The Goodjelly Blog
By Christine Carron
This blog post is landing on Goodjelly’s four-year anniversary. (Wahoo!) One of the constants on this grand adventure has been my mission to communicate the truth that the most effective way to get your creative work done is to have a process for getting that work done that is t...
By Christine Carron
With the end of the year fast approaching, you may be feeling an increased intensity to get as many of your creative goals for this year done as you can. In addition, you probably have holiday activities and commitments either to pull off or simply participate in. Hopefully, all...
By Christine Carron
There are over two hundred bones and six hundred muscles in the human body. There are also multiple types of joints and ranges of motions that create an array of different types of possible movement: flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, protrusion, retrusion, elevation, dep...
By Christine Carron
There are two important truths about productivity that are key to creating unstoppable flow. First, productivity has more than one speed. Two, we each get to decide what is the right pace for us at any given moment.
In many productivity circles, however, what I just put forth t...
By Christine Carron
Are you stingy when it comes to claiming creative wins? If so, you’re not alone. It’s a common phenomenon. Unfortunately, celebration miserliness has a negative impact on creative productivity.
Despite celebration stinginess being very (very) common, most of us don’t perceive ...
By Christine Carron
Does your art matter? And by art, I mean whatever creative endeavor you practice. That could be writing, or painting, or quality assurance, or dog training, or jujitsu, or anything. We are human beings with awesome brains and applying those brains in any context, in my book, is ...
By Christine Carron
Unstoppable creative flow requires both structure and spaciousness. Most productivity approaches focus on the structure. They propose—and in some cases insist—that consistent forward momentum is only possible if you force yourself into repeating patterns that you must follow to ...
By Christine Carron
A powerful action you can take on behalf of your creative adventure is to embrace clarity. Clarity sometimes shows up as grand flashes of insight. Those are valuable experiences and to be cherished, for sure. There is, however, a humbler clarity, built day in and day out—even mo...
By Christine Carron
A few weeks ago, I had to manage a seriously heightened level of creative work. Deadlines for my corporate client. Deadlines for some classes I am taking. And deadlines for delivering to the folks in Goodjelly’s programs. All was fabulously fun and engaging work, but for a few w...
By Christine Carron
When you think about process in context of getting your creative work done, I'm guessing words like “groovy,” “fun” and “wheeee!” don’t pop into mind. Many folks associate process (and productivity) with concepts like restriction, buckling down, boring, and even kicks in the pat...
By Christine Carron
If you want unstoppable creative flow, you have to put YOU into the equation of how you’re getting your creative work done.Â
Traditional productivity approaches bamboozle us into thinking that the context of us is irrelevant to our forward momentum. It’s as if the proponents of...
No. 165 | By Christine Carron
Imagine for a moment that you had to read a three-hundred page book that had no punctuation, no capitalization, no line breaks, no chapter breaks, no chapter headers, and no page numbers. Just page after page after page of unbroken text. One long beast of a run-on sent...
