It’s not easy, life is full of time sinks and obligations of all kinds. You may only find five minutes a day, if you are lucky! But that is all the more reason to take those precious, priceless 5 mins and move the needle just a little. It has to be this way because there is nothing you can do to make the needle jump to where it needs to be. It must be a path of disciplined, consistent, routine even if it is only 5 mins a day. So don’t take those 5 mins off for anything! Not for a breath, not for a cup of coffee or mindless scrolling! Use the 5 mins to do the thing that needs to be done. If it is something that you truly want to give yourself, then do it today, now, without wasting another day!
And guess what? You will have to do it again tomorrow and the day after and repeatedly, maybe until the end of your life! Get used to it! There is no finish line in life. It is where you determine it to be. It is when you and only you say enough! It has to be this way for the evolution of man and spirit together. And if you are in it for the reward and not the work, how long will you endure without a reward?
As an artist, even if you touch pen to paper for 5 mins a day, to draw something that you love or capture a moment or do a study of something you like, be kind enough to yourself to find those 5 mins that you can give yourself daily. Even if it is a rough sketch or something that you will never show anybody, something just for you, that calms your soul and makes everything else around you disappear for those 5 mins, where you are one with your passion and there is no you anymore!