A few years ago I moved into a basement apartment with @jxnblk. I was only around two weeks a month as I was splitting time between LA and DC. During this period of time, to say I learned a lot would be a discredit to how much he taught me about living life, being a designer, and being a better person.
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Pick one small thing and do it every day. Over and over. Focus on quantity not quality. Quality will come as a direct result of quantity. This is the quickest and most efficient way I’ve found to attain the agency to build anything you can dream up. You don’t have to work in 5-hour stretches. An hour of dedicated work a day will go a long way.
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Have fewer things. The fewer things in your life, the more mental energy you’ll have for other stuff. Our shared apartment space consisted of a small desk, a fold-up table, four fold-up chairs that were kept in a closet when we weren’t using them, and a set of speakers. That was it. Our rooms contained beds and nothing more. My LA house was no