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and beginning new projects.

5. Reward your self-discipline the way dieters celebrate their success. To loose weight is an enormously focused task for some. Learn from their self-discipline and their ways of congratulating their victory. After a full week of remaining writing task focused and committed to your employment, compensate your ethic by indulging in workplace relief. My favorite way to do this is to spend time researching areas of difference, areas that fall outside my expertise but are within my ability to learn. I yearn to write about travel, so I read Google articles, blogs and "how-to" commentaries about holiday spots. This reward stimulates my focus and spurs me on to finish existing projects so that I can submit writing around physical journeys of traveling pleasure.

6. Establish an end-of workday routine to prevent against burnout. Just as leaving external employment involves a ritual of leaving for the day and coming home, so too does freelance writing. The ritual may be as small as lighting a candle or as elaborate as walking out the front door, around the side of your house, and re-entering through the back door.

Freelance writers need self-discipline because our job is one of constant research and word construction. Bombarded with everyday life opportunities to reframe as research and practice, the risk of being side tracked from the employment of writing is high. Risk management around these delightfully opportune windows of writing research requires self-discipline unknown to few other home based businesses.

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