind of getting all the right stuff in order. So that's some science we're going to move to steps in a second. What are you doing over there? What are you doing? Oh, we've got movement. Maybe we'll do a quick pup date. Hi, can you get in your hovel please? Thank you. That's now you're have a whole back up, back up into your rabbit hole back up there. There you go. Good job. Good job.
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We did a quick pup date and make sure we get the pup dates in because if you don't, if you're not doing any pup dates, that might be a sign that you need to take a break from your white writing work. If you're not excited about a pup date, then you might need a break. Okay. one last sign that I wanted to go over that you may need a break from your writing is that you just feel like there's nothing else left that you can give out. So this is kind of that concept where you feel like your cup is empty and yet you're still trying to like pour from it and you're really struggling to kind of get everything together. So there's these times where you need to kind of fill your cup. And when you say like my thing sometimes where I say is like, I don't have any more points.
Like I don't have any more points. There's nothing left in the cup. Like I can't make another decision today. And sometimes you need to kind of pay attention to that when you're kind of feeling like there's a lot being asked of you or you feel like even if there's not a lot being asked of you, maybe it's just a couple of things and you're just overwhelmed by them. And you're just like, I need to worry. Like I need to fill my own stuff before I start participating with everybody else. And that's really important. And I know that some people think that when you start worrying about your own self, right, it feels selfish, but you can't actually help everybody else. If you're always kind of in this area where you have this empty cup, like, you feel like everybody's taking from you. Right. And I've noticed this with other writers and I've noticed this sometimes with myself, like when I burned out, it just felt like everything is being taken.
You don't really feel like you you're giving stuff. You don't feel like you're like, yeah, we're given all this stuff or really helping people. We're doing all these cool things you would feel like, oh my gosh, like I have to give this and I have to take this. And this has be, you know, it kind of gets into this slimy gross ball of, of like not good feelings. Right. So when you kind of feel like that you kind of have to work on filling your own cup, right? Like there's always that phrase, like you can't pour from an empty cup. Right. Which I might've already said, but the whole point is that you have to figure out how to do that. And sometimes like, it's different for everybody. So for me, sometimes that's taken a nap sometimes as prioritizing sleep. Like I've been really trying to do that recently.
Just prioritize my sleep because I know that when I'm really tired, that makes everything really work like a lot worse. So prioritizing sleep or not sending alarms, like trying to just get the sleep and then do my work. And the other space that I have during the day sometimes what ends up happening is like walking. The dogs really helps because I see how much joy they get out of going on a walk, we call it blurbing B, B, L O R B I N G blurbing because we have these little bright lights that we put on them at nights. They're like little orbs, they're blue orbs. So we said blurbing. And so we, we take our dogs at night now because it's summer and in Austin, it's just like way too hot to take them during the day. And otherwise you have to get up really early in the morning.
And as someone who's prioritizing sleep, that's not working for me right now. So we take them at night and we put on their little blue lights and we go blurbing and it's so funny to see how excited they get when you take them on these nighttime walks. And, you know, they try to catch the bugs or like Bo is kind of slower, you know, he's almost 15 and Charlotte's about eight and a half, I think. Right? Yeah. Charlotte's eight and a half. So she's got a lot of pep in her step in both kinda like he's got pep in his step for a little bit. And then he kind of, you know, he slows down. So we kind of try to keep them together. And it's just funny, you know, like when I'm waiting, you know, for Bo to catch up right. When we're waiting for Beau to catch up and Charlotte's kind of hanging around and she's like jumping in the weeds, she's looking at all this stuff, she's smelling a bug, she's trying to eat them off.
Like they're, you know, just the little joy that they get and going on these walks really helps me feel a lot better. It helps fill my cup back up. And it reminds me that there's like a lot of good stuff. You know, there's a lot of good stuff going on. Sometimes what helps me is I write things down. So like I get a, you know, a journal or some sort of piece of paper and I just hand write some things like what's going on. Let's, you know, write this down, let's talk about this. And that kind of helps me get it out of my mind. That kind of helps me like barf it out. So I don't have to hold onto it the whole time. And it kind of helps me just move into the next phase of kind of solving the problem.
