Detail from a sketchnote-in-progress I’m making of an article in Harvard Business Review on “Better Brainstorming.” I liked it so much, I wanted to capture it in a visual note! I’ll share the finished product on my blog, and a summary of the process on my podcast.
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What people may not understand is that making visual notes and LIVE capture are separate skills. I could make visual notes all day long, but it might take me HOURS! In a live capture situation, you don’t HAVE hours—you have RIGHT NOW to get what was said the moment before down on paper, while still listening for what is being said RIGHT NOW.
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It goes way beyond drawing and writing neatly. The ability to listen and process information, and RETAIN that information while processing the information stream that’s continuing to flow—that is ninja skill stuff!
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Right now I’m giving myself permission to practice ANY skill in the skill set (layout, drawing, lettering, listening, retention… etc. etc. etc.) In a live facilitation, you’re doing the equivalent of juggling 5 balls at once, but before you can juggle 5 balls, you have to learn to toss and catch ONE ball successfully!
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Drawing sketchnotes like this—which I penciled in first and have spent hours on, rather than improvising in a live setting—is all part of the process. I’m practicing layout/composition; contrast; lettering; drawing; shading… A plethora of skills! Just not the skills associated with live capture.
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All in good time.
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Drawing out what my consultancy, Creative Sandbox Solutions™, offers. Because it’s easier to understand when you can see it.
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Different flavors of “scared” from another prompt from the April Fooling with Faces and Forms creative challenge inside the Creative Sandbox Community.
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I’m so grateful to my community members for getting us started with these monthly creative challenges. Having these prompts is personally inspiring and motivating for ME, but this wasn’t a “top down” idea, it was something that came up in one of our live calls, from MEMBERS. I polled the community to see if others were also interested in the idea, and when three members stepped forward to rotate hosting the challenges, BOOM, we were ON!
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This is how we roll: the power of the community is our MEMBERS. 🖍
Earlier this month someone mentioned that she’s participating in a postcard swap, and another member said, “Hey, we could do a Creative Sandbox postcard swap!” So we brainstormed on THAT call how to make that happen, and we’ll be adding postcard swaps starting next month. 🖍
Creativity breeds creativity. Generosity breeds generosity. I’ll be opening the doors to new members in June—stay tuned! And get on the invite list at http://bit.ly/2pPbRDZ
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Hat tip to @hey.karyn for the idea that inspired this cartoon—perhaps my first ever! I had fun with this. 😊
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Tell me, do you relate? Which flavor of procrastination are YOU today? Or most frequently? I can tell you I mostly avoid Pinterest like the plague because it is so dangerous for me! And ever since I moved my Creative Sandbox Community OFF of Facebook, I’ve spent a lot less time there, though I still belong to a ton of Groups, so I check in every so often—just not multiple times a day like it used to be when my Community was there!
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Now my go-to procrastination-of-choice is Instagram, for sure. And email. 🖍
But much of my non-Deep-Work time goes to individual communities I belong to—my own Creative Sandbox Community, hosted on @mightynetworks, along with a few others, like @CoCommercial and @loublaser’s community, AndThriving.net. 🖍
So it’s not that I’m spending less time on social media, it’s just that it’s *smaller*, private social media, rather than Big Brand (Big Brother?) social media. The spaces are quieter—less “noisy”, no ads, no political BS—and the conversations are deep and meaningful, focused around specific topics I’m interested in.
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It’s deeply satisfying!
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So really, those social networks don’t even qualify as procrastination. They are part of what sustains me.
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Sketching out ideas. .
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