{"id":9493,"date":"2012-06-20T11:59:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T16:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=9493"},"modified":"2012-06-20T11:59:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T16:59:58","slug":"more-creative-more-productive-in-2-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/more-creative-more-productive-in-2-days\/","title":{"rendered":"More Creative &#038; More Productive in 2 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Get Plugged In\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/10393601@N08\/2868226565\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Get Plugged In\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3010\/2868226565_f59e82b464.jpg\" alt=\"Get Plugged In\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small> Photo Credit: <a title=\"Rennett Stowe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/10393601@N08\/2868226565\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rennett Stowe<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.compfight.com\/\">Compfight<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><small><\/small>Try this experiment with me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I did it, and I got much more done. My Creative Muse seemed to appreciate it too. I wonder if it&#8217;ll help you.<\/p>\n<p>BE WARNED. Everything in you will itch at first, but stay with it.<\/p>\n<p>Here it is: <strong>Postpone checking your email or going online until noon, for 2 weekdays in a row.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First Create:\u00a0Get your most creative work done first. (Maybe after a cup of coffee.) Do stuff like idea generation, constructing a mission plan for your project, and the sorts of things that take more <em><strong>lateral<\/strong><\/em> thinking (vs. vertical analytical thinking&#8230;drill downward at one spot problem solving.)<\/p>\n<p>Second Do: Get your 10 min &#8220;must do&#8221; stuff out of the way. You know the little things that pile up at work or home that take 10 minutes or less.<\/p>\n<p>(If some of these must <em>do things<\/em> include going online or emailing&#8230;put it off until 10 or 11 a.m.)<\/p>\n<p>Then, please report back.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited to hear what happened. It&#8217;ll be interesting to compare notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get your most creative work done first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5335,5626],"tags":[859,5801,2581,5655,5800],"class_list":["post-9493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-spark-my-muse","tag-creativity","tag-idea-generation","tag-planning","tag-problem-solving","tag-productivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9495,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493\/revisions\/9495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}