“I only have fifteen minutes, so why bother?”

• “I don't have time to make art anymore”
• “I'll get back to it when things calm down”
• “I need a whole free weekend to really get into it”

Somewhere along the way, making things got filed under "for when I have time." Work, family, the house, everything else comes first — reasonably — and the creative stuff waits for a free weekend that never arrives. When you do get a stray fifteen minutes, it doesn't feel worth starting. By the time you've set up, it'd be time to pack away.

The trouble is that the big empty block is a myth for most people. And the belief that real work needs one quietly makes every small window feel pointless, so nothing happens in them either. The practice doesn't die all at once; it just stops getting fed.

Fifteen minutes a day is more than an hour and a half a week, every week. Small, regular sessions also keep a project warm in your head, so you're not spending the first hour of that rare free afternoon remembering where you were.

Coaching here is practical: looking at your real week rather than an ideal one, finding the windows that already exist, shrinking the "getting started" cost until a short session is worth it, and working out what you actually want this practice to be — so the time you give it goes to the work you care about.

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