Review | The Right-Brain Business Plan

Many creative people – artists, coaches, crafters, or spiritual advisers (among many) find business planning for their small businesses difficult and off-putting. Business planning is often presented as a series of logical templates and steps – write up an overall plan, think about profits and expenditures, forecasts and...

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From the Blog Archives | Blogging Editorial Calendar

May 05, 11 From the Blog Archives | Blogging Editorial Calendar

Posted by in Blog, Productivity, Writing

As this month is Wordcount’s Blogathon challenge, and I am participating, it seemed timely to give you another look at my own blogging editorial calendar. This post is from the CM archives, however I’ve updated screenshots to show you what is planned (and will no doubt change) over this month. From the Original Post, October...

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Top Reads : Being Creatively Productive

Dec 31, 10 Top Reads : Being Creatively Productive

Posted by in Blog, Creativity, On Creating, Productivity

Subtitle : Goal-Setting, New Years Resolutions and Productivity for Creative Types. For my Top Reads this week, given it’s the final day of the year, I am focussed on my own picks of the top blog and website posts out there for setting achievable New Years resolutions or (in other words) goals. I also have a little to say on...

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Productivity | 9 Simple Solutions to Procrastination

Today I had a mission. It was a reasonably simply one – I intended cleaning up one end of our central living area which has several bags and other items scattered across the floor. I actually set about doing it, too, for ohhhhh – about two seconds. Then I sat down with a total feeling of overwhelm. It’s not that...

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Productivity | Blogging Schedule

Last week I started thinking about creating some kind of an editorial calendar for the Create Minded blog. I am currently writing up a large series of posts linked together into my own CM*P – Create Minded Program into creativity, and wanted to both structure these posts, and spread them out amongst my more normal range of...

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