developing the art of creative neglect
Learning to neglect the right things, or the art of creative neglect is a valuable tool that can drive us towards during what is valuable to us, with our time.
- Pay yourself first when it comes to time
- Use your best and most focused hours in a day to do what is most important to you.
- It is not necessary that your career should always be deserving of your best quality time. If you have a creative project that you’ve been looking to start, which will add meaning to your life, it is best to dedicate some of your best time to it.
- Avoid waiting for the right moment; begin today, however small.
- Limit your number of concurrent projects
- Avoid having more than three managable, well-defined, concurrent projects
- Never leave projects half-finished. Either complete it, or abandon it if it is not working out.
- Learn to say no to projects you do want to do
- Charlie Munger said, list the top 25 things you want to, and scratch out all but 5, and work on them
- The only way to be successful is to limit and focus prioritites