What is the one thing that most interferes with your managing to spend enough time writing?
(Think of this before reading further.)
At the ad agency Grey New York, the boss started the Thursday morning No-Meeting Zone from 9am to noon. One of the people working there, Gina Sclafani, says, "This is officially sanctioned time for us to expand our minds and devote time to ideas that kept getting pushed to the side, using whatever methods worked for us. And not just for the writers and art directors. This was a never-before-seen, agency-wide missive."
Her article is about the creative benefits of moving out of your comfort zone, but at the moment i'm nore interested in that three hour exclusion zone.
Could you schedule a similar zone during which you banish the thing that most gets in your way? Three hours during which you will not:
* check your email
* go onto Facebook, Twitter, or other social media sites
* watch TV
* or whatever else is your biggest source of distraction
Give it a try. If three hours is too much, start with one. Then expand the number of days and, if possible, the number of hours.
(Want more time tips? See my book FOCUS: use the power of targeted thinking to get more done. You can get it from Amazon or your other favorite bookseller.)
