A new addition to my iPhone is an app called Daily Deeds (iTunes link). It’s very simple. You make a list of actions you want to accomplish (almost) every day. As you complete them, you check them off in a satisfyingly large check box, er, circle. Trailing out to the left, you can see which [...]
From the category archives:
ponderings
I dutifully followed the Apple announcement yesterday, even showing enough restraint to wait for the 60 second auto-refresh like a good web citizen. I’ve visited the Apple site a few times since, scanning the info and gawking at the iPad. I’m impressed with it, and think it will be better in person, so I’ll go [...]
You only need to have mild interest in technology to have heard about the alleged Apple tablet that may or may not be introduced on Wednesday. Not wanting to be left out of the party, I have to squeeze in a few thoughts of my own.
I’ve seen all sorts of speculation on what the features [...]
This post is the first in what will probably maybe hopefully be a series of reflections on The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.
The War of Art is subtitled Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles. That is something that author Steven Pressfield apparently knows a little about. He was writing for [...]
This post is part of an ongoing series of reflections on my reading of The Creative Habit, by Twyla Tharp.
It was February 24 of this year that I began this series of reflections on The Creative Habit. Fresh off of reading the book, I had quite a few ideas I was looking forward to sharing [...]
This post is part of an ongoing series of reflections on my reading of The Creative Habit, by Twyla Tharp.
There has been a slight gap between posts in The Creative Habit series. By slight, I mean 42 days, 4 hours and 48 minutes. Approximately. I didn’t intend it that way. But I suppose the gap [...]
This post is part of an ongoing series of reflections on my reading of The Creative Habit, by Twyla Tharp.
Much of my energy about the creative process of late has pointed toward one thought — how to get into “creative mode”. For me, and probably for you, it doesn’t just happen. It requires an intentional [...]
“It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.” – Steven Pressfield in The War of Art
Sometimes ideas are pressing on my finger tips, demanding that I allow them to burst out into written words.
Usually not.
Most of the time, ideas form inside, where I guard them until I think they [...]
This week, Creativityist is celebrating our first birthday. The thumbnail to the right is a peek back at the first site design and the introductory post: Creativityist…one who practices creativity.
I started the blog with a few ideas, and a dark fog lingering beyond them. Today, I have a few more ideas, and the dark [...]
In the drive to be productive, it is easy to eliminate play from our routines. Certainly play is the opposite of productivity, right? Neil Fiore suggests the opposite in The Now Habit:
From studying the performance styles of achievers, I have learned how essential guilt-free play is to attaining quality work and minimizing procrastination. A firm [...]
