How to Unlock Your Creative Motivation

May 27th, 2008

How to Unlock Your Creative Motivation – FreelanceSwitch – The Freelance Blog

“Recognize the stages of the process that you’re not strong in and plan around them accordingly. You might be able to avoid that stage altogether.

Coming into the busy season for my industry, I’m reminded again of the lessons I learned last year from Josh Waitzkin’s The Art of Learning. I need to re start my focused mind training to get my trigger back. I’m also taking my audiobook copy of “Getting Things Done” by David Allen on the plane with me and putting time into organizing my GTD methodoly in Omni Focus.

Creativity can’t flourish in a crowded mind.

That’s how the GTD methodology helps my creativity flourish, the key principle is that it clears your mind. The key principle of “The Art of Learning” is to focus your mind – so between the two – I become the Yin-Yang of creativity.