Tip # 10 – Book time for creative activities
This was actually one top who was always on top of my list (if not the top of them all) – booking time for creative activities. On any regular day, this would be my schedule:
7:00 Wake up, get some coffee.
7:00-7:30 Read a journal article or book chapter (get my juices going)
7:30-9:00 Write (whatever I was writing at the time – book chapter, journal article, etc.)
9:00-10:00 Breakfast with my Mom (she had been up since much earlier as she teaches at the university from 7-8:30am almost every day)
10:00-11:00 Get ready and get a ride to my office.
11:00-12:00 Answer emails – deal with admin work
12:00-3:30 Work all around
3:30-5:30 Late lunch/nap
5:30-9:00 Work (sometimes I’d get some creative time here)
9:00-11:00 Family time
I always made sure to have at least 2 hours (from 7-9am) of creative time. Currently, I am trying really hard to come back to this schedule and make sure to have always blocks of “I’m not tweeting/blogging/chatting on GTalk/just writing!”
And with this, the series comes to a close. A further post will summarize all 10 productivity tips. Feel free to share yours in the comments section!
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- Creative Mornings Vancouver in November with @BifNaked
- Creative Minds at Woodwards Cafe September 2nd
- Guest post: Sharing content online and the Creative Commons License by Steve Anderson
- Some challenges of intellectual property law and Creative Commons
- Quick Flickr and Creative Commons rant
I used to be hard on myself for not making time to practise contact staff spinning (a type of flow art, like poi). I could barely find time once per week. However, once I started scheduling it, I managed to stick to the sched and practise!
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