Thursday, September 16, 2010

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Finding your way around Sustainably Creative

If you’re new to Sustainably Creative, or just want some help finding your way around, this is a good place to start.


Think of this post as a sort of guided tour of Sustainably Creative, a place for new readers and regular visitors alike to delve deeper into the large number of posts that make up the blog, as well as keeping an eye on what’s new and what popular.


A good place to start is with a few hand-picked posts to get a feel for the site:


Recommended Reading


  1. Sustainably Creative: an introduction...
  2. Staying focused
  3. Just do it. Advice for anyone with limited energy who wants to get creative stuff done.
  4. ME/CFS Awareness Month: Lessons for everyone from an artist with ME
  5. Don't compare yourself to others, just get on with YOUR important work
  6. Achieve (almost) anything you want with a pen, paper and a pot of tea
  7. Why a running minimalist business is perfect for an artist with low energy

As with everything else on this site there’s not need to rush. Why not make a pot of tea and pick one or two posts from the current top 20 of most read posts:


Top 20 Post of All Time (automatically updated)


Take things slowly and make a pot of tea


  1. Start to Draw Your Life is now available as a free eBook to download

  2. 20 Wonderful Drawing Blogs

  3. Take the 20 minutes a day challenge

  4. 75 Ways to Draw More

  5. Start to Draw Your Life

  6. Why focus is so important if you want to be creative but are low on energy

  7. About Michael

  8. The Beany #4 is now available as an ebook

  9. 10 ways to just get on with your important work despite being tired or having limited time!

  10. The Unconventional Guide to Art and Money

  11. 20 things to do to practice focusing on one thing at a time.

  12. 10 ideas for ways to be kinder to yourself (and increase your creative output)

  13. Don't compare yourself to others, just get on with YOUR important work

  14. 20 things you can do in 20 minutes (and create a sense of momentum)

  15. Can't wait? Make your own (drawn!) iPad

  16. Your Important Work: an introduction

  17. Guest Post: A simpler life for artists

  18. Achieve (almost) anything you want with a pen, paper and a pot of tea

  19. 10 reasons to just do something creative and not care about the result

  20. Thank you, nearly done…


I recently started to publish a microMagazine called Getting Your Important Work Done (if you’d like the microMag delivered to your inbox every couple of weeks you can subscribe by popping your email address into the box on the top write hand corner of any blog page), and have written some posts for the blog too:


Getting Your Important Work Done


Getting Your Important Work Done

  1. Your Important Work: an introduction
  2. Your Important Work: What it's not
  3. Your Important Work: A space of your own
  4. Your Important Work: Getting on track (and staying there)
  5. Your Important Work: Just get started (by stopping)


You can also explore the blog via it’s main categories:


Categories



If that lot isn’t enough to give you an idea of what it means to be sustainably creative you can also find me elsewhere banging on about working little and often and keeping it simple:


Elsewhere



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