Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind

by Jocelyn K. Glei

The strategy is to have a practice, and what it means to have a practice is to regularly and reliably do the work in a habitual way.

being creative means that you have to sell your ideas.

Even a small time set aside for solitude each day—from twenty minutes to an hour—can make an enormous difference.

Creative minds are highly susceptible to distraction,

FOCUS WHEN YOU’RE FRESH Tackle the projects that require “hard focus” early in your day. Self-control—and our ability to resist distractions—declines as the day goes on.

GIVE YOUR BRAIN A BREAK Alternate challenging creative work with more “mindless” tasks to give your brain time to rest and refuel.