Like it, it kind of lets me get all of my distracting thoughts out onto paper. So I don't have to hold them in my mind. I get to put them all on paper. I don't have to hold onto them anymore. And it kind of helps me say like, alright, now I can actually problem solve. I don't have all these things floating around in my mind. I don't have all these kind of like randomized thoughts that happen. I could kind of just put them all on paper and let them go, just let them go. And that kind of helps fill your cup. Right. You're kind of getting out all the gross so you can kind of make more room for the positive stuff. So I really helps to make sure that you are finding the things that help you build your cup. Like sometimes that's people spend more time with their kids.
Sometimes that's people they go do activities, like depending on how comfortable you are with the current, you know, all the pandemic stuff. Normally, you know, we can go do activities. Like I used to go to free museums. Like I used to just go and walk around museums or I would go to a restaurant and get some takeout or something or I would go coworking. There was a lot of stuff that I did that really filled my cup. And sometimes zoom meetings are great. Like zoom meetings, like not even meetings, just like calls with my friends. And that really helps me feel a lot better. Are you falling asleep? So you kind of have to figure out, are you falling asleep, you are falling asleep, funny little dog. Sometimes you have to figure out what's going to, you know, fill your cup and what's going to make you feel better about, you know, what's kind of going on. We have the crinkly bag today. Cause I didn't put the Trudeau's in our normal quiet cup. So enjoy the sprinkles.
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You guys are getting a lot of treats say, oh, where are you going? Where are you rolling? Now? We just got some tail wags. There's a sort of quality tail lag, Charlotte. Good job. So you got to figure out what are the types of things you can do? We got some music in the background, so stop lagging. We, we have to kind of figure out the things that like make us feel better. The things that kind of bring in all the good stuff they bring in all the good things to make us kind of remember that there's good stuff, right? That there's all these things that are happening that are positive. And it's not always like, it's not always the situation where you're trying to, you know, deal with all these different things at once. It's not always going to be overwhelming. It's not always going to be very heavy feeling.
Just like you kind of get into these states, right? We kind of get into these states where like, oh my gosh, like I need a break from my, all my deadlines, all my stuff. Just like we get into them. We get out of them as well. So if you find yourself being stuck for long periods of time, if you find yourself being stuck in long periods of time, one thing is you gotta look at your business and see how it's running, got to figure out how you can make some adjustments on basically your steps and framework and how you kind of put your business together. Cause it's just not working. And this is what I did when I burned out in 2018 was I kind of had to deconstruct my business and see, see that like all these things weren't working, I had to rebuild.
I had to just restructure all these things. And that's really important. The other piece is that, you know, maybe sometimes like for me talking to somebody else, like talking to a mental health, professional therapist, counselor, whatever, that really helps a lot. It gives you this outside perspective that you just didn't think of. You're like they ask you questions. They're listening to all this stuff. You're like, all of these things are going on. And they really kind of help you pick it apart so you can move forward. It's not really about sitting in it and dwelling in it. It's about like getting it out, talking to them and them giving you, you know, them helping you walk yourself through, have solved that problem. It's, it's more about getting in a place where, well, it's more about getting out of a place where you feel so encompassed by all these things and being like, all right, let me take that off, put this over here.
Let's look at it instead of living in it. And that's really important. All right. So when we're going to go over a couple more things, so steps, so steps that we want to put in place are kind of like how we want to make sure that we fill our cup up. So steps could be, you take a break, you like take a vacation, you take the weekend off, you take a three-day weekend. Steps are you, you move your deadlines out steps. Are you do the things that fill your cup that make you feel a lot better about how things are going? Steps are you could talk to somebody else to get an outside perspective, use some sort of journal. You can write these things down, you can take them out of your head and examine them steps, or sometimes like sometimes you just need to kind of like, get it out, cry, cry, or be angry, or you know, feel all your feelings, which I resisted for a very, very long time.
Like most of my life I resisted that and it just made it a lot more difficult. But if you kind of just like sit there in the silence and like feel all the stuff and process and deal with it that helps you move forward a lot more so than ignoring what's really going on. Like if you kind of are just like, it's fine, I'll just put it down. It's fine. I feel fine. That never really works. It ends up being this thing that just kind of creeps up on you over time. It ends up being this thing where you don't realize it's a big issue until it's too late. Like you just keep putting things in the it's fine pile. You're just like, it's fine. It's fine. It's fine. And you just do it over and over again. And then the pile becomes so big.
