Silver Clipboard: Time Management Tips and Personal Productivity Tools

The shower: a time in the day for unintentional zen-like meditation. Your mind is clear, unfocused when — bam! — an unexpected solution pops into your brain. It’s the answer to a problem you’ve been working on for a while. Great — the only trouble is you’re naked, wet and covered with [...]

Noise comes in colors: pink grey and brown are just a few examples. Each of these colors signifies a precise, scientific definition known only to acoustic specialists but one color, white, has entered the general lexicon. White noise has come to mean constant background sounds that the listener eventually becomes unaware of. [...]

‘Time Management for Creative People’ by Mark McGuinness, is a useful little e-book with the subtitle ‘manage the mundane — create the extraordinary’. It appealed to me for several reasons. First, it doesn’t treat creative work as though it is divinely inspired — it’s getting your butt in a chair and working. [...]

Scheduling creativity is a fool’s task. You can’t sit at a computer and decide ‘now is the time I will be creative’. However you can force yourself to work on existing projects.
Ideas appear when the neurons firing in your brain make a new connection. Creativity is random. The good news is you [...]