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Plan that (Creative) Project

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The left brain is about: words numbers logical thinking sequences rational thinking analysing being objective looking at parts
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The right brain is about: rhythm colour imagination daydreaming spatial thinking intuition holistic thinking synthesising being subjective looking at the whole
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Its about using your whole brain, not just one side or the other...
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creative project planning happens in 4 steps

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1. vision 2. current reality 3. action steps 4. keeping it going

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1. vision
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What is it I really want? How will I know when I have it?

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2.current reality

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what is my current reality in relation to this project really like?

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woods or trees?

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3. action steps
(5 ways to plan stuff)
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VISION

ACTION STEPS 1. ____________________________________________________ 2. ____________________________________________________ 3. ___________________________________________________ 4. ____________________________________________________ 5. ____________________________________________________ 6. ____________________________________________________ 7. ____________________________________________________ 8. ____________________________________________________

CURRENT REALITY

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ACTION STEPS TIPS

1. This is the simplest possible way to plan your project. 2. First, get your Vision and your Current Reality as clear as you can and write a compelling paragraph (or dot points) in the relevant boxes. 3. Next, plot the obvious action steps ..don't worry about gaps. It is a trap for young players to overplan. An overall strategy is great, with as much detail as you can for now. 4. For each major action step, you can create a Subordinate Chart to break that action step into its own action steps. 5. For each action step, ask yourself: Is it brief, accurate and concise? Does it have a due date? 6. Overall, ask: If I do all these steps, would I get to my vision? 7. If No, see if you can plug any gaps if not, just be aware of them and see if the missing bits become clear as you proceed.
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mindmap your project

renew community teaching gig

call someone each day

see someone each weekend

family and friends

keep healthy
daily walks

meditation

existing business projects

finish Canberra project

shorter hours?

garage sale keep day job

???

money
write that novel

research trip to Cairns

do outline

20 hours per week

make a living from writing editing course

book for Feb

sell shorter excerpts (articles)

use research to develop articles

organise time
4 quadrants

big rocks

networking & contacts

join writers group
???

call editors

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MINDMAPPING TIPS
1. This is a great tool for great tool for generating ideas & planning, as it works with left and right brain, logical and holistic at the same time. Its a bit like making a street map to your destination. 2. Put an image in the centre for the main idea - add a word or phrase. 3. Use a colour to draw a branch out from the centre, or a bubble floating nearby...add a word that relates to an aspect of your project. 4. One word or concept per branch/bubble, each branch connecting to the central image... 5. Add sub branches/bubbles around the main ones. 6. Use pictures to prompt your memory. 7. Lots of colour is great.
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blueprint your project

family and friends

call someone each day see someone each weekend

renew community teaching gig

existing business projects

finish Canberra project

keep healthy
daily walks meditation

keep day job / shorter hours?

money

garage sale

sell shorter excerpts (articles)

use research to develop articles

do outline

write that novel

???

organise time
4 quadrants big rocks

research trip to Cairns

call editors

20 hours per week ???

networking & contacts

join writers group

editing course
book for Feb

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BLUEPRINTING TIPS
1. This is a great tool for spatial planners, who like to see visual representations where the relationships between elements is clear. 2. Draw the spaces for your project as if you were doing a floor plan for a house. Experiment with number of rooms, links between rooms and sizes until you feel it is right. More important aspects of your project will have a bigger room and areas that link together should be placed next to each other. 3. Each room represents a core aspect of your project. So, if your goal is to support yourself from writing, a core aspect will be to write your novel! Put these in words in the centre of each room. 4. In another colour and smaller print, put in known aspects of the core, medium term goals and ongoing elements. If you know there is more, but dont know what it is, use question marks. 5. From here, you can either make monthly or weekly to do lists for each room, or copy your plan with just the room names so you can write in week-to-week tasks (or monthly for slower projects). One week, for example, your writing blueprint might have teach writing course at local school in the Money room and ring Susan from literary agency in the Networking and Contacts room.

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LISTING YOUR PROJECT

ONGOING
Daily walks Meditation Call a friend daily See a friend weekly Plan each week

URGENT
Book editing course Renew community teaching gig Call Susan literary agency

SHORT-TERM

MEDIUM-TERM

LONG-TERM
First draft Final draft Publish!! Holiday to celebrate!

Finish Canberra project Shorter hours/day job Call editors Join writers group Garage sale Outline of novel Cairns research trip Find an agent Write 3 articles for publication Solve plot problem re barrier reef trip???

TIPS
1. This is a great tool for people who love lists, who like linear organising of tasks. 2. Put all the tasks you can identify into these 5 categories. 3. Do the things in the first 2 columns until all the urgent tasks are done. Then make a new urgent list and rethink the short-, medium- and long-term lists. 4. If you know there is more to do, or an element that isnt clear, but dont know what it is, use question marks.

Joanna Maxwell

info@liveincolour.com.au Phone: 0421 310 370 Polaris Associates Pty Limited 2006

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STORYBOARDING YOUR PROJECT

MODULE: Sell short articles JOB: Write article about Cairns holidays TIMING: During September LOCATION: Sydney / Cairns DO FIRST: Research on Cairns / trip to Cairns / pitch to travel editor
OR

Write article about Cairns holidays During September Do research on Cairns first

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STORYBOARDING TIPS
1. This is a great tool if you know lots of tasks you need to do, but arent yet sure how they fit together. 2. Put each task you can identify onto separate 3x5 card (or even a post-it note). 3. If you are at the stage of knowing quite a bit, you can follow the first example above, with lots of info about your task. If not, use example 2 or even 3 as your guide. (You can always add more detail later!) 4. If you know there is more to do, or an element that isnt clear, but dont know what it is, use question marks. 5. Pictures or diagrams can be useful. 6. Once you have a big pile of cards, organise them in the way that works best for YOUR project - either in modules or timelines, or...?. Spread them out and move them around until some sense of order emerges. 7. You can stick them on a cork board (or on the wall if they are post-it notes) so you can have them both in modules and timelines at the same time, a bit like a graph chart with modules down the side and time frames across the bottom. 8. Or you can organise them in piles based on when they need to be done, then just work through each pile in its allotted time frame.
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4. keeping it going
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Urgent!
I

Not!Urgent
II
! ! ! ! ! ! (FOCUS)! Preparation/planning! Prevention! Values!clarification! Exercise! Relationship"building! True!recreation/relaxation!

Important!

! ! ! ! !

(MANAGE)! Crisis! Medical!emergencies! Pressing!problems! Deadline"driven!projects! Last"minute!preparations! for!scheduled!activities!

Quadrant!of!Necessity!

Quadrant!of!Quality!&!Personal! Leadership!

III

IV
! ! ! ! ! ! (AVOID)! Trivia,!busywork! Junk!mail! Some!phone! messages/email! Time!wasters! Escape!activities! Viewing!mindless!TV! shows!
Quadrant!of!Waste

Not!Important!
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! ! ! ! !

(AVOID)! Interruptions,!come!calls! Some!mail!&!reports! Some!meetings! Many!pressing!matters! Many!popular!activities!

Quadrant!of!Deception

your personal

environments

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