Do something visual every day for 30 days.

It’s not just photos. Do something once, it’s great. Do it twice, you add connections and time. Keep doing it and those effects multiply. And then, if you do something adjacent, you get a whole heap of benefits. You see the parallels, you get to compare and contrast. But, even more magically, if you’re also doing something else entirely, suddenly y

Count something. Every day for a month. Visualise it.

John Muir once wrote, ‘When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.’

That’s the essence of all this. I write in a notebook every day. But I almost never go back and look at what I wrote. Writing in a notebook is about transferring things from the world to your brain, not to your notebook. Your notebook is a lens for looking at the world, not a box to keep it in.

I go to my studio every day. Some days work comes easily. Other days nothing happens. Yet on the good days the inspiration is only an accumulation of all the other days, the non-productive ones. Beverly Pepper

Focus on something in the room you’re in. Just for a minute. Notice the patterns and the lack of patterns.

interesting ideas normally come from the slow accumulation of related thoughts, questions and ponderings.

Interesting people are good at sharing. You can’t be interested in someone who won’t tell you anything. Being good at sharing is not the same as talking and talking and talking. It means you share your ideas, you let people play with them and you’re good at talking about them without having to talk about yourself.