1. Once you lie down to nap, even for just

up to half an hour, you may easily

oversleep and not wake up to your alarm

clock. Before lying down, sit up in bed and

try to keep your sleep time between two and

ten minutes.

 

2. Try to avoid lying down for a nap after

4:00 PM local time. If you go to bed for a

nap after this time, you’re likely to oversleep

and sleep at least an hour and a half – this

in turn can make you drowsier and more

tired.

 

3. If you have trouble fighting the tendency

to keep falling back into bed for more nap

time, get up and have at least 20 sips of cold

water then walk around for a few minutes. If

this doesn’t do the trick, sit on a chair and

sleep for up to 10 minutes – that should get

you up for good.

 

4. If you think you simply can’t afford to

lie down to sleep on any given afternoon or

early evening, put items such as a jacket,

backpack and shoe box on your pillow and

in the middle of your bed, then keep them

there. If you remove them, you’re giving in

and asking for it in regard to lying down

and over-napping.

 

5. This component of 19 easy ways to

create author time is to refuse to lie down

when you start feeling drowsy before it’s

time to go to bed, especially if you must go

to work in the morning, in which case

going to bed prematurely may rob you of

too much writing time. The more sleep you

have just had over the last several hours or

the last few days and the more

emphatically you say no to overrule your

body trying to make you go to bed now, the

more likely you are to be victorious.

 

6. Stand up some during your computer

sessions, especially at night when you’re more

prone to doze off while sitting at your

computer station.

• I make sure to stand up for about five to

seven minutes frequently, especially if I

had an unproductive night the previous

night.

• Setting a timer next to your computer

every 10 minutes or so can also help you

in the event you fall asleep.

• Snacking on something like almonds

can help keep you awake while you’re on

the computer.

 

7. If you like to snack while cooking meals,

limit much of that to taking a few bites in

between stirs. If you must wait a few

minutes to stir what’s in your pan/pot/skillet

and you already have everything you planned

to fix for the meal heating up, you have

nothing to lose time-wise by munching on

something such as nuts or shredded cheese.

 

8. If you like to eat something such as

salsa that you may freeze before preparing

your meal, double check to make sure it’s

not still in the freezer a few hours before

you start cooking.

• This may make all the difference for

enabling you to avoid going to bed for the

night prematurely and thus not getting all

your writing and other work done before

walking out the door the next day at your

preferred time.

• Let me clarify by stating that I once had a

cooking experience in which if I had my

salsa ready to eat for a few minutes before

it was time to begin meal prep, I probably

would have been too absorbed in what I

was doing for my body to conquer me into

forcing me to go to bed sooner than I

planned.

 

9. Once you’re very familiar with your

recipe for a particular dish, you only need

to look at it toward the end of your

preparation stage to make sure you put in

all necessary ingredients. Stopping to look

at your recipe frequently can cost you

about five minutes of time.

 

10. If an item you’re slicing over your dish

is messy such as a red beet, wipe off your

knife and the hand you’re using to hold the

item as you go, so you have more ease

pushing off slices that hang onto your knife

and so that the item you’re still cutting up

doesn’t fall into your dish. If you can’t

efficiently slice the beet over your pot and

you’re afraid you may cut yourself on any

given day, start chopping up the beet on a

cutting board.

 

11. The 11th step of 19 easy ways to create

author time is to unsubscribe from emails

which don’t usually provide helpful

content and those which feature large

popup boxes which block your view of

content you want to read and don’t give

you the option of closing them out or

moving them out of the way.

 

12. If you choose to lightly cook blueberries

and carrot slices for your dog, separate these

from what you’re cooking for yourself, so you

don’t spend many minutes trying to fish out

these items from your cookware.

 

13. Take meats and any fresh vegetables

you choose to freeze such as leafy greens,

radishes and zucchini that’s for tonight’s

dinner plus any food you have frozen for

your dog out of the freezer at least a few

hours before you plan to cook so you

don’t waste at least 10 minutes defrosting

this stuff in the microwave before

preparing your meal or serving your dog

supper. Double check to make sure you

have taken out everything you need.

 

14. Whenever you’re in the middle of

writing a book, try to spend at least 10

minutes adding to your book at the

beginning of your first computer session

daily. If you spend too much time looking

at email, surfing, doing paid surveys and

other things during your first one or two

sessions, you will likely go to bed without

having done any writing, especially if you

must go to work upon waking up.

 

15. If you have a less than fully

house-trained dog consistently hovering

or pacing around you, let or take it

outside now and wait for it to potty,

which shouldn’t take more than a few

minutes. This will save you time from

having to constantly watch your dog to

make sure he doesn’t potty in the house

or having to let her urinate in the house

then change her dog pee pads and clean

the floor where she relieved herself with

Pine-Sol.

 

16. Stand up while you’re thinking of

what to write when working on your books,

letters and email submissions. You may be

surprised how easily it is to fall asleep and

sleep up to an hour while gathering your

thoughts at your computer.

 

17. If you plan to bake something such as

a pot pie whose baking time is about an

hour, immediately put this in the oven for

your supper upon arriving home from work

then do all you need to do while baking

your item then letting it cool for up to 25

minutes. You’ll surely avoid napping to

prevent a catastrophe in the event your dish

was to burn and you were too sleepy to wake

up to your smoke detector going off.

 

18. Follow the 20-20 rule. Looking at

objects located 20 feet away from your

computer every 20 minutes can help

reduce drowsiness by easing the strain

on your eyes that comes from the light

your computer emits.

 

19. If you’ve been coughing or sneezing a

lot or your nose has run a lot for more than

a day, strongly consider buying Mucinex

from a nearby Dollar General store. The

more time you spend covering your mouth

or nose and blowing your nose, the more

time you lose to work on your books.

 

Heeding the instruction on 19 easy ways to

create author time you received from this

post should strongly help you create more

author time through simpler everyday

habits. Though I have a long way to go in

consistently doing everything I just

covered and adhering to my own advice

on 19 easy ways to create author time, I

have made decent inroads in giving myself

more time to work on my books.

 

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