#107 - Planning Doesn’t Kill Creativity — It Protects It

About this episode

In this episode, Saskia de Feijter discusses how planning can enhance creativity, sharing her methods for managing tasks and energy.

Send us Fan Mail - How I separate ideas from tasks, plan by energy, and keep marketing simple - Planning doesn’t have to kill creativity. In this episode, I share how I plan with a neurodivergent, creative brain—lightly. Using examples from some of my clients, I separate ideas from tasks, choose one daily priority, and use soft time blocks guided by energy instead of the clock. I talk about how Bullet Journaling® supports me (without needing pretty pages), how I turned my phone into a t...

People in this episode

Host: Saskia de Feijter

Topics covered

• creativity
• planning
• neurodivergence
• marketing
• time management

Keywords

• creativity
• planning
• neurodivergent
• marketing
• Bullet Journaling
• time blocks
• energy management

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Products: Bullet Journaling®

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