Writing as a Daily Priority
Joshua Fields MillburnTake a look at your day-to-day life.
Through the hustle and bustle of your daily grind, what banal, tedious, mundane tasks eat up most of your time? Checking email? Monkeying around on Facebook? Watching television? Filling out reports?
Whatever your answer, these activities are your true priorities.
You see, we often claim that our daily priorities are grandly important activities like spending time with family or exercising or carving out enough alone time to work on that novel we’ve always wanted to write—you know, the one we’ve been putting off for years. But unless you’re actually putting these pursuits first, unless you make these undertakings part of your everyday routine, they are not your actual priorities.
Your priorities are what you do each day, the small tasks that move forward the second and minute hands on the clock. These circadian endeavors are your musts. Everything else is simply a should.
Whenever you make writing a must, you’ll get it done. If it’s a should, you’ll do it only when it’s convenient Great creations aren’t ever birthed out of convenience.