It’s easy to burn time waiting when we could be creating.

How much of your time is given to initiating new things? Creating fresh projects, generating new ideas, energising your own projects, your own creativity? 

On the other hand, how much of your time is spent reacting and responding to things that come in from elsewhere? Things created by others – email, tweets, Facebook updates, TV shows, blog posts – all of which can be fuel for the creative process, but how much time do they need?

Always reacting to the outside gives less time for the creative to flow from the inside.