Another risk that academic freelance writing brings with it is that there are no regular paychecks.
However, because time is so forgiving, I can start over each day, hoping to live it to the fullest and use all of its 24 hours in the best way possible.

Most of the time, the effects of outside interference can be mitigated with the same kind of overrun buffers used for dealing with inaccurate projections.
I got this amazing idea from a friend of mine, Lori Marrero, who wrote this amazing book called "The Clutter Diet".