How to tackle the Must + Now list:

success markers do not always have to yield a new physical object, so long as there is an identifiable outcome.

Passion for a practice or a subject comes from your investment of time and energy. Whatever your passion, it is a combination of what you’re into, and your circumstances, and what happens to fall across your path.

How can I weave my creative work into my day-to-day life in such a way that I’m fully engaged with it, so that I neither get scattered and lose

you’ve got to exercise conscious choice over what you’re going to devote all that energy to. You need to pull back and think about how this choice fits into your big picture.

Reset deadlines where possible.

Setting up a schedule ahead of time is about valuing yourself and your time, and choosing to use the time you have according to your priorities, not someone else’s. When you see that you actually can’t take such-and-such a project or task on, or it’ll throw your priorities for the week into chaos, it becomes a lot easier to say no.

Anything that is in both the Must + Now buckets, just do that stuff.

Creative work sometimes does not happen on a schedule—and you can’t make it. There are times you just have to accept that and make either the world, or your expectations, bend to that reality. You may not be able to actually complete five pages of comics in a week, no matter how essential you deem it. Particularly right out of the gate, you may not