The trick to becoming creatively successful is to ignore distractions and develop a routine that determines your day.
This could be by devoting several hours to a creative endeavour or just an hour.
But the key is that it is a routine and it is every single day. No day can be skipped.
Once a crack appears in a routine, the routine itself falls apart.
It is all too easy to allow distractions to determine one’s schedule instead of dismissing them altogether.
Throughout history, the great writers, artists and musicians also suffered from the temptation of distraction, but they still found a way to devote a slice of their day to creative output.
This slice was critical to their success. In some cases it may have been the smallest part of their day, but it still determined their life.
For anyone to find the success they crave, they must structure their day into a daily routine, as all of the famous creative people have done so for centuries.
Each of these creatives developed a pattern of daily routine. One that served them well in the pursuit of their creative endeavours. For some, it does not mean the creative section of their day is the longest. But they do so much to fuel that creativity through the day, that when it comes to the time allocated for creative ventures, they are primed to be productive.
A daily routine for a creative needs to have other daily practices that serve the daily creativity. Forcing the creative part of the day can often be counter-productive. The key is to build towards it.
To harness the mind for the creativity on the horizon.
As the times have evolved, there are even Apps today built specifically to mediate and relax either side of a creative chunk of one’s day. For the creativity to reach its zenith, the mind has to be ready for it. One has to train the mind to literally be in the right frame of mind every single time the creative slot of one’s day arrives.
The daily routine matters. It is the key to every creative success.