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Balance is one of the keys to improving your writing
excellence.
I remember way back when in the days I was first starting my life coaching practice more than twelve years ago I spent nearly all my time either on the computer doing marketing and internet networking or working with clients and developing products.
I enjoyed it a lot, but after a while I realized sitting behind a keyboard was not the be-all, end-all of life.
I had left a county job because I wanted to be more flexible, creative and fun, so this almost pure keyboard life wasn’t working out the way I had hoped things would work out.
I started simply, walking my dogs every day and writing morning pages – journaling daily for three pages, usually longhand. When I got up to walk my dogs, not only was I getting exercise, I was purposefully giving space for other insights to pour through me from other sources beyond the computer and the internet.
My dogs were happier, I was happier and my writing took on a different flavor and texture.
I would start my day at the kitchen table rather than the keyboard.
There I would look out the window and write three pages in my college ruled notebook. I didn’t know if it would work, but ten years later it is still working! I found myself becoming spontaneously more creative not only in writing, but in other ways. Those three pages gave me a place to throw figurative spaghetti against the wall.
I had a space to complain – something I never did in my writing as a Life Coach because I thought I had to be perfect in that arena, or at least appear to have it all together.
I had a space to practice with words, to play with words, to remember my ridiculous passion and love for words.
- How balanced is your life between your online work and your offline living?
- Are you willing to make your writing (and work life) improve by leaps and bounds?
- What have you noticed is “missing” from your life lately?
Start a list of simple, ordinary things you would like to experience more. No, this is not the place for your life list of climbing Mt. Everest, but it could be, “Take a daily ten minute walk five days a week,” or “Hand write one thank you note each week,” or “Try a new coffee place this month,” or one of my long-term favorite goals, “Have a lunch date with a friend at least once a week.”
Before you go into panic mode about what you can’t do because it will make your business flounder, please please please at least try on the concept that you will actually get more work done when you don’t inundate yourself with work, work, work even if you love it! One economic term I remember and refer back to is the Law of Diminishing Returns – which basically means you get fewer results the longer you spend on something once you have reached your peak productivity.
Remember: Balance is one of the keys to improving your
writing (+ business + life) excellence.
This post is Number two of 30 and was inspired by the Ultimate Blog Challenge. Throughout the month I will be posting writing tips especially to make your writing (and your writing experience!) better.
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