Austin Kleon:
So I decided to make 250 poems in 25 weeks. 10 poems a week. I couldn’t see it happening, so I drew it. 25 rows, 10
checkboxes. Until all the
checkboxes would be full
And that’s how I’ve been living for the past four months. Every week,
there are 10 checkboxes to be filled, and I fill them. At the end of
every poem, there’s the satisfying X.
Creating any long work of art is all about time management. Any goal
you want to accomplish: get yourself a calendar. Break the task down
into little bits of time. Make it a game.
Number one productivity tip:
Get yourself a calendar, and schedule the work you have to do in there.
Make sure the calendar is the type where you can see a day or a week at
at time (not a month at a time), so there’s room to write under each
day. Then, mark in any regular commitments you have…Once you’ve got all
that there, you will be able to see how much time you really have to
work….In the time you have for work, assign yourself very specific
tasks…Taking a little time to get all this in your book will do several
things for you.
