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Writers are a unique profession where the goal is not to have a job but rather to create a lifestyle where one can work and earn simply by being who they are. Lifestyle is one of those rare words that can take on a different meaning for every person who speaks it. As varied as the life of an individuals is, their actual style varies even more so. Compound the two words into lifestyle, and one has endless possibilities. As a writer creating your own life, one has endless writing-lifestyle possibilities.

The word "lifestyle" is not an action verb; rather it is a noun meaning a particular attitude or habit. It isn't about what you do, but rather it is about who you are. Lifestyle is about a way of life. One of my credos has been to strive for my knowing that I am in my writing lifestyle when I am in a place in my day to day where, "Who I am is what I do, and what I do I who I am."

For me the writer's lifestyle allows me be both who I am and what I do. When the two are one in the same then my lifestyle becomes a noun meaning habit, in a good way. My day to day goings on, my freelance writing, and my day-job as an antique store owner of a themed around the ink-world shop where I work in and write from daily, are all about being a writer. I surround my writing spirit with things I am passionate about and in turn the things that energize my work as a writer. All I take on, all I create, all I do to earn my living became about words on a page and a lifestyle of creating a self-driven career that to me means creative balance.

Creating my own life as a writer wasn't always in such harmony and in the big picture it has really only been in the past few years where it all finally started to come together and mesh into one true calming lifestyle where what I do finally fits who I am. I climbed up through two completely different career paths in my life in the draining corporate world. Never satisfied and neither career path feeding my creative soul or bringing me a writer's lifestyle. It was when I changed the vision and kept it front and centre that I changed my lifestyle. If the vision is clear the journey will take one to it. I know this to be true because I am on that very self-journey.

All things in my hectic full day to day are making way for my writing lifestyle because I am clearer each day on that vision of my writing life and that it is where I am most productive, most content and most at one. When "who I am is what I do", then I am where I am supposed to be, doing what I am supposed to be doing. For me that is my writing lifestyle.

Create a place in your life where you can write daily, and work towards achieving your rewarding writer's lifestyle.

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