It’s amazing how many times I’m told how structure seems to impede and limit creativity and how many people tell me they don’t want to be ‘boxed’ in with structure as it will stop their creative juices.

In the same conversation I hear how people are overwhelmed with work and are scrambling. What do you have to NOT do in order to turn chaos into order?

Structure brings freedom, it doesn’t limit it.  If you’re all over the place, don’t focus on any one thing you won’t finish anything well, never mind have the time to let your creativity come out to play.

Contrary to what you might think it is not possible to do two things at the exact same time.  Your brain can’t concentrate on multiple things simultaneously so what it does is move back and forth from one thing to another with gaps in-between while you shift your thinking, taking away focus and replacing it with confusion.  You are wasting time, not saving it.

Sara Paddison said “Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real.” What do you want that moment to contain? Do you want to create something amazing, no matter what it is, or something that’s perhaps just barely good enough because you weren’t giving it your full attention?

The distinction is excellence vs. mediocrity.  Think about that the next time you juggle four things at once.

Last but not least…

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With deepest respect,

Donna Karlin
Founder and Principal
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