It, you know, it's like a tidal wave. It comes over you. And then you're like, what happened? I don't get it. You know? And you're just like, oh, this is what happened. Like I ignored all these times that I should have addressed how I really was feeling or how I really, you know, this thing happened. And when you ignore that, that kind of comes back as the tidal wave. So another step that you can take is just kind of like slow down. This is something I really struggle with. So I'm telling you that this is a good thing. I've seen lots of people do that I really struggle with and I can only do it sometimes. I'm really trying to work on this. I promise. But slowing down is kind of this way to be like, nothing's going to happen. If you don't answer an email today, nothing's going to happen.
If you don't get back to a DM, nothing's going to happen. If you don't answer a client today, like if you just don't have the space to do it, don't do it. The slowing down part is just, you know, maybe you need to kind of like take a few less assignments recently. Like maybe you need to work on your planning for the rest of the year and how you're going to structure that and your time off and your break times the slowing down part sometimes just means like you take a day off, like when you feel really, you take a day off. You're just like, you know what? I know I have a deadline. I have enough time to get the deadline done. So I'm just going to take today off. And sometimes that makes you get a lot better work done the next day.
Like I know for me sometimes I really, again, this was only I resisted was like, I can't take a day off. I have a deadline, but there's times when I have like two or three or four days before my deadline, or I have several weeks before my deadline. And I'm like, oh my gosh, I can't take a day off. And when I take a day off the next day, I'm just way more productive. I feel a lot better. I didn't feel like I pushed myself to do something I didn't really feel or want to do. And when you find yourself pushing yourself to do all these things you don't want to do over and over and over again, that's when you get into this space where you're like, I need a break, I need a break. I've, I've compromised what I want to do too many times.
And it's really important that you take the steps necessary to protect, you know, that writer inside of you, that you protect your creativity, you protect your ability to get, you know, give good work. You protect your ability to be great with your clients. You protect all of these things that help us run a better business. Like you send your stuff on time, you pay attention to all your invoices. You know, what's going on, like who paid and who didn't, you know, what emails you need to get back to? What kinds of things are a priority of which kind of things you can deal with later on? Like maybe you have multiple assignments and you're like, all right, I know I have four more assignments, but I just need to do this one right now. So you kind of have to take steps to do that.
The last thing that we're going to talk about here, we only have a few more minutes. The last thing we're going to talk about is noticing when we feel ready to kind of write again. So for me, I'm going to, you know, I'm going to feel more excited about the project. When I feel ready to write again, I'm like, I'm ready to dive into this. Like, I'm ready to go do this research. I'm ready to put all these things together. I start feeling like I'm looking forward to it instead of dreading it, I'm looking forward to all this cool stuff. So instead of getting in this place where I feel like everything is just kind of like sitting on me, right. It's just like a big elephant of paperwork sitting on me. I start feeling like, yeah, like I, I start getting better ideas. I start feeling more open.
I don't feel so like clamshell. I'm not like, no, I can't do that right now. Leave me alone. Like that. That really that's like, I have a lot of these like funny little things that I do, but that's really what happens in my mind. My mind is like, no, no more. We're done get away like that kind of stuff. And then what, what happens is that clam is like, actually come back, let's, let's try this. And it's like, oh, this is so cool. Let's try again. You know, it's kind of like that. And when I start feeling that way, like, I feel like I'm ready to take these things on, or I feel like, oh, you know what? This isn't as bad as I thought. Or if I start feeling like, I'm like, oh, you know, what would be great? Is this really cool thing?
I just discovered let's add this into the project and see what they think. And like all that's like when you start getting fresh ideas, when you start feeling like you can move forward, when you start kind of getting these, like, I call they're like little fireworks of ideas where they're like, oh yeah, what about this? Or what about that? When you start feeling more like there's good stuff coming up when you start feeling like there's, there's different things for everybody, for me, it's kind of like feeling like I can move forward. It makes me feel hopeful. It makes me feel like I'm not under so much pressure. It makes me feel like I just have all these options. Instead of feeling pressured into like a small box of things. I feel like there's so many options that I get to choose from. And that makes me feel really excited.
