Therefore I postponed it to the next day. More importantly this time issue was accompanied quite strongly emotionally with an intensive feeling of reluctance. What should you write about? Do you have all the materials necessary for painting? Is everything already set up? Do you have sketches prepared already? Unless you know already exactly what you are going to do, so that doing it is simply mechanical execution without thinking, don’t put it on your todo-list.įor me, the reason why it did not work turned out to be the following one: quite consciously I knew how much time such an endeavor would take, and that fully committing myself to it would cut a significant piece from my day. Such an item is just too big, too scary to even start with. For example’s sake I would write something like the following on my list:Īnd, of course, looking at examples of such a list, you will understand immediately that such an item on a todo-list is not inspiring any action whatsoever.

The problem I had with writing the creative items on my todo-list was that they did not match the usual pattern of todo-tasks. Preparation is more than half the battle.

In the meantime, however, I have come up with a different strategy to get my regular things done and increase my creative output as well.

To conclude, during these experiments I haven’t achieved anything creative at all. Looking at this pile did not really inspire me to do anything creative at all. I got my regular tasks done but all the creative items kept piling up.

Since I have scheduled different creative endeavors on different days, you might already guess what happened. They would be postponed to the next day and then to next and so on. Not so! What happened, in fact, was that while checking off my todo-items I would postpone the creative items on the list. In order to boost my creative output I have put several creative items on my daily todo-list and hoped that somehow getting things done and creativity would magically match. It happened to me on several occasions that I mixed up todo-list style working mode and creativity working mode, although every single time I was convinced that I did things the right way.

Creative todo list