design your life first
Here’s an idea from Stephen King’s On Writing that’s stuck with me for years:
Art doesn't inspire life.
Life inspires art.
Instead of work being your main focus and squeezing everything else around it we should do the opposite.
King reminds himself of this by keeping his writing desk small and in the corner of his office.
Instead of having a big desk right in the center.
He wants to remember that life inspires his writing and not vice versa.
In Free to Focus, Michael Hyatt says:
"Far too often we tailor our lives to our work, meaning we allow our work to sit in the middle of our schedules like a whale in a bathtub. Then we try to squeeze everything else in our lives around it...We should design our lives first and then tailor our work to meet our lifestyle objectives."
What lifestyle objectives do you have,
How could you tailor your work to meet your lifestyle goals?
What’s one thing you can do this week to make progress?
Feel free to answer these questions in your heart, on paper, or your phone.
Good Quote
“Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.”
— Stephen King, On Writing
Good Question
Move up the ladder to higher vibrations by writing at the top of a blank page and see what flows from your pen (no judgment or editing!):
How could you tailor your work to meet your lifestyle goals?
Good Thinking
I am kind to myself and make sure I have what I need in each moment.
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