Comments on: deadlines can be lifelines [the creative habit] http://www.creativityist.com/2009/08/10/deadlines-can-be-lifelines-the-creative-habit/ soul | workflow | mac Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:20:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Erik Mallinson http://www.creativityist.com/2009/08/10/deadlines-can-be-lifelines-the-creative-habit/comment-page-1/#comment-961 Erik Mallinson Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:52:22 +0000 http://www.creativityist.com/2009/08/10/deadlines-can-be-lifelines-the-creative-habit/#comment-961 In Twyla–speak I take projects that have no interest to me (even important sounding ones) and box them up, perhaps coming back to them later to plunder or rework. The thrill is gone, so why pretend it’s as important as I thought it was? It certainly hasn’t led me to fame and fortune but at least I have a shorter list of things I think I am committed to. The deadline itself is important though. Most (all?) of Twyla’s work has a very firm deadline. I’m quite envious. For those of us who do not have performance based creations perhaps it’s a matter of defining the goal and creating a reasonable deadline based on it …a series of projects that add up to the whole thing. I think sometimes my "next actions" are really projects and my projects are really goals. Thus some of my goals are actually life plans. In Twyla–speak I take projects that have no interest to me (even important sounding ones) and box them up, perhaps coming back to them later to plunder or rework. The thrill is gone, so why pretend it’s as important as I thought it was? It certainly hasn’t led me to fame and fortune but at least I have a shorter list of things I think I am committed to.

The deadline itself is important though. Most (all?) of Twyla’s work has a very firm deadline. I’m quite envious. For those of us who do not have performance based creations perhaps it’s a matter of defining the goal and creating a reasonable deadline based on it …a series of projects that add up to the whole thing. I think sometimes my “next actions” are really projects and my projects are really goals. Thus some of my goals are actually life plans.

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