Creative process

Productivity, mindset, and doing the work

Ditch your to-do list

A radical approach to productivity: do what you want to do, not what you feel you have to do. Choose joy.

Let's talk about deadlines. Why we need them, why we dread them, how to deal with them gracefully.

If there never feels enough time to make the creative work you want to make, here are ten reasons why.

Five exercises to help you get started. To keep going. And then get your work out there.

If New Year's resolutions and goal-setting doesn't work for you, try this instead.

For creatives, thinking time is essential. Bill Gates had a regular Think Week. Could you adapt that to your life?

Advice from Jonathan Ive, Zaha Hadid and other brilliant creatives

Most creative lives are full of interruptions, disruptions, curveballs. Or even just holidays! Here's how to get back into flow quickly

If your creative efforts are all feeling a bit pointless at the moment, this is for you.

Choose three key things every day. And get them done. Simples!

The best time to begin your next big creative project? Now.

My memories of a 35-year-old magazine cover. And what it might teach us now, about creative process.