How to Become a Successful Author While Working Full-time The Secret to Work-life Balance

Unsure how to hold a full-time day job, a second career as an author and have a life outside of working? This book provides not only the details on how to enact a plan that will help you achieve your goal as an author, but also gives you the tools to deal with the stress of juggling multiple jobs, making time for family/friends and committing to practicing self-care.Each chapter provides a roadmap on how to be successful by helping you define your goal, write a business plan, create a schedule, commit to yourself as well as how to prevent burnout and implement a marketing strategy for your book. Specific tips are given not only in marketing but also how to remain healthy in mind and body for the life of your career.Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Starting Out

Chatper 2: Defining Your Goal

Chapter 3: Creating a Schedule

Chapter 4: Commit to Yourself

Chapter 5: Juggling the Beast

Chapter 6: The Truth About Burnout

Chapter 7: Meltdown

Chapter 8: Finish What You Started

Chapter 9: Create Your Business Plan

Chapter 10: Launch Your Book

Chapter 11: Reassess Your Goals

Chapter 12: Dealing with Change

Chapter 13: Starting Over Again

Chapter 14: Are You Happy?

Chapter 15: In It for the Long Haul

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Schedule

Practical help to lower stress

Light visualization exercise

Creative board

Writing tips

Networking

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Research/learn

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