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

you want to create something worthwhile with your life, you need to draw a line between the world’s demands and your own ambitions

Progress is reassuring and inspiring; panic and then despair set in when you find yourself getting nothing done day after day

hen you work regularly, inspiration strikes regularly.

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules

Notice when you seem to have the most energy during the day, and dedicate those valuable periods to your most important creative work. Never book a meeting during this time if you can help it. And don’t waste any of it on administrative work!

Paradoxically, you hold both the problem and the solution to your day-to-day challenges. No matter where you work or what horrible top-down systems plague your work, your mind and energy are yours and yours alone. You can surrender your day-to-day and the potential of your work to the burdens that surround you. Or, you can audit the way you work and own the responsibility of fixing it

While no workplace is perfect, it turns out that our gravest challenges are a lot more primal and personal.

Genius is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent perspiration.”

My mantra has always been, “It’s not about ideas, it’s about making ideas happen.”

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