Get It Done: From Procrastination to Creative Genius in 15 Minutes a Day Author: Sam Bennett | Language: English | ISBN:
B00HNEPRKO | Format: PDF
Get It Done: From Procrastination to Creative Genius in 15 Minutes a Day Description
“Organized” and “artist” don't usually go together. Creative types are more often seen as sensitive, melodramatic, eccentric, misunderstood, and the like. To those who have been labeled in this way, Sam Bennett says, “Congratulations! You're an artist.” And through the Organized Artist Company, she has coached hundreds of artists to overcome procrastination, lack of focus, and time-sucking habits so that they can get their art done and out into the world. Bennett explains why “procrastination is genius in disguise” and then prescribes dozens of wonderfully revelatory exercises — such as making a “My Heroes” list and “could-do” lists (because Bennett finds to-do lists too dictatorial) — each of which requires only a fifteen-minute commitment. She gives readers practical, real-world tips, such as how to recognize who they should not talk to about their projects and when research has created Analysis Paralysis. Each of the tools she offers shifts the reader's thinking and prompts the kind of insights that have the power to turn underperforming geniuses into accomplished artists.
- File Size: 567 KB
- Print Length: 240 pages
- Publisher: New World Library (January 15, 2014)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00HNEPRKO
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Get it Done: From Procrastination to Creative Genius in 15 Minutes a Day
Author: Sam Bennett
This book is a treasure. A fun, quick and easy read, it is hard for me to put it down. Bennett describes procrastinators accurately and also defines why they procrastinate. She suggests we (yes, I'm a prime example) don't really care about the project, or it hasn't been the right time for a certain project, or we are a little scared to start, or we can't make ourselves do it. Sound familiar?
Bennett then goes into how to choose a project. Procrastinators usually have more than one project lined up, she states. She then describes exercises that help the procrastinator choose which project to keep, which to discard, which to put off for later. Just doing this is helpful and freeing.
She lists exercises which are extremely helpful.
To start with, he has us ask ourselves five questions:
1. Do you think you will learn from working on this project?
2. Will completing this project make a difference in your life?
3. Will completing the project make a difference in the world?
4. Does your soul ache to work on it?
5. Ten years from now, will it matter whether or not you have done it?
These questions will help us choose "front runner" projects.
With each chapter suggestions are given to help the procrastinator whittle down the number of projects and figure out which are most important, which we really want to work on and what we can do to make the projects more appealing. For instance, just giving our project a new exciting and enticing name can help renew our interest.
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