Melissa Wiley

Because you have shielded your writing time, you just need to sit down and open a new document. All of the mental energy you would have used to figure out when and where to write can be saved for the actual writing.

Each of us has that do-nothing, watch-a-little-more-television place in our heart and that think-intensely and work-well place, but the latter is harder to engage. The life of your productive obsession depends on your constant recommitment to your ideals, intentions, and efforts.

You do not want to go too long without a productive obsession in place, since that will mean that you won’t really be thinking.

When, by contrast, you announce that you intend to productively obsess about the challenge at hand, your brain is alerted to the fact that you intend to operate differently. Your neurons stand at attention, and thinking commences.

Make a list of the things you will never do in your writing space. Keep that list handy, right beside your computer. 2. Make a list of the things you will only occasionally do in your writing space. Keep that list handy, right beside your computer.

through curiosity can reveal people to themselves. But formal education largely remains a vocational enterprise in which, Sir Ken argues, we are being steered away from the things we love “on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that.” Love has been rationalized out of the system of education, but it is central to the deeply personal

Sometimes the source of frustration is external; sometimes it’s internal. The specifics change, but there will always be something.

I bet you wish there was a magic wand to fix things for you...

"Magic is using energy to intentionally

transform and affect outcomes."

I learned this from an author I support on Patreon (Rachael Herron) and then checked it