How are you doing setting the ambience for your best work? For me a warm steady breeze works best. Warm because I don't want to be cold and steady because I don't want to get too hot. A warm steady breeze in my workflow happens like this.
It blows between things. Between other events and appointments throughout the day. There is no happy hour of creating or innovating or thinking. It doesn't happen every day between 4-6 pm. It more often occurs after my session with my physiotherapist, before my scheduled meeting with my boss. Between those things. 30 minutes here, an hour there, intentional for sure (i.e. steady), but between other stuff.
Its warm all the time. There is always a back burner seeing the world through a particular set of eyes, that can draw a metaphor for life that is worth living. Its always warm. Its always on. There is no effort to it, It doesn't take a ton of energy nor attention. Just a percolating slightly all the time. Its always warm and slowly cooking something good up.
And often, it is actually a warm steady breeze, for real. Like at this very moment, my "office" is the rooftop of my building, and its about 3000 square ft, with a killer view, internet, can enjoy my cigar, and there is a constant perfect warm breeze blowing out of the south. A moment to create and think and innovation and build and develop. Its an accelerant for the mind and heart. And about the time the cigar ends, I will have to go back to the scheduled and planned and have a conversation with the boss . . . but the warm steady breeze was a golden moment.
