creative productivity
Overcome procrastination and anxiety—follow through on your creative habit
6 ways to defeat the blank page 🔥✍️🔥
Recently, I wrote about how common it is to feel the impulse to undermine yourself and get derailed just when things are going well. It’s great if you can identify what’s happening in time, and pull back from the brink. But what if you’ve already managed to drive your project into a ditch, and you’re
Losing focus? There are reasons you derail your progress
It happens every time I get about two-thirds of the way through the Creative Focus Workshop with a group of students, and creaky, self-defeating patterns start breaking down. People start to take action on projects that have been back-burnered for ages. Stuff starts to happen. It was happening for Chris, who has wanted for years
Say goodbye to creative burnout: “If it doesn’t fit, it won’t happen.”
When too many projects split your focus, nothing gets done—at least they don’t get done without a panicked scramble, cramming in extra work on evenings and weekends. Find out how screenwriter and film director André Hedetoft broke the pattern and started getting his most important work done on time.
If creativity is so freeing, why do I feel like I’m trapped?
Against grit: Why setting the bar low is the key to making real change in your life
12 hard-won tools and strategies from navigating a 12-year project
How to stop putting off that major project in 6 simple steps
