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How to Maintain a Blog AND a Full-Time Job.

If you’re like me, you can’t spend every waking moment of every day writing, editing, polishing, Tweeting, and enjoying the fruits of your hard work.
You have a life.
For me, that looks like a steady 9-5 job, during which I work on other stuff–my blog, writing, and life must take a back seat if I want to take home a paycheck.
So how can you maintain both? Losing sanity, to me, is not acceptable–I don’t want to pull my hair out trying to get everything done at once. And I really don’t want to lose any sleep–I’m a sleepaholic.
I’ve found that the best way to maintain an active lifestyle and steady job, while still consistently push out great content, is to plan better.
Specifically, planning the parts of the day that most people forget about.
Instead of:
Wake up at 6.
Go to work at 8.
Work until lunch. Take a one-hour break.