9 Organizational Tips For Every Creative Head
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- July 9, 2020
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Often, you hear the word ‘Disorganized’ getting associated with ‘Creative’. It’s not an accurate association as much as its a stereotype. In all seriousness, being organized is a skill. Now it may not be something you’re born with, but it can be learned gradually.

Everyone nowadays likes to call themselves creative. But calling oneself creative and doing something creative are two different things. And to do the latter, being organized is a very important asset. To be organized, one has to have focus and the know-how of utilizing their time productively. In this blog, we share a few organizational tips for every creative head to follow.
1. Get Rid of Distractions
The first thing to do to learn about focusing on your priorities is to get rid of all the distractions. Since you already spend enough time on the internet during working hours, limit your screen time when you go home. Read that book you’ve been procrastinating on, make the meal you’re craving, and spend time with the people who wait for you to be free.

Even at your workplace, organize your space in a way that all the distracting things are pushed back and things you need are easily accessible. These are all the tactics to practice having a focus, and although it’ll be hard in the first few weeks, in time it will become a blessing.
2. Keep Your Workspace Clean

Not everything works for everyone. Practice a few ways to get organized, if one or two tactics don’t work, a third one might. E.g. if someone likes keeping all their data in a binder, another person may prefer working without binders. Organizing doesn’t mean you change who you are as a person, rather bring your old techniques of working into practice in such a way that you’re more productive than before.
3. Prepare a Plan

Plan out your day in advance. And if a task you’re doing in a particular moment doesn’t feel right, then work on another task. Just do what keeps you motivated. Organize your time and plan out how you’re supposed to complete each task, but also make sure you’re getting your ‘me time’ to avoid feeling any burnout. It’s organized chaos, but it helps in the long run when it comes to your creative process.
4. Develop Cross Team Learning

A major requirement for your team to be creative is to hire individuals who differ from each other in personality and skills. The more diverse a team, the stronger it has chances of becoming. Although it’s also important that your team members understand this value and can respect each other’s differences.
Working in an environment with individuals different than you, who come from different backgrounds than yours make it easier to understand everyone’s approach to creativity and also makes a better space to bond with each other.
5. Look Into Organizational Hacks

Even if you don’t intend to follow them, researching some new organizational hacks can give you new and innovative ideas of how you want to take your team forward. Maybe some hacks you look into will give you the clarity you’ve been searching for all this time and couldn’t think of due to your mind being pre-occupied.
Research helps open up your creative bulb to new ideas and that in-turn makes you come up with newer strategies and brainstorming sessions to introduce in teamwork.
6. Motivation Building Exercises

Introduce some new and creative practices to keep yourself motivated. Take some time away from the screens to read a book or play scrabble or any other mind-challenging game. Go for a walk outside or get up and do some house chores (if you’re a freelancer or working from home). Sometimes, introducing fresh activities in your routine helps with any form of creative block you have.
7. Follow Clear Directions

Make sure the directions you’re following for any task as clear to you. If you don’t understand what you’re doing, you will find it difficult to complete. Working with team members, you need to ensure clarity on what you require of them and vice versa. Confusions give rise to frustrations and no one can perform while they’re frustrated. Clear directions and understanding keep you motivated to work creatively on your tasks.
8. Take Breaks

Burning yourself out with work isn’t going to help much in the creative process. Make sure you and members of your team get breaks during a day to clear your heads and get a little room to breathe before getting busy with work again.
Working one task after another is good to get fast results, but when you feel exhausted, keep the laptop aside, put your head back and take a few deep breaths, or go for a 5-minute walk outside if possible. Just don’t suffocate yourself with work, because it will only jeopardize your creativity.
9. Be Realistic with Time

It’s important to meet your goals on time, but you also need to make sure your goals are aligned realistically. One single person can not write 6 blogs in a 6-hour time-span if they intend to be accurate and reliable on the information they’re sharing. This, and every other task, needs time to get done. Especially keeping in mind the high-quality creative success that’s required. Make sure you have realistic expectations of when and how you and your team will achieve those goals.
You need to look at the resources you have at your disposal and how much more effort is required to reach where you want to be. A clear analysis of all these factors will make you determine how much time you need to achieve which objective. And that will yield your results for you in a more productive and less stress-free way.
Whichever creative field you’re working in, being organized will help you reach a long way to achieving the success you want and more. Filling your brain with ideas, hacks, tips, writing down things you want to try, studying your competition; all these things help make you stay organized. It’s how and what you prepare that helps you create something successful.