From David Allen's recent enewsletter:

Create, maintain, and nurture a place where you can think and write in a more relaxed mode than where you deal with bills, email, phone calls, and the nitty-gritty of your work flow. Keep a separate set of writing tools, paper, journal, and inspirational reading there. Give yourself permission to sit there and not produce or express anything, but put pen (and/or laptop) at hand so that on the slightest whim you have no resistance to writing something.

This "tip" speaks to a particular point of pain I've had lately.  When I come to my desk in a more reflective mood, I suddenly confront all the things that I need "to do," and what may have turned into a time for some intellectual creativity or spiritual refreshment slips away as I become more task-oriented. 

I'm thinking that my blogging time should take place in this other space, too.  Lately it's been too difficult to justify the time blogging when I'm looking at client deadlines posted clearly right here in my workspace!

Now to find such a space here in my home office, which already contains two desks, two computers, two filing cabinets,  hundreds of books, and most of my material for homeschooling my son next year! 

 

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[christian louboutin]

Your articles and photos are really shock me. The pen can be a weapon! You are a talented writer with a pen, and maybe you will be

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