First, have a day job.
Don't just get any day job where you can show up at 9 am and leave by 5 pm, work 5 days a week and go home to have all the other hours of the day to yourself and your family. No!
Get yourself a day job that that respects your ability to get the job done, at whatever hours you need to do it. Make sure this is a job that really has a lot of work to do, and it gets really bottle-necked a couple of times a year so that you have about an hour and a half to yourself each day to eat, shower, wind down and get to bed before you start it all over again the next day. For weeks on end.
Then, make sure you work for two different departments so that those bottle-necks overlap each other, so in effect you get to have 4 or more each year, while everyone else has the typical boring two.
Next, make sure you register for those last 2 classes you need to get your license, and give yourself a really tight timeline because you want this stuff DONE within the bare minimum 8 weeks that you are allowed to finished the coursework and exams.
Make sure you are taking your turn to take the kids to sport practices, meets, races, swimming lessons, etc. and don't forget the grocery shopping!
All set? Great. Now decide you need to start a hobby: something you really want to do but will have to squeeze time in to do it because you are so booked. Write!
That's it. Mix well, then simmer for about a few months.
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