Customize your experience of the system to your needs and desires

The beauty of personal creativity management is that it’s practical and internally generated, centered around the individual.

Since there are hundreds of individual tools for you to use, there is an infinite number sequences and combinations of those tools. You can stack them to give yourself more leverage. Layering new value on top of existing creative habits to make them more enjoyable, rewarding and sustainable.

Ultimately creating your own pocket universe of stability anytime the process of making things trips you up. Here’s an example from my creative practice. In the morning, in order to ensure that my day has a cadence and rhythm, my sequence goes like this.

First is gasketing, which is a journaling ritual of emotional release. Take about fifteen minutes.

The second is centering, which is a breathing meditation that draws a line of demarcation between tasks. Takes about two minutes.

Next up is the on ramp, a notetaking subroutine that brings up my energy to operating temperature. Takes another fifteen or so minutes.

Fourth comes minimum viable utility, the writing exercise to hit my personal quota of problem solving for intellectual execution. That could take up to two hours

And the final tool is selfless service, which might be walking my dog or doing house choirs, creating value in the world for at least one person besides myself. There’s another ten to thirty minutes.

To summarize, my sequence of tools includes gasketing, centering, the on ramp, minimum viable utility and selfless service.

Having performed this sequence daily for many years now, it’s not even something that I consciously think about anymore. But it still helps me get immediate access to creative energy. It saves me time by allowing me to snap into work mode faster.

What’s your sequence? How could you stack the tools on top of each other to give yourself more leverage?

This sequencing epitomizes the value of personal creativity management. Unlike other coaching programs, online communities and complicated frameworks, we give you the ability to personalize your systems and shape it to various purposes. It’s personal development that’s actually personalized.

Not another one size fits all solution that fits into a nice, neat little box.

And the best part is, there’s no external dependency that robs you of the capability to manage your creativity on their own. My goal is to give people the freedom to customize their experience of the system to their needs and desires.

I’m not trying to make you into something you’re not, I’m giving hundreds of tools and combinations thereof to make yourself more of what you already are.

Scott Adams, my favorite cartoonist, summarized it aptly on his blog about treating ourselves as the moist robots we are:

Human brains are not equipped to understand reality so all that matters is the consistency and usefulness of our user interface.

If you want to become more prolific, you need a discipline that you can customize to suit yourself, rather than trying to force yourself to follow someone else’s methods. Don’t be like me, be like you.

Remember, each tool in your personal creativity management system may not be transformative in isolation. But the magnitude of having hundreds of mindsets, approaches, behaviors and assets at your fingertips, gives you an unprecedented source of leverage as a creator.

How could you create a pocket universe of stability anytime the process of making things trips you up?