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Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus & Sharpen Your Creative Mind
Jocelyn K. Glei, Editor
253 pages
Softcover
Amazon Publishing
Copyright 2013
For heaven's sake - what does a book titled Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus & Sharpen Your Creative Mind have to do with model railroading or building a microlayout? How about everything? Building a model railroad of any size requires some discipline on the hobbyist's part; any guidance we can obtain on this score merits attention. One chapter of Glei's book stands out amongst the rest.
While this book's 21 chapters are largely aimed at practitioners of the artistic, virtually every page speaks to model railroaders - after all are not are model building efforts an exercise in artistry?
Gretchen Rubin authors a chapter entitled "Harnessing the Power of Frequency" in which she claims "the unglamorous habit of frequency fosters both productivity and creativity". Here are the benefits she details:
"Frequency makes starting easier"
"Frequency keeps ideas fresh"
"Frequency keeps the pressure off"
"Frequency sparks creativity"
"Frequency nurtures frequency"
"Frequency fosters productivity"
"Frequency is a realistic approach"
Cynics among us might reply - "well of course, frequency leads to more time being spent building a layout and hence its progress will move along according". But as Rubin explains, frequency has many other added benefits. As a model railroader you will catch yourself nodding in agreement as Rubin amplifies and explains each of these mantras. It would be unfair to the editor to go into much more detail about each of her major points. Instead, I leave it to my readers to consider reading her book for themselves. If you never get to her book, then just repeat to yourself the seven mantras Giel posits as I have listed above.
Buy her book - I ordered mine on Amazon for a pittance - and apply its lessons to your model railroad building and you will thank its editor for putting this book together.
Revised October 14, 2022
Revised March 28, 2023
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