All we can control is the daily work

Focus-on-what-is-in-your-control is good advice, but is especially useful when thinking about a Creative-Routine. We should aim to Enjoy-the-creative-process, not focus on how it will be received. To counteract this, Austin-Kleon suggests we should only focus on the daily routine, the things that can be accomplished in the day.

This links to Four-Thousand-Weeks-by-Oliver-Burkeman-2021, with the command to Choose-What-is-Important and eliminate everything else.

Remember though

I really think the best thing you can do if you want to make art is to pretend you’re starring in your own remake of Groundhog Day: yesterday’s over, tomorrow may never come, there’s just today and what you can do with it.