How do you start making something yourself?

How do you start making something yourself? And above all, how do you finish it? We share three insights.

• A litte bit every day
  The best tip for modern times: Break what you want to do into small pieces. Or, start a 365-day project. Want to crochet a blanket from granny squares? It’s a lot easier when you commit to making one square every day. That’s how you stimulate your creativity. According to psychologist Leonard Martin, people function best when they regularly feel that they’re getting closer to their goal. Take artist Henri Jacobs, for example. Every day he does a drawing and he advises his art students to do the same. “It solves start-up problems,” he says in the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. “Many artists just sit and wait for inspiration, while art is simply a matter of working. Start with one line and the rest will follow.”