Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build your Routine, Find your Focus and Sharpen your Creative Mind- Chapter One- Honing Your Creative Practice

Chapter one- Building a rock-solid routine- How to give structure, rhythm and purpose to your daily work.

A famous quote once said;

"You can't TRY 

to do things,

you must simply

 DO them."

-Ray Bradbury

Honing Your Creative Practice

Regularly and reliably do the work in a habitual way. Work in 'your place', work clothes- this professionalizes your work. Self praise of your work is difficult as we tend to feel we are inadequate. Sometimes we work hard in the short term but still fail to achieve our big-picture goals.

"These people sabotage themselves because the alternative is to put themselves into the world as someone who knows what they are doing. They are afraid that if they do that, they will be seen as a fraud. It’s incredibly difficult to stand up at a board meeting or a conference or just in front of your peers and say, “I know how to do this. Here is my work. It took me a year. It’s great.” 

This is hard to do for two reasons: (1) it opens you to criticism, and (2) it puts you into the world as someone who knows what you are doing, which means tomorrow you also have to know what you are doing, and you have just signed up for a lifetime of knowing what you are doing. It’s much easier to whine and sabotage yourself and blame the client, the system, and the economy. This is what you hide from—the noise in your head that says you are not good enough, that says it is not perfect, that says it could have been better. " -Seth Godin