My Goals for 2019—I Must Be Crazy To Think I Can Do This Much In One Year

Happy New Year! I hope you had another good holiday weekend with a possible day of work mixed in. If you managed to swing another day off today, enjoy. If you’re back at work just remember it’s a short week.

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2018 Goals Review—A Surprisingly Productive Year

Happy Holidays! I hope you’re enjoying the end of one year and are looking forward to the next one with its potential to grow and change for the better. For me, it’s a time of year when I like to reflect on the year that was as a precursor to setting goals for the year to come.

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Think Longer Term to Be More Productive With Creative Work

Last week I told you how I break down my writing process and how I think about the different steps in the process in terms of the energy level and focus I need in order to work on them. I also told you how I use these energy levels to manage my tasks for the day.

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How I Manage My Creative Projects and Tasks

On and off throughout the year, I’ve been talking about my struggles with creativity and productivity, specifically about the difficulty fitting creative tasks into a productivity system along with some thoughts for how you might go about it.

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How To Productively Manage Your Creative Work

Last week I expanded on some of the reasons I find it difficult to fit creative work into a productivity system given the fuzzy nature of creative work as well as my own peculiarities in how I work best.

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