I guess I am a bit lucky now because I dont have to go out to work. However,  I used to have a full time job and two little girls to take care of and I still found the energy to start painting in the evening, or go out to painting classes.
Now I have more time, less responsibilities and more space but I get a lot less done... (I blame my age, but I know it's a poor excuse).  Getting over the initial barrier to starting is the main problem,  so I agree - need to find a routine to get over this hump.
I was very lucky and most of the time I worked in rooms with windows overlooking great views - orange groves, pacific ocean, campus pond, medeteranean sea, gardens (not all at the same time). Now I have my studio set up in the basement with large windows &doors to back garden, park-like public area and the mountains in the background. Enough light during the day, and a "day-light"  type light for the night.  Sounds too good to be true... well, probably wont last.

"I paint that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence."
Man Ray, modernist painter
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