Manage Your Mind, Not Your Time (with David Kadavy)
How to bring your full creative effort every day.
Manage Your Mind, Not Your Time (with David Kadavy)
Articles about Time
Get Productive With Time Chunks
Get Productive With Time Chunks
Use your calendar to master distraction.
Taking Time To Invest In Yourself
Taking Time To Invest In Yourself
Due to recent events, many of us have suddenly found that we have more time on our hands. On this episode, we share a few principles for using time to invest in yourself and to plant seeds that will produce a harvest later.
A Five-Part Daily Planning Process
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.
Protecting Your Team’s Time and Attention
Protecting Your Team’s Time and Attention
The two most precious resources you have as a creative pro are your time and attention. They are under a constant onslaught from organizational needs, client demands, and personal anxieties. As a manager, you must commit to protecting these finite resources at all costs. On this episode, we share three principles for doing so from Todd Henry's book Herding Tigers.
How To Develop a Daily Writing Practice
How To Develop a Daily Writing Practice
Writing every day has tremendous benefits to your creativity, your emotional state, and your career. On this episode, I share some tactical tips for establishing a daily writing practice, including how to commit the resources, choose your tools, and find the right format to help you turn information into wisdom.
How To Have Better Meetings
How To Have Better Meetings
How to honor the time of your team and your clients.
Digital Minimalism (with Cal Newport)
Digital Minimalism (with Cal Newport)
Carve out the space you need to do your creative work.
How To Plan Your Days For Max Creativity
How To Plan Your Days For Max Creativity
How you spend your time is how you spend your life.
Using Time Chunks To Master Your Days
Using Time Chunks To Master Your Days
The best way to ensure that your most important work gets done is to dedicate time to doing it.
The One Thing (with Geoff Woods)
The One Thing (with Geoff Woods)
If your organization is like most others, expectations are rising and resources are probably dwindling. We're trying to cram more activity into our days, but often feel like we're only falling further behind. On this episode, Geoff Woods is here with practical advice for making sure the most important things get done each day and that you don't go through your days in reactive mode. Geoff is the host of The One Thing Podcast, which is based on the best-selling book The One Thing.
Off The Clock (with Laura Vanderkam)
Off The Clock (with Laura Vanderkam)
Annie Dillard once wrote "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing." However, many of us struggle to find a good balance with our time. We always feel like we're running behind, and that we lay our head down each night a bit behind where we awoke that morning. On this episode, time expert Laura Vanderkam is here to help us understand how people with a healthy perspective on time allocate their hours effectively. Her new book is called Off The Clock.
How To Plan Your Day In 10 Minutes
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.
Push Through The Second Wall
Push Through The Second Wall
There are two walls that creatives hit when engaged in making something meaningful. The first wall, and the most obvious one, occurs before or very early in the process. It’s what causes us to shrink back from engagement and to instead seek something – ANYTHING – that will immediately relieve our need to feel productive. It’s much easier to check e-mail, make a call or re-shuffle the papers on our desk than it is to bare our soul to the blank page, the blinking cursor, or the empty art board. However, the second wall can be the one that really keeps you from producing your best work. On this episode, we share some strategies for surmounting it and pushing through to your best work.
3 Strategies For Reclaiming Margin
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.
6 Rules For Chunking Your Time
6 Rules For Chunking Your Time
A time chunk is simply a dedicated amount of time, an hour or two if possible, to immerse yourself in the important, but not urgent work on your plate. Rather than relying on the non-time-committal nature of a task list, time chunks ensure that you will spend a certain amount of focused effort making progress each week. You know that interruptions or other distractions won’t get in the way, because you’ve built a bulwark against them.
On this episode, we share 6 simple rules for establishing (and keeping) time chunks on your calendar so that you make progress on your critical creative work.
Make The Most Of Your Meetings
Make The Most Of Your Meetings
Meetings are necessary to a healthy team, but when you spend most of your day in meetings, it makes it challenging to accomplish any of the real work for which you’re accountable. Worse, when meetings are stacked one after the other, it sometimes means little time to think or be strategic about them. On this episode, we share five quick tips from Herding Tigers about how to make the most of your meetings.
Podcast: Why You Should Cluster Your Work
Podcast: Why You Should Cluster Your Work
The constant shift back and forth from creative work to administrative work throughout your day carries a high price. You pay a task switching penalty each time you try to make this transition. On today's show, I share a few tactics from The Accidental Creative to help you cluster your work for a more effective work week.