Charm FX

Some pride themselves on their ability to multitask, but we really can only do one thing at a time. To manage more than that means simply breaking tasks down and accomplishing parts of tasks as we can, when we can until the entire task is complete. Human psychology tells us we can manage to keep 5-7 items or tasks in our head at any given moment. You can probably develop strategies to expand that to a hundred or more, but you’re going to start losing track and letting things slip.

My preference is to simplify things and take steps to avoid trying to do more than one thing at a time. I delegate managing and tracking the rest of the handful of tasks necessary for ongoing projects to a low tech solution…paper. I know! So old school.

When it comes to creative expression, producing work on a regular basis means time management to allow for both inspiration and production and making it practical to accomplish all the myriad tasks that might be necessary to produce multiple pieces regularly.

Managing your time and these tasks is a challenge and tends to require specific tactics depending on the materials you use and the kind of work you do.

Do you have a workable method for breaking your work down, parceling your time and tracking where your projects are at any given moment?

If you do, you know how important it is to your productivity and success. If you haven’t given it much thought it’s probably the single biggest thing you can do right now to leverage your own productivity.

How do you manage your productivity?

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