Personal Productivity: How to Achieve Your Creative Goals
Distractions and Derailers
A course by Jeff Fajans , Creative Performance and Leadership Coach
About the video: Distractions and Derailers
Overview
“Do you ever sit down to make progress on your creative goals only to look up hours later and realize you’ve spent the whole time just watching YouTube videos or endlessly scrolling through Facebook? Don’t let distractions hold you back from achieving your creative goals. In this lesson, I'll show you how to identify the external distractions in your life that are draining your attention. We will also see how to develop a plan to eliminate or manage them.”
In this video lesson Jeff Fajans addresses the topic: Distractions and Derailers, which is part of the Domestika online course: Personal Productivity: How to Achieve Your Creative Goals. Learn to create a momentum system to help you stay motivated by prioritizing your goals and overcoming creative blocks with confidence.
Partial transcription of the video
“Distractions and Derailers In the last lesson, we talked about how to build your external creative support team to accelerate your momentum. In this lesson, we'll talk about how to eliminate distractions and derailers. Have you ever sat down to focus on making progress on your big creative goal, only to look up two hours later and realize you spent the whole time going down YouTube rabbit holes? That's never happened to you, right? Of course not. Creativity is all about the quality of your attention. If your attention is fragmented or distracted, the quality of your creativity will suffer. ...”
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Course summary for: Personal Productivity: How to Achieve Your Creative Goals
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Jeff Fajans
A course by Jeff Fajans
Jeff Fajans is a creative coach from Dallas, Texas. He received a PhD in Positive Organizational Psychology at Claremont Graduate University, where he studied under the author of Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. He is currently based in Denver, Colorado, where he is a full-time creative leadership coach for clients in creative industries around the world.
Throughout his career, he has helped clients like marketing executives, CEOs, startup founders, filmmakers, and artists reach their creative goals. He has worked as Head of Talent and Organization Development for agencies like Midnight Oil, IMAGINE, and QuiteOften. Jeff is also a passionate musician, and has been a guitar player and music creator for the past 25 years.
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