{"id":3338,"date":"2012-12-23T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2012-12-23T12:06:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T16:06:17","slug":"daily-routine-of-john-grisham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/daily-routine-of-john-grisham\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Routines of John Grisham and Ben Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a long time now, I have been interested in the daily routines of successful people. Here are two of my favories:<\/p>\n

Author John Grisham’s routine, as reported in the San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>, Feb. 5, 2008:<\/p>\n

When he first started writing, Grisham says, he had “these little rituals that were silly and brutal but very important.”<\/p>\n

“The alarm clock would go off at 5, and I’d jump in the shower. My office was 5 minutes away. And I had to be at my desk, at my office, with the first cup of coffee, a legal pad and write the first word at 5:30, five days a week.”<\/p>\n

His goal: to write a page every day. Sometimes that would take 10 minutes, sometimes an hour; ofttimes he would write for two hours before he had to turn to his job as a lawyer, which he never especially enjoyed. In the Mississippi Legislature, there were “enormous amounts of wasted time” that would give him the opportunity to write.<\/p>\n

“So I was very disciplined about it,” he says, then quickly concedes he doesn’t have such discipline now: “I don’t have to.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ben Franklin’s routine, source unknown:<\/p>\n

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For a long time now, I have been interested in the daily routines of successful people. Here are two of my favories: Author John Grisham’s routine, as reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 5, 2008: When he first started writing, Grisham says, he had “these little rituals that were silly and brutal but very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3338"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3374,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions\/3374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}