Great advice for giving yourself the permission slip to say no to things that are weighing you down. Sometimes I think life does this for us. This summer I applied for an assistant principal position and didn’t get it, but it springboard me into carving out serious time for working on my novel. I was bummed at the time, but now I’ve realized it’s given me extra time and that time is a gift. I’m not going to squander it doing unnecessary extras. Time to enjoy life too.
I’ve started to cross off anything that feels too much right now as well.
Great advice for giving yourself the permission slip to say no to things that are weighing you down. Sometimes I think life does this for us. This summer I applied for an assistant principal position and didn’t get it, but it springboard me into carving out serious time for working on my novel. I was bummed at the time, but now I’ve realized it’s given me extra time and that time is a gift. I’m not going to squander it doing unnecessary extras. Time to enjoy life too.
I’ve started to cross off anything that feels too much right now as well.
Amen. Extra time is the biggest of blessings and in this case, it sounds like it propelled you fr forward on your writing journey!