Have you ever had a big important project to do, but you just
didn't have enough time? And even if you did have enough time, you
immediately notice that you have far too many distractions in your daily
life to get anything done. Well, if this has been a challenge for you, I
have one potential solution I'd like to recommend, and although it
won't work for everyone, it could perhaps work for you. It involves
modifying your sleep schedule. Okay so, let's talk about this for a
second, shall we?
Here's how the plan works. First, you get working on your project, and try to ditch as much of the external nonsense as you can, for instance don't watch TV for more than 15 minutes every three hours, don't return e-mails, or text messages more than 15 minutes every three hours. And don't stop for food more than 15 minutes every three hours. The rest of the time concentrate on solid working, and set yourself a plan of attack.
Next, try to work for more hours than normal, and work later and stay up later than you normally would. Perhaps you might work until one or two in the morning, and then go to sleep. The next day, get up an hour or two late and work tell sunrise the next day. Continue to do this modifying your schedule and letting it move around the clock. Indeed this will mean that you will go to bed at a different time each day, and wake up at a different time each day. And as you do this you will add a few hours to the number of waking hours that you normally would. Now your work days become super workdays, and you are off cycle from everyone else.
This means in the middle of the night when there are no distractions, you are working away at full pace, and since your schedule is no longer that of the rest of the world, you won't be bothered by their incessant bombardment on your personal time and space. This will free up an abundance of extra time to do your project. It will give you time to think, and produce great work.
You'd be surprised how many artists do this, and I never really understood that, until I started working on my own very large solo projects, and allowed my sleeping cycles to float around the clock without regard to whatever the rest of the world was doing, that is assuming the rest of the world is doing anything anyway, as most of it as you know it is just sound and fury. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on.
Here's how the plan works. First, you get working on your project, and try to ditch as much of the external nonsense as you can, for instance don't watch TV for more than 15 minutes every three hours, don't return e-mails, or text messages more than 15 minutes every three hours. And don't stop for food more than 15 minutes every three hours. The rest of the time concentrate on solid working, and set yourself a plan of attack.
Next, try to work for more hours than normal, and work later and stay up later than you normally would. Perhaps you might work until one or two in the morning, and then go to sleep. The next day, get up an hour or two late and work tell sunrise the next day. Continue to do this modifying your schedule and letting it move around the clock. Indeed this will mean that you will go to bed at a different time each day, and wake up at a different time each day. And as you do this you will add a few hours to the number of waking hours that you normally would. Now your work days become super workdays, and you are off cycle from everyone else.
This means in the middle of the night when there are no distractions, you are working away at full pace, and since your schedule is no longer that of the rest of the world, you won't be bothered by their incessant bombardment on your personal time and space. This will free up an abundance of extra time to do your project. It will give you time to think, and produce great work.
You'd be surprised how many artists do this, and I never really understood that, until I started working on my own very large solo projects, and allowed my sleeping cycles to float around the clock without regard to whatever the rest of the world was doing, that is assuming the rest of the world is doing anything anyway, as most of it as you know it is just sound and fury. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Bettering Self Concepts. Lance
Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net
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