Are Creative People Naturally Disorganized?

[Heather Jassy]

I'm really new to Creativity Champions, but I'm really excited about getting to know people on here. I would like to connect with artists who struggle with organization. I created a productivity system designed specifically for artists and creative people who struggle with mainstream productivity systems.

(read my blog article called "I'll Write the Great American Novel...Right After I Find My Keys" to learn more about artists and organization)

I'm a counselor, a personal coach and an artist. I teamed up with a professional organizer to fill the gap and to help creative people succeed. Most creative people have always been deemed 'unorganized' but we think that creative people just need the right system.

REFRAME is not a book-based system. Instead, we email tasks right to your inbox. After 30 days (5 tasks. 1 for each weekday), you will be a whole new you. Your friends will marvel when you turn up on time, and your desk will be clear. The best part: you'll breathe easier and think more clearly because your mind wont' be cluttered with useless tasks.

THE SYSTEM

Fear that you'll stop being creative if you start being organized? Re[frame] is a
productivity system that is built specifically for people like you. We've created a simple 30-day program to provide you with the framework you need to make lasting change. Each day, Monday-Friday, you'll get an email with an easy, specific task.

BY THE END OF THIS PROGRAM, YOU WILL HAVE

- a system for keeping your desk organized -a visual to-do system that utilizes writing,
color, and cool gadgetry
- a system for keeping your email inbox clear and organized
- systems for bringing new energy and focus to your current projects
- time blocks set aside to generate and cultivate new ideas and feed your imagination
- a flexible system of time management with alarms and reminders to keep you
on track

Feel free to visit my website or to email me if you'd like to know more...

Happy creating.

[Cathy]

I don't think I would term my 'jumble' as disorganised EXCEPT when I cannot find something important...usually that is because I haven't put it back in it's rightful place if it's a regularily used item.

A couple of weeks ago, come Monday morning and my bus pass wasn't in the special slot in my purse...I remembered I had put it on my rolling work table on Saturday (because I was signing my card up on a new finders service)

I looked on said table which now had other papers but I couldn't see it sooooooooo I went into overdrive. I wasn't running late at that point but I then had to rethink the (.... moments) I went back to my desktop computer and searched, I looked on my bedside tables.

Then I went back to the rolling table...and found it. The reason why I hadn't found it the first time was that the card which is royal blue was sitting on the leaflet that I had to about the new service and the leaflet was royal blue!

I am only disorganised slightly in certain places, mostly the paper war from computers and Uni class notes (I'm a student) but every so often (not when I'm lookiing for anything), I sort it all up - ditching the stuff not needed or putting it away where it should live :-)

[Peter Lloyd]

Yes. Well, not always. But mostly. No, usually... wait. Let me go away and come back when I get my thoughts together.

Peter