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procrastination

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 [...]

producer or procrastinator?

November 13, 2008 · 1 comment

Throughout The Now Habit, Neil Fiore draws a contrast between producers and procrastinators. His idea of the producer matches up with what I think of as a creative person — one who practices creativity. A creative person is not only someone who does art, though art should always be a celebrated product of creativity. A [...]

the now habit

November 5, 2008 · 3 comments

While driving 2300 miles from Seattle to Austin this past summer, I thought it might be a good opportunity to listen to the audiobook version of The Now Habit, by Neil Fiore. It wasn’t. Not that it isn’t a helpful book. It is. In fact, that was the problem. I was about an hour into [...]

I’m posting my reflections earlier this week because some of this material has been sticking with me a lot. To mix it up, allow me to offer a few quotes from the chapter that captured, and troubled, me: The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to [...]

A few weeks ago, I blogged about when “when” is bad. I meant to follow it right up with what you are about to read. But I had to wait until “when” I had time. It became a bad “when”. But “when” isn’t always bad. I’ve previously written about using GTD before as a way [...]

In 56.98 hours, I will walk out of my final lecture of graduate school. But who’s counting? Between papers and another writing project I am in the midst of, I haven’t been able to blog as much. But that just feels like a small taste of what the last three years have been like. I’ve [...]

just. get. started.

April 17, 2008 · 1 comment

I don’t mean to brag. But it’s true. I’m a fabulous procrastinator. Better than most. A few weeks ago, I was in a stretch that required 45 pages of writing in about 7 days. Required might not be the best word. I knew each of those due dates at least three weeks prior. So, perhaps [...]