Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (99U)

“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”

“It’s not about ideas, it’s about making ideas happen.”

Alas, when folks want to talk creativity, what they’re really seeking is help with execution, ways to take action more effectively.

These people sabotage themselves because the alternative is to put themselves into the world as someone who knows what they are doing.

Establish hard edges in your day.

The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when I do not feel like it, is very important. Because lots and lots of people are creative when they feel like it, but you are only going to become a professional if you do it when you don’t feel like it. And that emotional waiver is why this is your

the little things that suck away our potential to do

To break the cycle, keep a running list of

Otherwise you’re sacrificing your potential for the illusion of professionalism.