Word After Word

Ray Crist, yoga teacher, says he meditates for three minutes, none of this hour business. I love this. It applies to writing perfectly. People who plan to write their book during summer, on weekends, on sabbatical, or after retirement, often do not get that much done. Much better than setting aside huge chunks of time for these things, meditation, yoga, writing, is three minutes now. Ray said he does his three minutes ten or twenty times a day—there’s an hour. 

Instead of quitting your job to write or reinvent yourself, write a little all the time now.