Time Management For Creative People
Posted December 7, 2007 in Productivity 6 Comments »
About a week ago Mark McGuinness of Wishful Thinking released a free ebook on time-management for creative people appropriately subtitled ‘Manage the Mundane – Create the Extraordinary‘.
The content of this e-book is also available on BoDo (Business Of Design Online) as it was first published there (8 posts). But you can now download the free ebook, it’s nice to have as it’s filled with incredibly useful tips and resources.
Table of content:
- Why you need to be organized to be creative
- Prioritize work that is ‘important but not urgent’
- Ring-fence your most creative time
- Avoid the ‘Sisyphus effect’ of endless to-do lists
- Get things done by putting them off till tomorrow
- Get things off your mind
- Review your commitments
- Resources to help you get things done
Remember, it’s free and it’s really worth reading! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
And for those of you who always find there’s not enough time in a day, Dave Navarro (yes the ‘other’ Dave Navarro) who writes on FreelanceFolder every Monday (hello Dave!) challenges you to get rid of the ‘victim mentality‘ some of us have about time.
- I don’t have the time.
- If only there was more hours in a day…
If you sometimes find yourself saying stuff like that, take a minute and check out Dave’s site and take the challenge.
Cheers
Jon
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About the author: Jon Phillips is a full-time freelancer, designer and blogger, he loves WordPress and plays guitar in a heavy act. He's also the founder of Freelance Folder. Oh and he'd be pleased if you would follow him on Twitter. :)
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6 Comments
Mark McGuinness
December 8th, 2007 at 12:10 pmHi Jon, thanks for the great write-up, much appreciated. Hope it’s a good fit with all the other great resources you have on here.
Jon
December 8th, 2007 at 12:25 pmYou’re very welcome Mark, thanks for making it a PDF :)
Mark Abucayon
December 9th, 2007 at 10:08 amwow this really helps me. Thanks a lot and you know what you did a great job on this article.. Thanks
redspace
December 17th, 2007 at 6:56 pmThanks Jon for the link to the free ebook. i just download it. time management is so critical in building success. not many doing it even myself are having trouble just to make a schedule or plan and following it. The thought of doing thing spontaneously sometime hinder me from work with a plan or schedule. hope can change it as quickly as i can.
Training Connection
June 26th, 2009 at 7:07 pmSo many of us creatives do not prefer to operate within time constraints. This article was a great help!
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