How To Get To Quitting The Day Job Faster

It’s the last day of the month, and for many people with day jobs, today or tomorrow is pay day.

Have you started your escape stash yet?

One of the most inspiring and liberating acts you can commit as an anchored author is to open a separate bank account specially marked for your escape stash. It’s a positive, active declaration that you intend to write full time one day, and that you’re going to put long term effort into making it pay off.

In fact, what you’re doing is putting your money where your mouth is.

When you walk out of the bank with that new account set up, or when you look at the account on-line, you will get a huge rush of adrenaline and a red-hot determination to make this work will build in you.

That’s upbeat energy you can put to good use.

Whenever you’re discouraged, or just don’t wanna write tonight, go look at your account. Figure out the distance between the current balance, and your top-out figure, and feel proud of the progress you’re visibly making towards getting to tell your boss to take a hike. Every day, you’re getting closer. Just like prolificacy is a numbers game, so is your escape stash. Little, consistent increments, over time, add up to huge impact.

If today is your pay day, then commit yourself to your dream.  Go open another bank account, and organize with your employer or your bank to automatically syphon off an affordable chunk of your salary every pay day, right into your escape stash. If you chose the amount wisely, you’ll never notice it has gone…but you will notice your growing escape stash.

First appeared on Anchored Authors, May 31, 2008

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Tracy Cooper-Posey © 2009. Cannot be copied or distributed without permission.