Getting Things Done

Serendipitously read this entire book today … Ironically, already implementing a very similar system of “natural planning” as outlined on page 56:

Defining purpose and principles
Outcome visioning
Brainstorming
Organizing
Identifying next actions

As well as collecting project notes in one file/place so as to maintain Categories of Action.
Young encourages planning as a method of being “in the moment” — of [...]

Hittin’ the High Notes

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time … The wait is simply too long. ~Leonard Bernstein
These words sum up what is going on in my writing world at present. Especially since, I have yet to develop that necessary approach to bridge the moments [...]

Tabula rasa

When my schedule is disrupted, it is like my mind is a chalkboard. That has been erased. There are fuzzy shadows of once-neatly written directives and routines.
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
~Winnie the Pooh

Neither an End nor a Beginning

Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
~Hal Borland

Creative Planner

This is the cover of my creative friend’s journal-planner …
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.  ~Mary Kay Ash
Collage journaling — also referred to as scrapbooking, creative journaling, art journals — is my right brain method of planning and pondering the realities of the universe — well, my universe! [...]

Put it in writing!

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire. ~Napolean Hill

Building Your Own Skyscraper

There are times when creative planners find it difficult to simply begin a project. Especially projects we label, “big” …
We do this since we are big picture planners; we make sweeping strokes to outline the path we see in our mind’s eye. Details make us tired and tend to lead us to distraction.

But here is [...]

Life: In Freehand

Freehand drawings are something I make a policy to avoid. The act of sketching a freehand drawing — without guides or measuring— just seems too daunting!
Perhaps it is because my freehand drawings tend to look odd or out of proportion. (I did successfully learn how to sketch from the techniques Betty Edwards presents [...]

Quotable

The years beyond one’s date of birth are sure; however, aging is optional. ~Right Brain Planner