A doable thing that doubles an excuse to remind you of my favorite thing: read more.
Pick up a book this month and you’ll be in great company; Elon Musk, Sheryl Sandberg, and LeBron James are all voracious readers.
A daily doable thing: write morning pages.
This daily practice comes from Julia Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way, and its benefits are many. Morning pages is a practice that artists, writers and thinkers use to 1) start the day producing and…
A doable thing you’re already doing: sleep more.
A doable jolt of creativity: draw some circles.
This doable thing is an exercise designed by researcher Bob McKim.
Step 1: Draw 30 circles.Step 2: Set a timer for 3 minutes.Step 3: Adapt as many of your circles as you can…
A doable way to be more creative: be curious.
I love how Elizabeth Gilbert thinks about this one: “Grow your curiosity. You can’t control creativity, but you can control curiosity.”
A very very doable thing: take a walk.
You’ll be in good company; Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Leo Tolstoy, Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Isaac Asmiov, Einstein, Beethoven, Charles Dickens, John Muir, and Steve Jobs all took regular walks to clear their minds or…
A doable thing: Find a space.
The Masters of Scale podcast is a great way to learn from creative people in business (full disclosure: I work on the show!). A recent episode features the incredibly resilient founder of Spanx Sara Blakely. In discussing…
A doable thing: Get some feedback.
Evernote’s podcast has a good episode about the importance of getting feedback on your work. Even the team at Ben & Jerry’s uses surveys to figure out which new flavors of ice cream to invent. (If the ice cream…
A doable thing from writer Jack London: Keep a notebook.
“Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up into your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter, and lead…
Don’t worry, you can still eat ice cream with this doable thing: Refine your media diet.
You already have a media diet. It’s comprised of your Twitter feed, Netflix binges, news alerts, Instagram stories, Medium articles… We consume a lot, and usually on…
