# keep going ## 10 ways to stay creative in good times and bad **by austin kleon** [website](https://austinkleon.com/keepgoing/) [[! creative process]] --- ## 1 - every day is groundhog day. ### - take one day at a time. > None of us know what will happen. Don't spend time worrying about it. Make the most beautiful thing you can. Try to do that every day. That's it. > **--- Laurie Anderson** ### - establish a daily routine ### - make lists ### - finish each day and be done with it --- ## 2 - build a bliss station. ### disconnect from the world to connect with yourself silence and solitude are crucial to creativity. need a place or time to be alone for creative [[80 random stuff/80.81 concepts/incubation]]. can have either place _or_ time, but cool if you can have both - reminds me of John Cleese talking about needing the same thing. he said you need an oasis of time and place. _insert link here_ make a daily appointment to disconnect. ### you can be woke without waking to the news don't reach for tech in the morning, that's fertile creative time limit news intake. focus on your inner world ### airplane mode can be a way of life > The phone gives us a lot but it takes away three key elements of discovery: loneliness, uncertainty, and boredom. Those have always been where creative ideas come from. **— Lynda Barry** because of limits, airplanes are good places to work. you are trapped in a place and time with limited tech. can replicate that on the ground. use captive time to create. - reminds me of the director Mark Borchardt in [American Movie](http://www.americanmovie.com/home.html) who goes to the airport parking lot to write. put yourself in a captive place to get things done. > Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes -- including you. **--- Anne Lamott** ### learn how to say no. say no often if it doesn't align so you can say yes to your art and sanity. FOMO fear of missing out; antidote is JOMO joy of missing out. --- ## 3 - forget about the noun, do the verb. notes --- ## 4 - make gifts. notes --- ## 5 - the ordinary + extra attention = the extraordinary. notes --- ## 6 - slay the art monsters. notes --- ## 7 - you are allowed to change your mind. notes --- ## 8 - when in doubt, tidy up. notes --- ## 9 - demons hate fresh air. notes --- ## 10 - plant your garden. notes