It Just Proves There’s No Point In Worrying

Because life rarely turns out how you’d expect

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I had spent months worrying about it and it deeply affected my mental health.

It was about book-launch versus day-job.

For months I went around the conundrum of whether to take a break from my job to launch my debut novel.

I had a deep urge to spend a few weeks giving my all to the launch so that I could give the book its best chance possible. But at the same time, I didn’t want to jeopardise a lucrative income-stream and the flexible part-time arrangement that I have with my client.

See-sawing between “being sensible” and “listening to my heart” took its toll.

I work as an independent consultant and there had been a change in the tax law, due to go into effect in April, which was going to materially affect my relationship with my client. I was going to have to renegotiate my terms anyway so I had this idea that I could ask to delay our new arrangement until early July, and take a few weeks to focus solely on my writing and the launch.

After much deliberation I plucked up the courage to ask for this break. I have a wonderful manager who is very supportive of my writing. At the beginning of March it was confirmed that I could take a break…