Brief notes from: Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind by Jocelyn K. Glei
- Scheduling time for creative thinking. “Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating” John Cleese
- Creative work first, reactive work second.
- It's not about ideas, it's about making ideas happen
- Know your complex goals
- Manage to-do list creep. Limit your daily to-do list. A 3” × 3” Post-it note.
- Establish hard edges in your day. Dedicate different times of day to different activities: creative work, meetings, correspondence, administrative work, and so on which will help avoid workaholism.
- Let things go. The most important rule in achieving your goals via your inbox is that distracting opportunities have to die for your most important goals to live.
- Banishing multitasking from your repertoire
- Audit the way you work and own the responsibility of fixing it OR surrender your day-to-day.
