🕚 Creativity comes (nearly) last

Book of TREE 2.101

If you have a family and/or a job, you probably don’t get to wake up, do a perfect morning routine and then devote the peak part of your day to the creative project of your choice.

Fortunately, you don’t need to. You don’t have to 10x your life in 30 days or be [self-help guru of the month]. And if you try, you’ll likely make yourself miserable.

If you can set aside some time three or four days when you work on your creative thing, it’s enough. Even if it’s only 15 minutes after everyone is in bed. If you are really doing it for those 15 minutes, it’s enough.

One example: Stephen King wrote Carrie on evenings and weekends while he after worked as a high school English teacher.

Creativity doesn’t need to come first. It just needs to come before zoning out in front of a screen and it needs to happen consistently.

I’m guessing Baby Nova is a massive Lana Del Rey fan. This is not a bad thing.

Grow slowly
Jeff