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14 Ways to Maintain Your Creative Output (During a 50 Hour Work Week)

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a person on a beach getting some serious rest

Even though creative work is fun and rewarding, it’s still work that requires a significant amount of time, energy, and focus. Here I share 14 strategies I use to maintain my creative output while maintaining full-time employment.

What To Do When You Can’t Concentrate

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Contemporary political ideologies are confounding things

I know plenty of people struggle with maintaining concentration and focus, so I thought I’d share a few methods for improving concentration.

7 PhD-Approved Ways to Increase Your Happiness

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the smiling, winking statue in Luxemborg

Your level of happiness is kind of like your body weight. Both have base levels set by genetics. Over a long period of time, both are affected to some degree by the choices you make. To see 7 PhD-approved ways to increase your happiness, click here to read more…

Increase Focus with the Pomodoro Technique

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In the Pomodoro technique, 25 minutes = 1 tomato

Time-blocking is a great way to increase your focus, and the Pomodoro Technique is a well-defined method for working in time blocks. Click here to read more.

How To Gain Two Weeks of Free Time Every Year

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Matches

Imagine you’re granted a magical power. You suddenly receive two weeks yo didn’t have before. You have no duties, no stress, no deadlines. Want to learn more?

Creating Conditions for Creativity

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Cool post-it note collage

People create for a thousand highly individualized reasons. They desire self-expression, an emotional release, or maybe some monetary reward. But beyond the desire to create something, what are the necessary conditions for creativity? How can we consciously create and foster those conditions? Click here to read more…

Walking to Improve Concentration

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Though my wife might tell you otherwise, I try and use my brain everyday. For me, taking a walk is like adding oil to an engine. All the parts simply work better. If you’re having trouble concentrating or frequently losing focus, try taking a short (20-30 minute) walk, especially if you do a lot of desk work. Click here to read more

The Myth of Laser Focus

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During the month of September, I wanted to test the hypothesis that I would have greater focus and productivity if I only focused on one thing. Well, the results are in, and they’re not pretty. Click here to read more…

One Important Question

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Working on projects and goals, it’s really easy to become bogged down in a labyrinth of tasks and actions that aren’t as important as they seem. Some of these tasks are so time-sucking, their value so miniscule, that they aren’t even worth doing. At the same time, they feel like they’re worth doing because, well, [...]

Keeping Track of Ideas

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Ah, the floppy disk.

In my geekiest post ever, I’ll teach you how to keep track of all your ideas with a filing system. Go ahead and laugh. I can take it. Learn more…

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