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    Break Your Busy - Set Your Creativity Free: Enjoy Better Life and Time Management. Stop Procrastination, Be More Effective.: Work Life Wide Open
    Break Your Busy - Set Your Creativity Free: Enjoy Better Life and Time Management. Stop Procrastination, Be More Effective.: Work Life Wide Open
    Break Your Busy - Set Your Creativity Free: Enjoy Better Life and Time Management. Stop Procrastination, Be More Effective.: Work Life Wide Open
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    Break Your Busy - Set Your Creativity Free: Enjoy Better Life and Time Management. Stop Procrastination, Be More Effective.: Work Life Wide Open

    By Richard Conner

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    One of those books that change you on the inside and the outside:

     

    • Identify what Busy Work is for you personally
    • Start using simple strategies to eliminate it from your life
    • Do what you want instead of being forced to do what you don't
    • Feel more purposeful, fulfilled, and happier with your life
    • Tune in to your creative instincts, intuition, insights, and intention
    • Take creative action at home, in relationships, at work, and in business
    • Feel and be more creative, more of the time

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTransformerpreneur
    Release dateAug 28, 2016
    ISBN9781536528275
    Break Your Busy - Set Your Creativity Free: Enjoy Better Life and Time Management. Stop Procrastination, Be More Effective.: Work Life Wide Open

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      Break Your Busy - Set Your Creativity Free - Richard Conner

      Break Your Busy

      Break Your Busy

      Set Your Creativity Free: Enjoy Better Life and Time Management. Stop Procrastination, Be More Effective.

      Richard Conner

      Transformerpreneur

      ‘I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.’

      William Blake

      Contents

      Your Money Future

      T-Types Test

      Preface

      Notes

      Self

      Introduction

      I. Breaking Your Busy

      1. Busy Work vs Real Work

      2. Riding Work Edges

      3. Primal Necessity

      4. Money, Work, and Time

      5. The Seven Works

      II. Making Clear Space

      1. Reality Check

      2. List Manipulation

      3. Experiments In Reductionism

      4. Work Vacuum Challenge

      5. Expect Inefficiency

      III. Getting Real Creatively

      1. Ignore Creative Urges At Your Peril

      2. Connecting To Your Creative Core

      3. Journalistic Intention

      4. Continual Idea Generation

      5. Being Most Creative

      Conclusion

      Feedback Loop

      T-Types Test

      Your Money Future

      About The Author

      Also By The Author

      Copyright

      Disclaimer

      Contact

      Glossary

      Your Money Future

      See your money future clearly today. Change it now for a better tomorrow with Flowcasting™ BEGINNER Money Kit.

      Find out more > bit.ly/money-kit

      Take the T-Type Test to find out your Transformerpreneur Profile primary Tendency, Dependencies, and Complimentary.

      Find out more > bit.ly/ttp-book

      Preface

      Old Beginnings

      I was the managing director of a successful, professional consultancy, headquartered in London. It was co-founded officially with two of my closest and longest-standing friends around the turn of the millennium. The business was born during a three to four-year incubation period while the partners worked their respective day jobs.

      As co-leaders of an international creative agency, we had to navigate the extremes of relentless economic turmoil. We were forced keep pace with the fast moving, disruptive development of marketing communication technology and online content creation strategies and techniques.

      Like many businesses leading into and out of the crash of 2008, it was hustle or die. We had to quickly and regularly identify, often pre-empt, but always implement significant change to restructure and reorganise to compete, survive and after much hard work eventually thrive and prosper.

      Before this, and in parallel, I was also co-founder and co-director, with the same partners, of an award-winning architectural practice. Under the leadership of my former co-director since my departure during late 2009 it too matured into a successful focussed in-demand creative consultancy business.

      Stark Contrast

      In stark contrast to the relentless bustle of the agency’s London HQ in Shoreditch, its international studios, and my architect designed London Fields two bedroom apartment my life has taken a seemingly sudden and abrupt change.

      Now, I live in a cave, my jungle home on a small island off mainland Thailand, surrounded by nature, in peace and calm. I have for the moment, a relative abundance of time, energy, focus, and space to work on what I want and feel passionately drawn to, when I want to. Including me, my self, and I.

      In the past I might have used this space and freedom frantically working to get a new or long-forgotten project off the ground. Or, I’d scrabble around trying to launch a new business, all without skipping a beat, to secure an income and stay ahead of the game.

      Typically this would all happen without a moment’s break or pause for real thought and feeling investigation into what I truly wanted to do with and become in my life.

      Most importantly these seemingly wayward entrepreneurial endeavours were missing a deeply meaningful Why.

      This time, at long last, my approach was intentionally different.

      Notes

      Overhwelm

      Throughout the Work Life Wide Open series ‘overwhelm’ will be used in noun form. According to the Oxford English Dictionary it has been used as such since at least 1596.

      It will be used, firstly, as shorthand for the life, work, and relationally overwhelming circumstances, situations and contexts we sometimes find ourselves immersed in.

      And, secondly, to define the psychological and emotional impact we experience as a result of this ‘overwhelm’.

      Overlap

      To help ensure each book within the Work Life Wide Open Series is as accessible and useful as possible it is necessary to establish a conceptual base understanding for new readers.

      As such, please assume there will be 5%-15% of overlapping content between books. This serves to reintroduce and remind the reader of key foundational concepts relevant to each book’s core content and message. I hope you welcome and accept this repetition in the spirit it is intended.

      Self

      To Self

      Throughout this book I will use ‘your self’ and ‘our self’ to refer to that part of us that inherently knows, consciously or not, the most authentic truth behind what we really want and need in life.

      For clarity, ‘yourself’ and ‘ourself’ will refer to the individual relative to an external factor, influence, or context.

      For example, we may be too distracted to feel what we are experiencing at a physical and emotional level within our bodies. As a result, we often avoid, deny or delay the need to consider, take, and make life-changing decisions and actions.

      We postpone finding and exploring what we genuinely want to do, be, and experience to a far-off future. We forget ‘our selves’.

      Conversely, we may have to convince ‘ourselves’ that breaking a bad habit is good for us, i.e. ‘our selves’ and those around us.

      Throughout the book consider working with ‘your self’ as an internally referenced experience and working for ‘yourself’ as a predominantly externally referenced experience.

      Introduction

      Unwarranted Urgency

      We have inherited and cultured an urgency to do more. We strive to be ever more efficient regardless of how effective or enjoyable this never ending work we incessantly keep doing really is.

      We feel a desperate need for better life and time management techniques to help reduce stress and overcome overwhelm so that we can continue to be yet more productive.

      Despite our best efforts these surface level solutions only tackle the symptoms of the High Definition Life context we are all living in.

      They ignore the underlying cause of the discord and conflict that drives this incessant cycle of work for work’s sake.

      To solely use time management, motivation and anti-procrastination techniques as a way to help you feel better, less stressed, and more purposeful is like trying to keep the rain off with a sieve during a thunder storm.

      You will get soaked wet through and your life will still be riddled with a continual stream of Busy Work.

      Ocean of Overwhelm

      Like fish

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