Jardel Appelt is 18, currently living in Brazil and working as a model. Here is his personal blog, you would see things related to photography, technology, music, vogue and everything that pops in his mind posted here. He is also sorry in advance for the bad English 
Posted on: November 19th, 2006 Creativity is About Deadlines
What if you needed to build a powerful web app, but you had only ten hours a week for programming? What if you wanted to write a novel, but you had to do it in 30 days? What if you wanted to create a computer game, but you had only 48 hours? What if you had to write, shoot, and edit a short film in 24 hours? Constraints can be your enemy, but when it comes to creative breakthroughs, they can be your best friend.
Kathy Sierra wrote on Creating Passionate Users about how pressure make us produce more, specially when it is about creativity, or maybe, only when it is creativity. Comparing some examples in the ART world, I agree with her, most of the time when I does something is under pressure, like “need to upload something to Flickr or Deviant urgent” and can tell you that this is what make my artwork 90% of the time, taking photos too is thinking in doing something later to upload, this maybe could look ridiculous for you, but for me is what keeps me motivated.
Most of the time with lot of things to do, specially if you don’t have full time for ART and work/study, creating imaginary deadlines can help, you try to keep your weekends and holidays in front of PC, on video-game or other things to avoid stress and have the fun you are awaiting for all the week during work/school, then you forgot to do something productive. But well, doing some ART when you have free time is completely non-stress and the result make you very happy (specially if you make money with your art).
My hint to you is creating deadlines. My example: I’m not a professional artist or something like this, but I does the best that I can, I try to update my Flickr at least every week, not few, it is the limit, or upload every week or you’ll lose your public. Yeah, I don’t have so much public but most of then like my art, what I does and the way I does it, so let’s keep them as my public, in future they can be my friends or maybe just people who appreciate it.
I try to constantly make artworks, for the people that like my art, and this always will make me keep doing artworks, not just hanging out weekends and holidays, doing something that I like and will be beautiful.
Don’t forget: “Today isn’t just another day. Today I’ll create something beautiful”