As a writer,. I have no trouble disciplining myself to dig in and write. In fact, sometimes I lose track of time when I’m on a roll. I’ll often look at the clock and realize I haven’t left that seat for several hours. It’s always quiet out here in the country, unless the neighbors are target practice shooting or a cow has a complaint, but it’s especially quiet at night, so I do some of my best (I think, anyway) writing at night. Sometimes on into the night. But the job of re-writing and editing and re-writing again and correcting and tweaking are hard! Every time I go back over a chapter I’ve written, I can find something I want to make better. The pursuit of the flawless is a fool’s errand. I can always make it better. Or so I think.

If you write, what is your preferred method and time?

I had an epiphany today: Wanting to be happy, wanting others to be happy, thinking that being happy is the key to life—not so. Wanting to have a meaningful life, to have a purposeful life, to make a difference, to want to do something with your life—those are worthy goals. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? No. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of a meaningful life, the pursuit of purpose? Much better

Stop looking for happiness and start looking for purpose. You will be much happier.