Keeping Your Projects Moving
New Workshop this Month
I’m happy to interrupt my normal letters to you and share with you my newest workshop happening on Thursday, August 10th at 7pm EST.
Creative projects can be like tending to a garden. A number of factors have to come together in order for the garden to come together, and they don’t all have to happen in an exact order.
First there has to be a vision to create the garden. You might not consciously have this vision but it’s usually there in the background. Then there has to be a space for the projects to exist, whether it’s on a balcony, a backyard, or in a communal space. And from there you work on sprouting seeds and seeing them through to plants. You have to consistently water the plants, prune them and fight off insects and other problems that come up along the way.
It’s not a linear process and can often be messy. Sometimes we lose a few plants that aren’t a good fit for our garden. But we hang in there over time and enjoy the fruits of our labour.
This workshop is designed for people who either have challenges getting projects off the ground or they struggle to keep them going when things get difficult.
The spoiler alert is that there is no one method that’s going to solve these problems, but it’s a chance to sit down and think about your own methods and see if there are any new skills and ideas you want to incorporate into your work.
We will be covering the following items:
What makes a good project or venture worth pursuing?
Applying business model thinking to creative projects
How to set goals in a healthy way
Scheduling the right amount of time for projects
Developing a better relationship with sales and money to create sustainable work
Making use of newsletters and social media to help bring energy to your projects
Using journaling and Morning Pages to manage your inner critic
Tools for maintaining focus as you work on your scheduled blocks
My approach to working with attendees is grounded in a mix of experience working in both traditional businesses as well as non-profit organizations on one hand, and navigating a career as a musician and composer on the other.
As a graduate of the Masters in Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MMIE) program at the Smith School of Business in 2019, I am continually defining my own vision of what productivity means in a world that is continually harder to find focus in.
As the author of this newsletter you’re reading, every week I prompt you into thinking about what your Most Creative Work is.
These workshops are an extension of this research and writing and give me the chance to engage with you about helping you nudge your projects forward. I wish for my attendees to find success and would like to see us achieve our goals together.
It costs $43 CAD (~$33 USD) to attend, and you will get a recording of it within 48 hours of it being completed.
Subscribers of The Most Creative get $5 off by using the code iamcreative at checkout.
Hear a bit more about the workshop from me, sitting on the floor of my kitchen below (it’s the most comfortable spot to record a video in).
Thanks for reading today, and see you again on Thursday with my next letter to you.