So start with three pages of longhand morning writing. State exactly where you are. Do this daily. “I’m awake and I’m tired.” “I dreamed I was in an airplane crash but I survived.” Every morning, no matter how you feel, tell your pages how you feel. Think of your pages as a daily sign-in. Let them become a habit for you. Allow yourself to be honest

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he realized that he’d put the cart before the horse: the legal contract work was piling up, making him miserable, and it made no sense to try to turn his brain over to a beautiful pie-in-the-sky project when this pressing work required his immediate attention. So he lowered the bar to eye level. What was going on? Why had the contract work become s

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There are practices that can assist in accessing this deeper well inside yourself. For example, you can try an anger-releasing exercise where you beat on a pillow for five minutes. It’s more difficult than you might think to do this for the full duration. Time yourself and go hard. Then immediately fill five pages with whatever comes out. The objec

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Take a few sheets of paper and for three days on end write down, without fabrication or hypocrisy, everything that comes into your head. Write down what you think of yourself, of your wife, of the Turkish War, of Goethe, of Fonk’s trial, of the Last Judgement, of your superiors – and when three days have passed you will be quite out of your senses

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