A few weeks back I wrote about 6 tips the Overwhelmed Creative can use to get control again. In response to that my friend Rafal sent me some of his tips for bringing focus back to your life. Rafal runs Sandbox Rim and it’s a great site that I have in my RSS reader. Here […]



A few weeks back I wrote about 6 tips the Overwhelmed Creative can use to get control again. In response to that my friend Rafal sent me some of his tips for bringing focus back to your life. Rafal runs Sandbox Rim and it’s a great site that I have in my RSS reader.


Here are the four actions he identified as helping him deal with overwhelm.

doing a mind sweep
checking my next action list
checking my project list
setting out couple key tasks to complete.

I want to leave you with his last paragraph as well because it’s a good reminder of the fact that life happens and that our initial plan is a guess about what we can get done.



One thing I’m getting reminded of time and again is that “life happens” and expecting that world will neatly fall into GTD, Omnifocus, Todoist setup is pointless. At the same time these tools and methodologies help us to stay on top of things so that when “life happens” we have reference point to return to in order to start again.


Links

sandboxrim
My Things routines
My YouTube channel
The Bullet Journal Method
6 Tips for the Overwhelmed Creative

Gear Used

iPad Pro 9.7 (not available but the 11 is)
Canon 60D
Rode Video Micro
Ledetech iPad Stand
iPhone 6S Plus