Examples of getting creative and courageous
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ivanjay205
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I spent a lot of time fully customizing my weekly review. I dont know that I would say its courageous or creative but it is very much customized.
My first step is I actually walk around my office and just chat with a few people a bit. Im a business owner so it gives me a chance to see people on Friday afternoons before the weekend. Also give me a mental break from work as I transition into the review on Friday afternoons.
I have a mac so I run a shortcut and it turns on an acoustic playlist I have as backdrop, hides all app windows, and presents omnifocus in a perspective I use for the review. It helps a lot set the relaxed focus.
It does have lots of steps customized to my needs but I feel great once its done. Really transforms my mindset.
Not for me either.
I start my weekly review by getting my inbox to zero. Then I look at my calendar, actions, projects and all the rest of it. By the time I am done, somehow my inbox is overflowing with things that I have captured during the weekly review process. Just going through my lists gets my creative juices flowing.
This is one way that I know whether I have been creative and courageous during my weekly review, but it would be really great to see how other people think of this step.
This is one way that I know whether I have been creative and courageous during my weekly review, but it would be really great to see how other people think of this step.
schmeggahead
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One customization of my review was to keep a completely blank piece of paper next to me while I do my review. At the beginning of my review, I date stamp it and write "Capture Mind Sweep" as a header and sit a pen I enjoy writing with on the page.
As I work through my review, all kinds of creative things and courageous things come at me as I am working through clarify, seeing follow-up waiting for items, looking at the calendar, reviewing someday maybe, etc.
In other words: This step occurs for me throughout the review process.
The key to making it happen is, for this sheet, to apply brainstorming rules: Capture everything, suspend judgement, freely identify benefits. Since this is capture, there is no requirement to do it (like all mind sweeps).
Somehow, this change occurred naturally. When I came to the creative step during one weekly review, I saw all the creative & courageous things that were already identified through the ordinary course of completing the other steps.
Hope this helps,
Clayton
Don't dream it, be it. - Frankenfurter - Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I find this question intriguing as it's sort of like saying to someone "How do I have fun?". Well, it's hard to answer how you might get creative or what you find courageous compared to anyone else. I think I would just say don't get caught up in trying to follow that piece of advice too literally. It's all relative.
It might be just looking at your someday / maybe list and finding a cool item on it that gets you to say "Ah, you know I really should do that this weekend" or just getting out of your comfort zone by going to a new restaurant, watching a new movie, starting a new hobby, or taking a weekend vacation to somewhere you didn't/wouldn't before. Of course, it could be nothing at all and just relaxing and spending time at home, with family, or in your backyard/on your patio/balcony.
Other times, you may look at everything and be fine with not being creative. It's not mandatory after all.
Hope this helps!
It might be just looking at your someday / maybe list and finding a cool item on it that gets you to say "Ah, you know I really should do that this weekend" or just getting out of your comfort zone by going to a new restaurant, watching a new movie, starting a new hobby, or taking a weekend vacation to somewhere you didn't/wouldn't before. Of course, it could be nothing at all and just relaxing and spending time at home, with family, or in your backyard/on your patio/balcony.
Other times, you may look at everything and be fine with not being creative. It's not mandatory after all.
Hope this helps!