Create Your Bliss Station: The Ultimate Hack to Unstoppable Creativity

In today’s world, distractions lurk around every corner—notifications, emails, social media, news cycles. For creatives, this constant noise can be the enemy of focus and inspiration. Austin Kleon’s 'Keep Going' introduces a powerful antidote: the bliss station.

A bliss station is a sacred space or time carved out intentionally for creative work. It’s where you shut the door on the world’s chaos and open yourself to deep focus and incubation. This might be a quiet room with your favorite tools, a cozy corner at a café during off-hours, or even just a daily hour where you switch your phone to airplane mode and dive into your art.

Why is this so powerful? Because creativity requires periods of disconnection as much as connection. The bliss station is your creative sanctuary, a place where ideas can simmer and grow without interruption. It’s not about perfection or productivity but about creating the conditions for your best work to emerge naturally.

Even short bursts of focused time, free from digital noise, can yield surprising breakthroughs. Some artists turn airplane flights into bliss stations, using the enforced solitude to experiment and create. Others find that simply protecting a consistent daily appointment with themselves transforms their creative practice.

Creating a bliss station also means learning to say no—to distractions, to social obligations, to anything that threatens your sacred creative time. This boundary-setting is an act of self-care and respect for your craft.

By nurturing your bliss station, you build a refuge for your creativity to thrive, a place where your ideas can take root and flourish.

Ready to build your own bliss station? Start by identifying a place or time you can protect daily. Turn off distractions, gather your tools, and honor this moment as sacred. Your creativity will thank you.

Sources: Dan Silvestre summary on Keep Going, SobriEF book summary, Austin Kleon podcast interviews 1 2 3