Franz Kafka is recognized as one of the most influential and creative writers of the 20th century, but in fact most of the time he worked as an official in the insurance department.
How did he manage to reach such heights in literature when the work took so much time and effort?
He rigorously followed his the proper daily routine of the !
Day regimen is the correct distribution of its time by the hour: morning rise and night sleep, it is a 5-day meal during the day, work and rest time, exercise and personal hygiene, etc.
Franz Kafka went to work by 8.30 am,worked until 2.30, then he ate and went to bed until 19.30, did exercises and had dinner with his family, after which he began to write somewhere from 23.00 and then again a dream and everything from the beginning!
Kafka is quite unique in its commitment to the routine.
As Mason Curry noted in his book: "The mode of genius: The order of the day of great people" - many of the greatest people in the world, in their lives, followed the firm regime of the day!
The daily routine of the great people
- Maya Angelow rented a room in the hotel and wrote there. She came at 6.30 in the morning and wrote until 14.00, after which she went home and edited, written. She never stayed at the hotel for the night.
- Pulitzer Prize winner Michel Chabon - wrote five nights a week from 22.00 to 03.00.
- Haruki Murakami woke up at 4 in the morning, wrote 5 hours, then went for a run.
Creativity does not depend on motivation or inspiration, but it more closely follows our habits, patterns of behavior and routine work.
The creation and execution of daily rituals - this is what leads to creative successes, and not a mythical brilliant insight!
That's why. ..
William James - the famous American philosopher and psychologist, said that habits and rituals are important, because they "free our consciousness and move it to a really interesting work."
The Guardian magazine confirms what was said!
One of the articles notes "when you spend resources on deciding where or when to work, thereby preventing your productivity!"
There are also many studies of willpower and motivation in support of the above statement.
I present you the full mode of the day of the well-known psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud( take note):
In other words, if you seriously intend to create something original - you should stop waiting for the arrival of motivation and inspiration, and just make yourself a sequence of successive actions.
Naturally, this is much easier to say than to implement in practice.
Here is one idea that can lead you to create your own mode.
Idea for the formation of the correct daily routine for
A good example for of developing its day regimen can be an allegory with weightlifting.
While doing weightlifting, I can not predict whether I will beat my personal record in raising the gravity or not.
In fact, it turns out that a lot of classes I will show average or even low results.
In the end, it turns out that all my results are just part of the overall development process.
The only way to get higher weights is constant repetition, from Monday to Friday, exercises in the gym, regardless of the results.
Creative work, not too different from training in the hall.
You can not choose only your best moments and work only on those days when you are visited by great ideas.
The only way to discover great ideas inside yourself is to implement a large amount of work, constant rehearsals and repetitions again and again.
Obviously, working with an average result is not an end in itself.
However, you must allow yourself to go through these, occasional days with average results, because this is the price you have to pay for getting outstanding results.
If you, even a little bit, are a perfectionist and hate to do something that can not be called outstanding, you can easily begin to condemn the results of your work and convince yourself not to show anything, not to publish, and so on, because "it's not good enough!"
On the other hand, the alternative option may be even worse: if you do not have a hard mode, by which you work, you have the opportunity and nothing to do.
The only way to come to the creation of a masterpiece is to allow yourself to do junk along the way.
How to start getting up early?
A lot of people around will never write anything, because they will think a lot about what else they should write.
This can be said about other areas of activity: physical development, the beginning of its small business, creating a picture, inculcating useful habits and much more.
Your mode is a system that will turn your goals into reality. In the event that you do not establish a regime for yourself, you can count only on motivation.
- If you do not charge at a strictly set time, you will wake up every morning and think "I hope today I will feel enough motivation to work out";
- if your business does not have a 4p marketing system, then you will have to sit cross-fingered at work and hope that you will conquer the whole world( in addition to everything, what you really need to do);
- if you do not have time to constantly practice writing, then you will think something like: "I just need more willpower to do this."
A few tips on how to make your daily routine,
, see also in the video below.
Organize your day right!
Stop waiting for the motivation or inspiration that will make you, and create your the correct daily routine for the , which you will strictly follow.
That's the difference between a professional and an amateur.
Professionals follow the regime, and amateurs are waiting.