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How To “Steal” Time For Creative Side Projects…
Even If You’re Raising Kids And Working A Full-Time Job
Raising kids and obsessing over productivity often seems like contradictory endeavors. Kids are always the first priority, and they eat up much of your free time. Every so often, you get a reprieve. The past few days our kids have been with their grandparents.
What do we do with all this free time? The answer shouldn’t come as a surprise; you can accomplish a lot. You can put down a new rug in your living room, have sex, go out for dinner and be home by 8:37 PM — enough time to watch something on Netflix.
This mini-vacation will come to an end, and we’ll shuffle back to our strategies for sneaking in time to get shit done. Working on creative side projects is especially challenging when you’re raising kids and working a full-time job. An extra five or ten minutes doesn’t cut it. You need a block of uninterrupted time.
In the past twelve months, I’ve completed a 129,000-word manuscript and published over two-hundred blog posts on Medium. These are the three strategies that helped me accomplish those goals.
Routine. Routine. Routine.
I wrote Routine three times because it’s so important. Our kids wake up early, usually around 7…
