Routines can give you back your sanity, time, and spaciousness for your creativity. And even more than that, routines train your brain - when you have a creative routine you are prepping your neural pathways for the work. Creativity needs the support of some variation of routine and discipline/commitment.

The topic of practices to unblock creativity is closely tied to the previous one on creative rest and to the next one on routines. I’m a big fan of framing activities - especially the ones on this list - as practices because every day and time will be different based on mood, energy, context, time, space and more.