A New Spin on Discipline
If you are like most people you probably wish you could be more disciplined. It is a natural assumption that more discipline leads to better time management and improved productivity, but let me tell you why this isn’t necessarily the case. A while back I had a chance encounter with a spiritual master who […]
The Benefits of Deep Work and How to Establish It
After stumbling across an interesting article entitled “Why Deep Work Matters in a Distracted World” I found myself cataloguing just how much time is lost to shallow work (read more here). By shallow work, I mean doing work (in my case writing), while: People are present I’m listening to music I have multiple projects open at […]
Too Late To Make New Year Resolutions?
So how are those New Year Resolutions going? I’m not really a huge fan. You know how it goes: you start off so well, dead keen, then three days in and you’ve missed a few… before you know it, you’re writing the whole year off as a failure. But perhaps there are some resolutions […]
What’s Your Excuse? – A Writer’s Daily Fight Against Procrastination
We writers turn procrastination into an art form: ‘I just need to do this first…’ Procrastination takes many guises. Here are a few that may sound familiar: I can’t write in all this clutter Clutter can be physical and/or psychological. It may feel like it is impossible to write if your desk is untidy. Your […]
