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In our busyness, we deceive ourselves into believing that we have no time for the activities we enjoy, the goals we dream about — for creativity, for rest … for just plain fun! However, slow and steady wins the race. Especially for those of us who periodically run w-a-y too fast in various directions! Despite [...]
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CreAtive planner —noun a person who {dares to plan outside the lines} and.or {un}plans, doodles, scribbles and rips paper as part of said process. a {handmade; collaged or otherwise artistically altered} book of days, ponderings and possibly appointments, to-do’s quotations, etc. Instead of adapting yourself to an {un}creAtive mode of goal-setting and planning — why [...]
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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan. ~Norman Vincent Peale Yep. I used the “s” word; the dreaded linear tool creAtives typically love to live without. However, the road to distraction and lost clients are paved with a freelancer’s good intentions! So … how about we accomplish this task creAtively? [...]
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Routines are about incorporating patterns and customized blocks of times within our days. Despite their lack of a positive “first-impression” for most creAtives — when we utilize routines, we find ourselves equipped to move through crazy-busy times and impossible deadlines, and carve out time for our creAtive adventures and restorative quiet times. When the days begin [...]
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Today is day 100 of 2010. There remain 265 days until the end of the year. As an experienced visual thinker — I see this is as an opportunity! An opportunity for a start line; I had been looking for one! A place to {begin again} — for “do overs.” To let myself off the [...]
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Every day we are faced with a rollercoaster of ideas, activities and interruptions that takes us for a wild ride in our attempt to manage our time effectively. Being the creAtive I am … I have employed a wide variety of tools and methods to keep myself {on-task}. Well, as much as possible — on [...]
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Dread is fear of failing to be perfect. Or at least that is the way I see it. (And probably why I spent more than several minutes coming up with the {perfect} combination of letters to spell the word, dread, using Spell with Flickr. ) One of the most effective ways I have overcome dread [...]
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Serendipitously read this entire book today … Ironically, already implementing a very similar system of “natural planning” as outlined on page 56: Defining purpose and principles Outcome visioning Brainstorming Organizing Identifying next actions As well as collecting project notes in one file/place so as to maintain Categories of Action. Young encourages planning as a method [...]
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When my schedule is disrupted, it is like my mind is a chalkboard. That has been erased. There are fuzzy shadows of once-neatly written directives and routines. Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? ~Winnie the Pooh
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This is the cover of my creative friend’s journal-planner … A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch. ~Mary Kay Ash Collage journaling — also referred to as scrapbooking, creative journaling, art journals — is my right brain method of planning and pondering the realities of the universe — well, [...]
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✩ A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of a calendar year doesn't have to include {mind-blowing} resolutions for the new calendar year ... #babystepscount
I color outside the lines {and assist others in doing the same}. More about that.
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✩ I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way — things I had no words for. ~Georgia O'Keeffe
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