Being Productive: Rituals of Creative Minds

Ritual
Do you have lay out a set of rules for your life ? Do you feel weird or uneasy when you miss your morning coffee ?

Does the question above gives a bang in your head ? Sounds familiar ?
People are so absorbed into their daily schedule up to a point where some routines have been turn into auto-pilot mode. I will call this routines that constantly replay itself over and over again as ritual.
Different people have their respective rituals; some had to drink a cup of coffee in the morning while some prefer to hit the day with some music. Nevertheless, these rituals will serve as one's source of inspiration and at the same time reflects one's identity.


Application
How do you use ritual to your advantage ? In my opinion, rituals helps to instill order and solitude in anyone life. I have with me below a list of rituals from creative minds.

1. Addicted to note cards
Those are the people who write down their ideas on note cards so they can play with the sequence here and there. I find the idea very intriguing as you can arrange, group or even break ideas apart. Note cards will prove to be quite an ingenious idea.

2. Write 10 pages a day
This is a particular ritual of Mr Stephen King. He will devote himself to 10 pages of writing per day before calling it a day. From the list of best seller he had written, you can see that this method is really his ace.

3. Work early in the morning
Many creative minds prefer to work in the morning where there are no distractions and the morning air seems resonates with their inner genius. I really admired this ritual ad have since try hard to include it into my list of rituals.

4. Asking questions 
Most of the people who excel in their line of work begin his or her day by asking themselves a question. The question can encompasses objective, achievement and also other stuff.

Care to share with us your rituals.