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GTD and the creative life...possible?
kenzi | Mar 28 2006
Just getting started with GTD and what has me most excited is the possibility to get to my creative projects finally. I run my own business, plus have a full-time job to pay the bills. In addition to that I am spilling over with creative ideas for things I want to do, make, paint, etc. My schedule doens't really allow me the time to realize many of these projects, and they often get forgotten, or I forget to do the little steps that will help me realize them eventually, or when I do have free time I can't remember what projects I wanted to do. I am hoping that GTD, correctly applied, will help me keep track of all this, and hopefully organize my bill-paying lives so that I have time for the creative. Are there any artists or creative types (even wannabes) either full or part time who use GTD to help them toward their creative goals? What works for you in the system? Do you have to tweak it to make it fit the creative stuff, or can you just plug it all in together? 13 Comments
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 It's really intersting to hear...Submitted by kenzi on March 29, 2006 - 5:04pm.
It's really intersting to hear this from an artist; reading the book I start to feel like I have to be a CEO for this to work, although I do see glimmers of tricks that could work for my creative stuff. My problem is that I don't get to the art, so I need to manage all the other life stuff so that there is time for the art. And while I am working towards that moment when I can actually sit down and do the "art" itself, I can make my lists of things to do towards that end, like buy paint, buy canvases, research x, y & z, clean studio space, ...little things that I can do beforehand so that when I do have time to do the art all the elements are in place, and there is no excuse to put it off any longer. I think that GTD will help me hang onto those sometime/maybes so that they will evetually get done. Those are MAJOR open loops for me that I find really disappointing; because they are not necessities of life, they don't get priority, but they are necessities in the sense that my life feels empty without them. It will be interesting to share our experiences with this process applied to the work of art. » POSTED IN:
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