Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life

“People who do great things don’t wait until the time is right. They make the time.”

“When we are facing the last seconds of our lives, minutes become precious. The key is to understand their preciousness today when there is still time to make those minutes matter.”

“stop thinking about the length of a day in terms of hours and start thinking in terms of minutes. Minutes matter.”

“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand, small, uncaring ways.”

“Organization for organization’s sake is a fool’s errand, perpetrated by people who don’t value their time appropriately and forget how soon they will be dead. If color-coding papers in a folder costs you ten minutes in labor but saves only thirty seconds of effort, then don’t do it.”

“Your job as a creator - a maker of things - is to make your thing, but then put that thing on a proverbial shelf in your brain. Not on some shelf in a dusty pantry at the back of your brain but on display in a place of prominence and importance. Keep it in a place in your mind (or, if it's small and tangible, on an actual shelf in your home) where you will come across it often. Rather than forgetting about it and moving on to the next thing, imagine it as a glowing bauble, looking to become something new and different and maybe even better.”