Elizabeth Hanes 0:07
Welcome to another episode of The RN2writer Show. I'm your host, Elizabeth Hanes, RN, and today we're talking about the secret to finding time to write as a freelance nurse writer. See if this sounds familiar, you launched your freelance writing career, and then suddenly life intervened. weeks have gone by and you haven't been able to work on your business at all. How frustrating? You know, so many nurses asked me, How can I find the time to write? First know this. If you want to make money as a freelance writer, you need to devote time to connecting with editors, sending letters of introduction, and writing assignments. The fun part, right? That's what we all want to do. We're becoming writers because we want to write. But where do you find the time to do that in your busy day, when your life consists of nursing shifts, and kids activities are caring for your aging parents and doing the laundry and making sure you get to date night with your sweetheart? And walking the dog? And the list goes on. Right? How on earth can you possibly carve out time in all of that to also work on your writing business? Well, in today's episode, we're giving you the secret to finding time to working on your business as a freelance nurse writer. So you can start making money at this. Cut back on your patient care hours, if that's what you want. Not everyone does. And whatever your motivation is, is perfectly fine. And start living the peaceful and fulfilling life you deserve. So here are some truths of life. Gonna lay it on you. Everyone is short of time. And that especially includes nurses, we are so busy taking care of other people that we're even busier than the average person. But this applies to all aspects of life. This, how do I find the time business? For example, let me ask you this. How do you find time to do the laundry? Or how do you find the time to attend the kids sports activities? Or how do you find the time to read a good book or watch TV all evening? Well, here's the thing. We spend time on the things we value and therefore prioritize. We do the laundry because we value having clean clothes. So like it or not, we make sure the laundry gets done on a regular basis. We attend the kids sporting activities because we value the precious memories we're making with them. And because we know they won't be kids forever. We read good books or watch TV all evening. Because we value the creative escape, or the mental downtime, or both that those activities offer. So we prioritize them. Even if we don't think we are prioritizing them. Yes, we are because that's what we're spending our time on. So here's the secret to making time to work on your freelance business. You need to prioritize it. And the way to prioritize it is to attach value to the activity of working on your business. So ask yourself, Where does the value of freelance writing lie for you? Is it control over your schedule? Is it financial freedom is the value for you not having to deal with the office politics all the other people you work with? Only you can figure out the why for pursuing a freelance writing career because the why is different for everyone. Everyone does freelance writing for a different reason that confers value to them. And here's the magic. Once you figure out your why that is once you figure out the value of being a freelance writer for you, then you will prioritize your business and suddenly you will find the time to work on it it's crazy but I've seen it work 1000 times thanks for listening today and we'll see you again next time
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