While many productivity experts talk about eliminating ‘playful’ activity I think it’s actually important to spend time each day doing activity that is a little mindless and fun.

To eliminate guilt from playing have a look at The Now Habit from Neil Fiore.

GTD etc. are really good books – technically spoken. Now Habit goes way beyond that, it connects with the feelings and the emotions.

We all have our wants, must, shoulds, wishes, aims, fears etc., our daily needs and constraints – and then this book tells you something like that: Play harder in order to work more productivly – instead of working more and longer hours. Commit yourself to play and recreation no matter what circumstances you are and you will endure almost any work and chores. That’s what it is mainly about. I learnt a lot from the book’s insights.

Kind regards,

René

I too write best in the morning but often don’t have time as I workout in the am and then head to work. What I do though, is create the day’s blog in my head while I drive. I flesh it all out, “write” the dialogue, and let it all brew somewhere in my grey matter while I work.

When I arrive home, I prepare dinner, and while it’s cooking I write a rough “quick and dirty” version of the blog letting all the good stuff from my head flow out. After dinner I edit, and then I leave it and enjoy the rest of the evening coming back to the blog around 10:00 pm. I find that taking those few hours away helps me to find any errors and add final funny touches. I always post at 12:01 am so that it’s ready for most timezones in the morning as I’ve marketed myself as “the way to enjoy your morning coffee.” The cool thing is that most of my comments and blog views on the current blog come in the morning which tells me it’s working :-) I do this everyday Mon-Fri and take time off on weekends where I usually try to write a few more substantial blogs for the week ahead.

I also carry a notebook everywhere I go to jot down ideas, phrases, and punchlines that come to me.

My challenge, because I have a very demanding job, is finding balance and not burning out. This schedule seems to be working but I’m always aware of the potential for saying farewell to blogging forever and then returning two months later.

As such, I am a reincarnation many times over ;)

Anyways, sorry about War and Peace – this post just got me talking….

If you prefer to, then why not.

You can blog anywhere in the world

Thank you so much for this list. As my staff and I attempt to rev up a fairly new finance blog in the UK – we always welcome any ideas on how to get up and running for new blog posts.

I have been reading numerous articles on your site and I can’t thank you enough for the insight.

I would love it you have any suggestions for my blog http://www.yourmoneymarketplace.co.uk/blog

I was planning like this because after I returned back in to my work. there won’t be any hurry writing articles since I may have written hand full of articles ready to publish.

Thanks for the tips Dareen… As always!!!