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Stop, relax, breathe, look, see….feel

By Marsha Maung

August 29th, 2007

I get caught up all the time. I spin around in circles, then stop not knowing which way I am looking at. I try to focus and don't find one.

This is the everyday life of a freelance writer…well, maybe it's just me but except for the occasional ‘heck, I wanna do nothing' days (that don't come often enough), most of the time, I am consistently and desperately chasing one far gone deadline after nother. In chasing after monetary gains as a freelance writer, sometimes I lose focus. I forget the very reason why I am writing freelance.

The focus I am talking about here is the initial decision to make the blind leap of faith into the freelance writing world. Before I started freelancing as a writer, I held back because the realm of freelance writing was so uncertain. In my country, this ‘career' is even UNHEARD of. Freelance? ‘What's that?', they'd ask. That's like throwing yourself into the sea and hoping that a lost ship would come assailing and throw you a float!

The initial decision was made because of family and kids. Yes, as shitty as I am making myself sound, yes, I gave everything up for my then kid, now kids. And yet, in trying to make my freelance writing business work, I've forgotten the mission. The mission was to be present for my kids. To be there with them, play with them, care for them and love them with everything I have in me.

As I sat there in my little home office contemplating another freelance writing project and wonder if I have the time for it, I took a long serious look at what I am going to have to give up in order to take in the project. The kids. So, in short, the initial mission that was BIG before has to take the back seat, eh?

But nah….not so for me, I suddenly realized. There are smarter ways to go about dealing with this all-consuming freelance writing career of mine. I've worked at this one for close to a decade now and I am so damn proud of what I have achieved today and I have no intention of giving either my kids or my freelance writing career up.

Hence, it'll have to be ‘work smarter' then. Once in a while, I would have to remember to stop, relax, breathe, look, see….feel.

Note to self : Freelance writing business is important but maintain ultimate focus.

Marsha Maung is a Malaysian freelance writer who has been at it for the past eight years and counting. She writes web content for clients who want SEO services, provide blog content for business blogs and intends to do so for as long as she lives. So there! For more of this Malaysian freelance writer, visit her website at http://www.marshamaung.com