The Lifeboat Exercise

I just came across "11 Tips to surviving a day job with your creativity intact" by Jori Lynn Keyser. There are some good ideas in it, such as this one:

"In his marvelous little Creativity Book, Eric Maisel suggests doing the Lifeboat Exercise once a day for three days in a row, but I find it works well as a life raft all year long. Find yourself a raucous bell, he says. Ring your bell loudly and shout, 'Create!' Go to your workspace, set a timer for ten minutes, and work. When the timer goes off, shout, 'All clear!' You’ve just made ten minutes progress on your creative work and fed the connection to your heart."