These days it’s far too easy to get distracted.<\/p>\n
Whether it’s sorting through hundreds of spammy emails, posting updates on Twitter, or \u00a0watching adorable cat videos on YouTube — it is way too easy to fall down the endless rabbit hole that we call the internet and not get anything done.<\/p>\n
When it comes time to write our novel or paint our masterpiece, there never seems to be enough time in our busy lives.<\/p>\n
I used to find the time to do everything but write. Everything else was a priority, but writing because it was\u00a0saved for “when I had a free moment”, rarely got done.<\/p>\n
We need to start<\/em> with creation.<\/p>\n Instead of trying to fit writing into my daily schedule, I eventually decided that I needed to start with creation and then answer emails and post status updates with whatever time I had left each day.<\/p>\n Writing became something that was no longer optional.<\/span><\/p>\n Of course there are still days when life has other plans or I don’t get up early enough and the writing has to wait until later. However\u00a0those non-writing days are now the exception rather than the rule.<\/p>\n Instead of being a person who writes, I have become a writer who lives.<\/p>\n Today I will create — will you?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These days it’s far too easy to get distracted. Whether it’s sorting through hundreds of spammy emails, posting updates on Twitter, or \u00a0watching adorable cat videos on YouTube — it is way too easy to fall down the endless rabbit hole that we call the internet and not get anything50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471],"tags":[525,524],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motivation","tag-create-something","tag-today-i-will-create-something-beautiful"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Today-I-will-create.jpg?fit=960%2C625&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Luu2-oO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}