And Work-Life BalanceIn the life of a creative, what role does structure play? Can structure help to achieve a healthier work-life balance? Can too much structure be a bad thing?
In creative fields, while creativity often thrives in flexibility, a certain level of structure is necessary to achieve results. In this article, we'll explore some frameworks to help enhance your productivity, reduce stress, and maintain well-being. Structured or Free Flowing? I suppose as in all things there's a balance. While structure provides a clear framework and routine for predictability, creative Flow allows for spontaneity and openness to new ideas, but are these two forces in opposition? It depends on how you look at it. Thinking about these concepts in the context of time and energy, I might imagine the idea of structure as a container in which blocks of free-flowing creativity are placed. Imagine you've blocked out some time. In this block of time, you have removed distractions and can focus solely on your creative process. In this way, Structure might provide you with some stability, as long as you can get the creative juices flowing. The creativity might take a moment to build, but once it starts to flow, you'll be glad you blocked out the structured time. If Structure is ordered, how does it balance with the freedom of unrestricted exploration that is often necessary when doing creative work? What if the structure can serve as a tool to enhance the creative component and not a limitation, what might that look like? Imagine you've blocked off your creative time, it has allowed you to focus on something else for the rest of the day right? But suddenly, as it always does, The Inspiration strikes. It's not exactly your blocked-off creative time, is it? what do you do? Here’s where the idea of structure comes into play. There are a few elements to having an ordered approach to structure things in a way to works to your benefit, some of these are managing time, and others are actual tools to help you capture ideas. I've heard a saying that I use often. "if you can capture an idea on paper, you don't have to store it in your head." Now, you have that inspiration and you write it down, maybe you record a quick voice memo. now you have it ready for you during your creative block. It only took a second and now you can focus on the task at hand. |
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