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
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...
No. 163 | By Christine Carron
Do you have fun getting your creative work done? If not, your productivity could be suffering.
Growing research shows that the way we engage in our work impacts how fast we get that work done. It even impacts our ability to get our creative work done at all. Bob Nel...
No. 162 | By Christine Carron
One of my favorite poems is To Be of Use by Marge Piercy*. The poem starts with a simple declaration—The people I love the best / jump into work head first. The poem pays homage to the very human yearning for work “that is real.”Â
I’ve always found the imagery in the ...
No. 157 | By Christine Carron
When you think about being productive, what comes to mind? Perhaps phrases like buckle down or crack the whip flit through your brain. Or you start mapping out a time and task schedule that is so intensive you maintain it for a week at most—which is when you cry Uncle!...
No. 146 | By Christine Carron
When writers start working with me, I have them respond to a series of statements, indicating how true—or not true—each statement is for them. One of the statements asks if they are satisfied with their writing progress.Â
Most writers disagree with that statement, som...
No. 142 | By Christine Carron
Once upon a time, I stood up in a personal growth workshop, filled with about two hundred other women, and stated that I had never been on a date. I was in my thirties.Â
I still have a twinge of embarrassment about that moment. It was not an accurate statement, but it...
No. 137 | By Christine Carron
At the end of last year, I decided to do some strategic thinking activities for Goodjelly. I wanted to take all the clarity I’d gained by walking the talk of this endeavor—both through the weekly blogging I’d done for two years and through welcoming my first cohort of ...
No. 132 | By Christine Carron
In one of my entrepreneurial groups, members are enthusiastically swapping prompts they’ve fed into ChatGPT in order to speed up content generation. Prompts to direct the tool to: brainstorm ideas, organize thoughts, draft marketing copy, etc. One entrepreneur said tha...
No. 127 | By Christine Carron
A tennis lesson for primary school kids was in progress on the community courts at a local park. Scads of six- and seven-year-olds were practicing forehands, running drills, and one boy kept swinging his left leg around whenever he took his turn. “This isn’t ballet cla...
No. 122 | By Christine Carron
Many years ago when I was in a workshop taught by famed high wire walker Philippe Petit, I wrote down something he said about himself: “I'm not a strong man, but I'm strong in the nervous system.” He tapped his head with his index finger when he said, “nervous system.”...
No. 117 | By Christine Carron
Sometimes when I am reading a book, a phrase grabs hold of me. I internally experience a deep-bellied “Yes!” That’s what happened when I read a line in Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull’s Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiratio...
