Focus
How To Channel Your Attention
Focus is the most valuable tool you have as a creative professional. How you define problems, and allocate attention to them will often determine your success or failure. However, many organizations allow significant “attentional drains” to infiltrate their culture and rob team members of much needed mental bandwidth. On this episode, we share three valuable strategies for building attentional buffers to protect the bandwidth of the team, and ways to talk to your manager about protecting your own attentional bandwidth.
The Career Investments Every Creative Pro Should Make
Three things you should consistently do to invest in your future.
A Five-Part Daily Planning Process
Your life is composed of days, and how you spend those days is how you spend your life. On this episode, I share a simple five-part daily planning process that will help you stay on-course, engaged, and focused on the things that matter most.
Focus, Function, Fire
What exactly does a great leader do? There are three key things that an effective leader of creative people provides for the team consistently and well. On this episode, I share the importance of focus, function, and fire to the creative process.
Organize Your World With a Weekly Checkpoint
Many creative pros charge through their work over days and weeks without ever stopping to assess whether they’re on the right course. In this episode, I share a simple method for instilling a checkpoint into your life to help you ask critical questions about the work you’re doing and the life you’re living.
How To Plan Your Day In 10 Minutes
If you were going to purchase a house or a car, you would probably step back and consider how you’re going to re-organize your finances to ensure that you’re preparing yourself properly and will use your money effectively. However, many people are much less intentional abou thow they spend their day than how they spend their money. Yet, which is more valuable? How you spend your day is how you spend your life. On this episode, you’ll learn a very simple 10 minute method for planning your day effectively so that you bring your best creative value to your clients and organization.
5 Ways To Shake Up Your Creative Process
Over time, this pressure to produce every day can cause us to fossilize around bad habits. We get into a rhythm – the bad kind – that causes us to move mindlessly through our days without much thought for our process. On this episode we share five places where you might be experiencing “fossilization”, and some remedies for dealing with them.
3 Strategies For Reclaiming Margin
Feeling overwhelmed? Yeah, join the club. So many creative pros feel as if they are swimming upstream every day; like they go to bed at night a little farther behind than they were when they woke up that morning. Often, this is a function of a lack of margin in your life and work. On today’s show, we share three specific strategies for reclaiming your life, and instilling margin so that you can bring your best work every day.