I feel more like there's a ton of different things that are possible rather than feeling like everything is impossible and I can't do it. And I should just give up and be a clam at the bottom of the ocean. Right. So we kind of want to make sure that we pay attention to the things that make us feel ready to write. And sometimes, like, I know some people like to mind maps, so they go, there's like different programs that you can use as some people just do them on paper, but they just make a mind map of like, this is what I'm excited about. This is what I want to talk about. This is these are the things that are cool. Like they, they write things down or they ended up talking to someone else about their ideas or they get into a place where they, this assignment that was weighing on them, they start working on it and they're like, oh, this is really fun.
I thought this would be really daunting. I thought it would be really horrible. This is really fun. And it's kind of the switch. If you kind of end up getting back into your writing work and you find that you're just like, oh my gosh, like this is too much, then you probably didn't take a long enough break. I know that there's been some people that like, don't really take that many vacations. Like it may be, they take like one whole week off a year or maybe two whole weeks off a year. And that's only 10 business days throughout the whole year. And they ended up trading that by working like four days a week. So they take three-day weekends. And sometimes that works for people. And sometimes it doesn't for me that doesn't work. I need like long periods of time, like at least a week where I can kind of decompress.
Like if I'm just taking three-day weekends, going back just doesn't work. It's just not enough time for me to kind of like settle. And there was this, this study that I read a while back that said like people need at least nine days to like remove their stuff from work. So like when they take a vacation, if your vacation is less than nine days, you don't actually decompress from all that stuff. You still have some of it in there. And I thought that was a really interesting study. So I always try to like follow that rule. I always try to follow that rule of like, Hey, if I'm going to take time off, I want it to be enough time for me to totally decompressive, that's possible. And sometimes what ends up happening is I'll take a week off. And then the following Monday or Tuesday, I'll just like, maybe check a few emails.
Like I won't go fully back into work mode. I'll just do a couple things. And I'll, you know, watch some movies or still kind of like take a half day. And that kind of helps me feel like I'm, I'm kind of like slowly moving back in. I'm not getting to this point where I'm like, okay, I have to rush back into all my projects. Like I shouldn't have taken time off. I have to rush back into it. Like that's no, that's not going to work. When we always feel the sense of urgency, when we have this like emergency mindset where everything feels like an emergency, then we can't really be the best writers. We can't really give them the best quality stuff. Cause we're always worried about the next day. We're not paying attention. We're not being in the present.
We're not solving that client's issues with our content right now. We're just like, and then what about this? And then what about this? And then we're just like cycling too far out. So I find that when we're kind of, you know, thinking about getting back into writing, it should feel exciting. You should feel this is my perspective. I think everybody needs to have their own way that they feel like they get back into the writing. But for me, like I just feel excited about it again. I feel like I have new ideas again. I feel like I'm hopeful for the future. I feel like there are lots of good things to come. I feel like there are ways to solve my problems now. I feel like there are steps I can take like clear things to do if it, if it happens again or steps that I can take to kind of be like, all right, I need a break.
What can I do? What kind of resources do I have? What kind of things do I know actually make me feel better. So I think when you're kind of putting all those things together and when you're paying attention, when you're like, oh my gosh, like my writing work is crushing me. I think you kind of have to pay attention to like signs your personal signs that are like, you need a break steps that you can take that really worked for you to make you feel better and then pay attention to like what it feels like or, or pay attention to what happens when you returned to your writing work and see how that kind of percolates and write that down. Like I've written a lot of these things down I've paid attention to them. So I know kind of what works for me. And that was after burning out, like after burning out, I was like, all of this, this is what's going wrong.
This is how I need to solve it. So it kind of helps me, you know, move forward. So that's, that's my spiel. I'm going to look, see if there's any questions. I don't see any questions. Okay, cool. We're going to end a little early today since I gotta hop off. But well I guess it's not early, it's 31 minutes. So if you have questions, pop them in the, in the comment section below, if you feel like this was helpful, give it a thumbs up. If you feel like you want to learn more about running a profitable, sustainable freelance writing business, make sure to subscribe. And if you have any steps or tips or things that you recognize, like put them in the comments, like I'm always looking for new ways to like, feel better about like getting back to my writing or new ways to get more rest or new ways to change up my schedule. So if you have suggestions or things that work for you, like pop those in the comments below, I'd love to hear them. So I hope this was helpful. Hope you have a great weekend and I will see you next Friday at 12:00 PM central time. Bye.
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