If you can use the disruption that you are experiencing to create new positive habits. Great. Go for it. Wake up at 4:30 every morning, do your yoga, eat your almond milk muesli, and crack out a relaxing 1000 words before most people are out bed. If on the other hand, you are distracted by constantly changing rules, responsibilities, and exponential graphs, maybe give yourself a break.
Read MoreYour brain is way smarter than you.
It can predict all sorts of complex motions. You can complete familiar tasks with your eyes closed. You can get something done without even noticing. If you learn to juggle you don’t even have to look at your hands. It just happens.
Read MoreThe best part about a commitment to a challenge is that it gives you a reason to do it anyway.
Blogging every day is an easier habit to stick to than blogging once a week because you can’t say “i’ll do it tomorrow” over and over until the last day and then miss your target. You simply do it anyway.
Read MoreSo you start with an idea, and you think it might be a great idea. Maybe it’s the idea for your bestselling novel that you haven’t written or for the app that you haven’t made that will change the world. You build on this idea in your head and it becomes more and more complex. Soon you are sure It’s your best ever idea idea, but you realize that any work that you do to try to get it out into the real world cannot possibly live up to the idea in your head.
Read MoreThe timer gives a deadline. It lets you know that now is the time to start. It lets you know how much time you have left. It gives you a chance to stop and evaluate the completeness or incompleteness of your work. Like practicing music with a metronome, it helps provide a rhythm.
Read MoreWhen you are creating an animation, you can either create the animation “straight ahead” or “pose to pose”. In straight ahead animation you start with a frame and draw frames sequentially until you have created the animation. With “pose to pose” you create Keyframes of important points in the animation. You draw these first and then draw the in-between frames.
Read MoreWithin 20 minutes of coming up with this idea for a blog post while cooking my lunch, I listened to an episode of Seth Godin’s podcast Akimbo and he brought up the idea of mise-en-place as an example of how to use placebos on yourself.
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