Time Management for Creative People - Free E-book
My series on Time Management for Creative People is now available to download as a free e-book. It’s subtitled ‘Manage the Mundane - Create the Extraordinary’ as it’s designed to help you maintain your creative focus while dealing with your other commitments.
It’s published under a Creative Commons licence which means you are welcome to share it on a noncommercial basis with anyone you think would like it, as long as you keep it intact with my name on it. (N.B. the images are licensed from istockphoto, so you should obtain a licence from them if you want to use them in other contexts - photographer credits are on p.2)
A big thank you to Cat Morley and Neil Tortorella for prompting me to write the material and hosting it as a series on Business of Design Online. The final post in the series, on time management Resources, is up on BoDo now.
I hope you find the e-book useful - let me know your experiences in the comments or via e-mail.
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20071203 3:37 pm
Mark, thanks for providing what looks to be a great resource. I’m told that when you give you receive back 100 fold. I’m hoping that happens to you. Once I see what you share, I hope to allude to it in my blog.
Thanks ever so much.
20071203 9:07 pm
Aloha Mark, Cat sent me to check out your e-book and meet you, and I grabbed the download - anxious to read it! At first glance it looks like you did an exceptional job, and as Robyn says, mahalo - thank you for sharing your coaching with us. I am pretty familiar with GTD, so what I am more interested in is reading how you have blended it with the creative habit inspiration you gained from Twyla Tharp and your own expertise in the creative arts.
Ho‘ohana: Continue your intentional good work.
20071203 11:56 pm
Hi Robyn, nice to see you! Thanks for the lovely thoughts. I look forward to hearing what you make of it.
Aloha Rosa! Welcome. Yes I’ve done my best to blend GTD and other time management approaches with the creative process and creative working habits. I have to say Managing with Aloha sounds great fun! Do you use Huna principles in your work?
20071204 1:07 am
I do share many of the beliefs of Huna Mark, but I consider myself a business coach whereas in my understanding of it, Huna is devoted to the art and science of healing and spiritual development. My mission with Managing with Aloha is to reinvent the workplace value by value, and I wrote my book and constructed my philosophy to give managers and leaders the tools they can use in value alignment, strengths management, and creating better organizational cultures – workplaces that people feel they thrive in. Returning to Huna, we certainly share strong belief in the greatly underestimated power of aloha! I have a client who calls Managing with Aloha a “Hawaiian sensibility for great work” and I love the description; I’m intent on living up to that!
Mahalo for asking Mark
Tried to minimize the horn-tooting, but hard to do – I love my work. As do you – I can tell just from reading your blog since leaving my first comment! You have done a wonderful job here; I am particularly impressed with the pages you offer in your sidebar navigation. I have subscribed so I can continue to learn more from you.
20071206 6:44 am
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20071206 7:01 am
Mark: Nice resource and i think the ebook is wonderful. Releasing it under CC is also a thing i hope more people become accustom to do.
20071206 1:06 pm
Rosa - thanks for sharing, your enthusiasm for your work shines off the screen (and enthusiasm is highly valued round here). I’m glad you like the sidebar stuff - I’m going to add some more when I (ahem) find the time.
Bengt - thanks, yes I want to spread the word hence the CC.
20071208 10:50 am
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20071208 11:00 am
Mark,
Your series was such a hit. And not just with our readers as I loved going through it each week.
And the additional plus, getting 14,000 Unique Visitors in November alone, was brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
Thank you SO much for putting all this work into your series and ebook.
cat
20071208 4:40 pm
Hi Mark … this looks really helpful. The e-book’s opening paragraphs describe my inner world most days.
The “creativity requires order” message has come to me from a number of places recently.
Cheers
Richard
20071208 7:19 pm
Thank you Mark, I am a pretty disorganized person and this will surely be of help.
Your effort is very much appreciated.
20071208 9:24 pm
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20071209 12:10 am
Mark - Thanks for this. Back after the read-through…
20071209 12:23 am
I found you, and this great eblook, through Copyblogger and I’m glad I did. I’ve heard the old “email inbox overload” strategies numerous times but you’ve broken it down in a manner that seems manageable.
Great site; looking forward to reading you more often now that I’ve signed up for a feed!
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20071209 10:04 am
Cat - my pleasure, thanks for having me as a guest! Great news about the traffic.
Richard - glad to hear it touched a chord for you. Sounds like the universe is trying to tell you something!
Nela - nice to see you again, I hope it helps with the organisation. But don’t tidy up your pictures too much! There’s a time and a place for chaos after all
Robert - ditto, great to see you again. Keep the poems coming! One day I think it will be normal for poets to use the internet the way you do, you should get the credit as a trailblazer.
Erin - welcome! LOVE your blog title. And thanks for the great write-up in your post.
20071209 12:52 pm
I just like to say thanks for the free ebook. I haven’t read it yet (I will!), but I love the fact that you provide it as a free ebook under the CC license.
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20071213 3:00 am
I just discovered iGTD a few days ago for the first time. Stumbling upon the application introduced me to GTD of which I have now done a good bit of reading about in a couple days time. Through that research, I came across your ebook which had some great suggestions. Until you pointed it out, I didn’t realize how much of a slave to constantly incoming email I had become. Doing it tomorrow is brilliant! Thanks for compiling some resources and sharing it with heartfelt advice.
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20071214 9:00 pm
I love your book. It should definitely help put my writing more on track. I’m realizing now that instead of writing at the times I’m most productive I’m doing other things. And that instead of being where I’m most productive (outside) I tend to stay in. I did read Steve Pavlina’s ideas for getting up a coupla days or so ago and am trying to get myself up at a reasonable hour or so and then just bed whenever I get tired. We’ll see how that goes.
Anyway, I’m glad Lifehacker linked to you, I shall add you to my RSS feed and my blog will most definitely give you a mention. Take care.
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20071215 10:46 am
Apologies for the delay in replying - I’ve been away on business and comments and e-mails have been piling up, so this week ‘do it tomorrow’ has turned into ‘do it at the weekend’!
1st Steve - my pleasure!
2nd Steve - I’m glad it’s helping you overcome the tyranny of e-mail. I didn’t realise how much it was affecting me until I read Mark Forster’s book.
Ariel - thanks, yes it’s easy to overlook the daily rhythms of concentration and energy, it made a big difference to me when I started aligning them with my work patterns. All the best with your writing
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20071230 11:38 pm
I finally finished reading your great e-book and want to say many thanks for your fabulous work. Your e-book is for sure an excellent book to help me more organized. And I would like to introduce your book to more people in my blog.
Happy new year!
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20071231 4:45 pm
Sophia - thanks for the comment and the great write-up on your blog, Happy New Year!
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20080131 11:50 am
Thanks Teri, glad you found it helpful. Good luck!
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20080225 8:46 pm
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20080225 8:52 pm
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20080707 9:50 pm
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Andre - thanks! very nice of you to say so.
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20080904 2:28 pm
It’s absolutely fortuitous that I noticed the mention of your website on Copyblogger today. As a writer and photographer who currently needs to balance a 9-5 with my real life, I’m hopeful that you will have some very valuable advice. Will read TMCP this weekend and post on my blog for next week.
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