Time Containers
Name the projects you are going to do today (“replace the Bundt-cake monologue,” “Outline the battle scene, “ “Build and test the airplane puppet” ... etc.) Each project wants to be achievable and specific and make a real contribution to your project. So “have ideas” is a bad project assignment. As is “fix second act.” Assign yourself an amount of time to contain your work on each of these projects: — build and test airplane puppet. 45 minutes. — replace the Bundt-cake monologue. 90 minutes. — outline for battle scene. 30 minutes. Allow yourself 5 minutes at the beginning of each task to size up the problem. If there are multiple ways of attacking it, take a few minutes to identify these (or some of them). BUT THEN PICK ONE method and use THAT. Save a few minutes at the end of the time period to “show” or “document” or “observe” what you have achieved. At the end of each period, just sit with what you did for a few minutes, before you move on. In this moment of reflecti...
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