8 Working From Home Tips For Spiritual Writers
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Working from home on spiritual, inspirational, or intuitive writing? Looking for a few ideas to stay organized, inspired, and tackle a few of your writing projects every day?
Over time, I've learned a few different things that can promote the feeling of organization and productivity when you’re work working from home as a writer, so that easier to focus on the task at hand and get work done.
Some of these processes may be so unconventional that a only a few that only a few understand.
Over time, you'll see that most creative processes are, and that's just part of the mystery.
Everyone has their own way of getting into the zone of creativity. This is okay, if you do one or none that’s up to you.
With these eight tips below, my hope is that you take one, implement it, and after that, you are at least one step closer to reaching your goals, and one step closer to embracing your own mystery process.
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1. Check your dashboards
For the first hour of the day, check your dashboards.
This may be your accounts where you make earnings, your social media pages, or your news sources.
Think about it as though you are a bird going to the watering hole. There, you are getting a sense of the energy for the day.
It helps you tie up any loose ends and incoming energy pings, and may even give you some ideas on where the next most important writing topic will come from.
Running your numbers and checking your social media can provide you with inspiration and direction for your next post.
Or, check your mental dashboard.
Tackle one lingering bill, chore, or task, take something off the cache then get started. This act can promote feelings of self-worth and doneness when you choose one thing that's on your mental back burner and do it.
This clears up your mental space, so it's easier to flow with your art.
2. Make-ahead food and nourishment
When you are inspired to write, often you may find it's easy to get so entrenched in your work that you lose a sense of space and time.
This is good, it's a sign you're connected and living fully in the moment.
However, it also may mean some days you end up writing for way longer than you thought, or focusing on the task beyond regular human work times.
To keep your focus and fuel in the fire, think of the times of day when you are most apt to become carried away with your writing.
For some people, it's a particular day of the week, like on Sundays.
For others, they are more likely to get carried away first thing in the morning and forget to eat until three pm. Others completely miss dinner time.
Whatever that time is, make a few meals in the freezer in advance for it, so you can heat them up and keep going while staying nourished.
I usually find having something for dinner in the freezer made ahead, or something for breakfast, helps on days when getting carried away with the art.
I like the blogger Budget Bytes for advance meals, and Life in the Loft House for advance desserts, but many recipe sources are good.
3. Find your tempo and hold it
Music can be timed to the beat of one's heart.
In the symphony, ranges span the resting rate to the running rate. If you feel like you need more order to your writing, adjust the tempo of the music you listen to as you write.
You want your writing to be at a tempo you enjoy.
The Nova Scotia Symphony has a chart I find helpful for choosing your own pace for the day or for your piece. I also like classical instrumental tracks, and tune my energy to these, then I get started.
4. Surround yourself in serenity reminders
When you work from home as a spiritual writer, you get to choose your inspiration to some degree.
Organize your physical inspiration for your mind space with serenity-inducing words, colors for promoting peace and calm, such as greens and blues, relaxing music, or soft fabrics. Some people like incense.
Filling your home with reminders of serenity can help promote feelings of clarity and set reminders that life is in place, and this can go into your writing.
You may have more than one designated work spot.
You can decorate each of these with different colors and inspired ideas that will help you draw inspiration from unconventional wells of energy.
Some people need access to contrasting experiences to bring inspiration to their art.
If this is you, suggest others in your home bring in ideas that inspire them, tune into the news, or allow a robot to share its ideas - then begin.
5. Set up your day the night before
Projects at home or on the desk can create a feeling of back-up in the mental cache, which can block writing ideas.
Can you think of one task you need to do, but feel distracted by other things that are preventing you from doing it?
Take an hour tonight, right now, think of the three most essential writing projects of the day the evening before, and then focus on getting those done. Everything else that falls, falls after that.
6. Identify your maximum word limit
When I was growing up, I took a class on typing and another one on secretarial skills. In this class, I generated the ability to write very fast, but still, I have a word limit of the max number I can write per day.
Most days, this word limit is around 3,000 words or about three pieces of unique contributions to humankind.
You will have a word limit too, and you can find out your averages by checking your word count or writing inside a service that checks your word count.
Google Drive, for example, which is what many businesses use, has a word count checker.
This allows you to prioritize your talents.
If you know you need to get an important email out, you may do that first, before draining your limit on something due at the end of the month.
7. Set a target intent for each piece
Edgar Allen Poe once wrote an article called The Philosophy of Composition, where he discusses how important it is to set your intent for each piece you write. Set the intention in front of you, for you to see.
Anytime you write, you do need energetic focus. And you can hone this focus by calling in specific energy.
Write down the energy you want to channel or do a meditation ahead of writing on what the goal of today's pieces is.
Is it to be a gateway to hope? Is it to bring peace to those who are suffering? Is it to inspire joy?
Use crystals that represent those words and place them on your desk or sticky notes with that intent next to your writing space and this can help you stay focused on the goal, no matter what is swirling around you.
I like using this technique most when the world seems very chaotic.
You can also use this intent to reframe pieces you are revising to give it new energy or a unifying thread. Sometimes just placing a sticky note on the window frame beside your Typepad is all that is needed.
8. Tell others you live with when you are writing
Most of the people in our lives want to respect our art and not only that, they appreciate it too.
With all that said, the people you have called into your life are probably going to want to do their best to honor your creation time, when and if they know when it is.
Also, one of the most significant setbacks to at-home writers is interruptions.
So if you can tell others who have the power to interrupt you the most, when you are going into the focus zone, they'll usually let you alone and create.
Look back on the times of day when you felt most inspired to create, most of us have a peak time. Let others know when this is.
If they don't know when you are writing, they're more likely to ask you for your opinion on where to put the flower pots right in the middle of a thought sequence, than at any other time in the day.
The people we live with can feel when energy is at a peak.
In the crux of writing, when we are reaching a climax, others in the home may feel it and want to stop in to see what's going on. Still, if they know ahead of time, they're more likely to respect and honor the boundaries.
They will also be there to admire the finished piece.
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So to recap, my eight work from home tips for Spiritual Writers are
Check your dashboards
Make-ahead food and nourishment
Find your tempo and hold it
Surround yourself in serenity reminders
Set up your day the night before
Identify your maximum word limit
Set a target intent for each piece
Tell others you live with when you are writing
These are just a few of the things that can help you stay organized, get your projects in on time, and feel accomplished as you pursue a path in spiritual writing.
Finally, I feel most importantly, as a spiritual writer, it's essential to identify and embrace what goes into your creative process.
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work started as a blog, I feel going through it is really helpful in coming to terms with your own creative process and practices.
The sooner that you identify yourself with being a writer and step into it, the happier and more joyous the process of writing will become for you.
Take any one of these tips and see how they work for you. I feel having boundaries on your creative time is one of the most important, but you get to decide which is most important to you.
And sometimes, simply stepping outside, taking five deep breaths, can return you to feelings of ease, beauty, and grace and get you to a state of producing your next best piece.
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