Following up on the last tip of create every day, I need you to take it a next step and put it on your calendar, figure out at least 30 minutes a day, where you are going to create I don't care if you're a student, if you're 90 years old, if you're retired if you have a full time job already, if you want to be productive in every other aspect of your life, then carve out at least 30 minutes a day and it doesn't have to be more than 30 minutes a day, but carve out 30 minutes a day, to be productive and to create something of value. quarter of a century ago I did that with my first book I just said I'm not going to stop until I write. At the time I was doing an hour a day just first thing and when I read an hour a day in the book was done and a month.

I've done that with many books. I do With blog posts, others just carve out at least a 30 minute block of time for you to be productive and create if you say, Oh, I'm too busy between committed and kids and job. There's something you can squeeze in it may be when you are on a bus or a train ride instead of reading the news, type on your cell phone, a blog post, a book, that novel you've been wanting to work on or whatever it is, use that time and make it a daily habit 30 minutes a day to create something that you value, maybe no one else values it maybe it's your own memoirs that no one's going to read. But by purposefully focusing on the act of creation for 30 minutes a day. You're going to hone your abilities of whether it's writing or whatever it is you're doing.

Making pottery and it's going to build a discipline in you. Plus, it's going to give you the confidence when you see you can complete tasks. It's virtually impossible to write a great novel or even a non horrible novel and a weekend. But 30 minutes a day, after six months, you may have something you may have a great work of nonfiction. You may have five great paintings, whatever it is that you care about producing. You can make huge progress if you just focus at least 30 minutes a day even if you have a full time job and a long commute.