How to Focus without Willpower?

Engagement

  • Pleasure, The greatest reward
  • That’s your only objective.
  • That’s what will Jumpstart the process.
  • If you write for Pleasure, you will always return to the page.
  • Write 4 Words
  • 4 things you think about all the time.
  • 4 things you’re absorbed by.
  • What’s the 1st thing you think about in the morning?
  • What’s the last thing you think about in the evening?
  • Don’t like it?
    • Think about something else
    • Still not?
    • Switch
    • Not anymore?
    • Try again
  • There are no lower subjects.
  • There are no stupid subjects.
  • There are no boring subjects.
  • They can be as Mundane as you wish.
  • They can be as Extravagant as you wish.
  • They are your words.
  • Write your Words.
  • Speak your Words.
  • Writing for & with someone else
  • What are you looking for in Writing?
  • What is driving you forward?
  • Who can help you accelerate?
  • How can they catalyse your Stories?
  • What does these persons want?
  • Do they want to develop their skills?
  • Do they want to be granted recognition?
  • Do they want to start a project with you?
  • Do Your Best, For Yourself.
  • For your Co-Writers.
  • For your Team.
  • Focus onto Execution.
  • And People will come.
  • Action without motivation
  • Take a sheet of paper horizontally.
  • Write a word in the middle.
  • Or draw a picture.
    • A small Icon would do.
    • But you can be as detailed as you want.
  • Write 4 other Words around your central Word.
    • Write them in 4 different Colors.
  • Write 3 Words around each of these 4 Main Words.
  • Continue to write 3 Words around each small Word.
  • You can pursue until you are satisfied.
  • You can Add Main Words around the Central word.
  • You now have an Idea Board.

Making Habits Easy

  • Short
  • Always keep it short.
  • What is the longest amount of time you can dedicate to your craft today?
  • Cut it in half.
  • Do you have 20′ to spare.
  • Write during 10′.
  • What do you do with the other 10′.
  • You can write something else.
  • You can also draw the scene you just wrote.
  • You can compose a theme song for this scene.
  • Fast
  • Often move fast
  • You may need more time to Write certain scenes.
  • You may need to Draw slower to consider the flow of a scene.
  • Or to integrate details you didn’t plan beforehand.
  • Most of the time to want to be as fast as possible.
  • In the beginning the Results do not matter.
  • All that matter is the Process.
  • Focus on the process.
  • And repeat.
  • Fast.
  • Balanced
  • You want to start with something easy.
  • And you want to end with something easy.
  • You’ll reach your peek in the middle.
  • Progressively ascend this peek.
  • And progressively descend this peek.
  • This way you’ll have the right amount of difficulty every day.
  • That’s how most Stories work…
  • Here’s a weekly template which depicts this logic.

Procrastinating on the little things

  • 3 main Activities
  • List all the things you need to do.
  • What are the 3 Activities that would add the most value to your life if you execute them everyday?
  • How do they bring value to you?
  • How would you feel if you could only do only this?
  • What do these activities bring you?
  • How would you feel if someone was preventing you to do any of them during a day?
  • Can you feel how Fundamental they are?
  • Growing with your Co-writers
  • Always Propose.
  • Never Impose.
  • You will get more intense, more spontaneous responses.
  • Writing with a team may be the best way to skim what’s less necessary.
  • The group will always decide what’s the Essential.
  • It’s also 1 of the best way to organize & dispatch the tasks.
  • You’re always sure that someone is doing something.
  • Be knowledgeable about your Team mates Interests.
  • Be knowledgeable about their Time-wasters.
  • If you help them to focus they will help you to.
  • Skip anything that’s not vital
  • There is only your Pleasure.
  • Little else matters.
  • Some activities feel pleasurable.
  • But you realize quite quickly how useless they are.
  • That’s how short-term works.
  • And some short-term activities are Vital.
  • How can you manage short-term?
  • Of all these activities which ones are not Vital?
  • Which activities are not oriented to your Project or your Survival?
  • How do you identify these useless activities?
  • For each activity on your list, wonder.
  • Now I know the Result of this Activity, Would I do it again?
  • In the case of working on your Project the answer would be Yes.
  • Meaning that ought to continue on this Activity.
  • For any of these activities, if the answer should be No, then you can stop doing it.
  • Quit useless activities fast
  • Select 1 Activity you can easily abandon today.
  • Deliberately abandon it.

The Main Project

  • The Main Story
  • Take the aforementioned Idea Board.
  • Redraw it.
  • This time with 10 Words around your Central Idea.
  • These will be your 10 Main Ideas.
  • Write down 3 -6 Words around each of these 10 Main Ideas.
  • This Main Themes Board will become the Touchstone of all your Stories.
  • Designing Your Characters
  • What would you ideal characters look like?
  • On which Archetypes are they based?
  • Make up to 12 Characters you can reuse.
  • Give them each a Distinctive Quirk.
  • Your Side Project
  • Why have multiple Projects?
  • How much time do you have?
  • How many things do you want to do?
  • Factor these 2 together, and you’ve got your answer.
  • Limited Time
  • Having less time to create your next project will force better results.
  • Less time means less time to hesitate.
  • Think crucial features through & implement.
  • Between 90-120’/day for your main project.
  • Between 10-20’/day for a side project.
  • How much time should you spend on it?
  • 10-15′ a day is fine for a Starter or a Side project.
  • All your other Ideas
  • You may have many other Story Ideas.
  • Or just Ideas?
  • How to integrate them to your Stories.
  • Link them to Your Main Themes board.
  • Focus all these other Ideas around the Main Themes.
  • Link them to the Main Themes.
  • Having a Pocket Journal on you
  • You only need 2 things:
    • A 4-Colored Pen.
    • A 200 pages hardcover journal is enough.
  • Have it in your pocket.
  • Draw regularly, even if there’s no apparent story.
  • As new Stories come to you, draw them.

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