Get It Done
From Procrastination to Creative Genius in 15 Minutes a Day
1st Edition
Published on 15. January 2014
240 pages
978-1-60868-211-9 (ISBN)
Description
"Organized" and "artist" don't usually go together. Creative types are more often seen as sensitive, melodramatic, eccentric, misunderstood, and the like. To those who have been labeled in this way, Sam Bennett says, "Congratulations! You're an artist." And through the Organized Artist Company, she has coached hundreds of artists to overcome procrastination, lack of focus, and time-sucking habits so that they can get their art done and out into the world. Bennett explains why "procrastination is genius in disguise" and then prescribes dozens of wonderfully revelatory exercises - such as making a "My Heroes" list and "could-do" lists (because Bennett finds to-do lists too dictatorial) - each of which requires only a fifteen-minute commitment. She gives readers practical, real-world tips, such as how to recognize who they should not talk to about their projects and when research has created Analysis Paralysis. Each of the tools she offers shifts the reader's thinking and prompts the kind of insights that have the power to turn underperforming geniuses into accomplished artists.
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Sam Bennett is the creator of the Organized Artist Company (www.TheOrganizedArtistCompany.com), dedicated to helping creative people get unstuck, especially by helping them focus and move forward on their goals.
Originally from Chicago and now living in a tiny, old-fashioned beach town outside Los Angeles, Samantha offers her revolutionary "Get It Done," "Get Your Work Out There," and "Creative Genius, CEO" workshops, teleclasses, public speaking engagements, and private consulting to overwhelmed procrastinators, frustrated overachievers, and recovering perfectionists everywhere.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Exercises
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Procrastination Is Genius in Disguise
- Chapter Two: Which of Your Thirty-Seven Projects to Tackle First?
- Chapter Three: Your Creativity Toolkit
- Chapter Four: Overcoming Perfectionism
- Chapter Five: How to Do Your Could-Do List
- Interlude One: A Prayer for the Capable
- Chapter Six: How Many Kinds of Artist Are You?
- Chapter Seven: Who Are You to Do This, Anyway?
- Chapter Eight: Do You Really Have to Make a Budget?
- Chapter Nine: Where Will You Find the Time?
- Interlude Two: An Ode to the Overwhelmed
- Chapter Ten: Organizing Your Space
- Chapter Eleven: Looking under the Rock
- Interlude Three: A Prayer for Hoping against Hope
- Chapter Twelve: Why Is It So Awful When Everyone Thinks You're So Wonderful?
- Chapter Thirteen: Do You Quit When You're Almost Done?
- Chapter Fourteen: Beginning to Get Your Work Out There
- Chapter Fifteen: Ending at the Beginning, or Okay, Now What?
- Chapter Sixteen: The Fear of Failure Is Perfectly Reasonable
- Acknowledgments
- Endnotes
- Index
- About the Author
