Henry Miller’s Rules for a Productive Workflow
Slightly stolen from Henry Miller‘s rules of writing, I use them to guide my day-to-day working:
- Work on one thing at a time until finished.
- Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, and recklessly on the task in hand.
- Work according to program and not according to mood; stop at the appointed time.
- Cement a little everyday, don’t add new fertilizer.
- When you can’t create, you can work.
- Keep human! See people, go places, travel somewhere.
- Work with pleasure only.
- Discard the program if needed — but — go back to it next day.
- Concencrate. Narrow Down. Exclude.
- Work first and foremost. Friends and fun come after.
What do you use to keep yourself on task (add yours to the comments below)?