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THE

PRODUCTIVE
ARTIST
BY A L L A N M C K AY

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO MASTERING TIME


AND ACTUALLY GETTING THINGS DONE!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE PRODUCTIVE ARTIST
BY A L L A N M C K AY

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CREATING YOUR MORNING RITUAL .........................................................................PAGES 1-5


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10 KILLER TIME-MANAGEMENT TIPS FOR ARTISTS ........................................ PAGES 6-12


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EXTREME WORKFLOW AND PRODUCTIVITY HACKS ......................................PAGES 13-21


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KILLER TOOLS TO HELP YOU GET SHIT DONE ..................................................PAGES 22-29


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EVERY TOOL I USE TO 10X MY DAY .....................................................................PAGES 30-34


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3 GREAT CAREER STRATEGIES TO LEARN FROM YOUR BOSS .................... PAGES 35-40
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BONUS! ALLAN MCKAY’S INTERVIEW WITH PRODUCTIVITY EXPERT


AND BESTSELLING AUTHOR DAVID ALLEN.......................................................PAGES 41-44
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CONCLUSION.......................................................................................................................PAGE 45

TOOLS AND LINKS .............................................................................................................PAGE 46

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CREATING YOUR
MORNING RITUAL
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WHAT’S A RITUAL? Having a habit means creating a sequence of


steps that your repeat long enough to become a
I really like the word “ritual”. It sounds a lot more habit. You want to be able to wake up and know
solid, like something that requires a commitment. exactly what you need to do that day. It’s pretty
These are more core foundations I want to go common to wake up groggy in the morning, look
through. It’s your recipe, your sequence. at your emails while you’re still in bed. As soon as
you get up, your day has already started. You’re
The goal is to build habits and get those habit on not making time for yourself to get things done.
autopilots. Focus on creating extra time so that Distractions happen at the end of the day as well,
you can focus on the goals you set. A lot of like zoning out to Netflix or television.
people just want shortcut techniques, a
million-dollar email to make them a lot of money. If you want to learn a new technique or move to a
We all have our own journey and it’s about different industry, you need to have time. Pushing
enjoying it: work to live, instead of the other way yourself to create that extra time is difficult to do.
around. It’s about balance and making time for It’s up to you to de-touch from your distractions
yourself is crucial. and get things done.

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It eventually becomes a second habit, a ritual. Your
brain eventually programs itself. It memorizes
triggers and goes on autopilot. It allows you to
Every single successful evaluate situations without going too much into it.
person I know has You start making unconscious decisions. These are
similar habits: micro-habits.

Good Habits vs. Bad Habits

We all have good and bad habits. You need to


identify when you do have bad habits. If you
identify them, it’s easier to make changes. We get
habits from other people.

They get up at the


same time.

“You’re the average of the 5 most


successful people you spend the
most time with.”

They do things that


they find relaxing.
You’re the average of the 5 most successful
people you spend the most time with. That’s why
you want to surround yourself with successful
people. That makes you inspired. You need to
identify people from whom you’re borrowing bad
habits. Identify your good habits and try replicating
those instead.
They figure out what
they want to do that day. Identify your habits in the morning: Do you check
your phone or Facebook? Do you check your emails
while in bed? If you can identify your bad habits,
you can eliminate those.
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Start a Morning Ritual

A morning ritual takes 30 days to stay. At the end, you become more productive. If you check your
emails first thing in the morning, you’re making your day about other people’s problems.

Some morning rituals to try:

Make your bedroom a place where you sleep -- not Make sure to have no blue light 30 minutes
spend time on the phone. That way you’re not before you go to sleep (examples of blue light:
checking emails first thing in the morning. iPhone, television, etc.)

Sleep is critical. In visual effects, we glorify not Sleep with sleep plugs, especially if you have
getting enough sleep. That doesn’t make you a loud neighbors.
hard worker or a badass. I believe in sleep debt:
all the hours of sleep that you don’t get -- they
eventually accumulate. Use a sleep mask.

If you can’t get enough sleep, make sure that the Keep your window blinds open, so that your
sleep you do get -- is quality sleep. There is a lot body can produce melatonin. When the sun
of sleep hacks you can look up. I’ve rises, you wake up feeling better.
experimented with this a lot.

Wear an up24 wrist bracelet: It monitors what


kind of sleep you get.

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Drink a lot of water before sleep. because I had so much energy. Caution: You will
never get used to it! But you will feel energized
every morning. You want to get your body to shake.
Avoid alcohol before sleep. Don’t try to make yourself warm right after. Let your
body return to its temperature naturally.

Eat celery or almond butter before. Those foods * An alternative: Shower in the morning, then
put nutrients back in your body. switch it to cold water.

Try ice baths*: Put 2-3 bags of ice into cold water Plan your day the night before. Writing things
and spend 20 minutes in it, to get your body to down is a powerful tool. Before you leave work
circulate blood. Do it when you wake up the at the end of the day, write down what you need
morning and then again before you go to sleep. to do in the morning. By writing those tasks
Athletes do this a lot. When I started doing that, I down, they will be out of your mind. When you
went from not being able to hold my head up in the get back to the office in the morning, you’ll know
mornings from exhaustion to running to work exactly what you need to do.

Other Time-Saving Hacks

Eliminate your distractions. Assign a time for each task. By assigning times, it
makes you aware of how long something is going
Batch tasks together: Make coffee and breakfast to take.
at the same time, for example.
Monitor those tasks and how long they actually
Write down everything you want to accomplish in take. It allows you to accurately gage how much
the mornings. time you have allotted. If you’ve over-scheduled
yourself, you’ll see it.
Do the tasks all in one set.

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Get a timer and watch it as you’re working on a happened. That’s the best way to treat failure.
task. It keeps you focused. Look at it as a new opportunity to learn and
get better.
Monitor your distractions but don’t beat
yourself up when you do go off your time The earlier you get up, the more time you have to
limit. Figure out why that distraction get stuff done. Treat sleep as a reward.

Mornings are Opportunities You will have 3-4 hours to focus on yourself in the
mornings. Identify a goal you have and pursue
What you gain from all of this -- is more time. For that. You can get through a lot of material really
me, nothing happens in the mornings and there quickly. It’s all about creating time and focusing
are no distractions. I prefer to go into the office on bettering yourself:
before everyone else gets there (and the render
farms are free!) I leave at 6:00 or 7:00 at night
and I have time to spend time with the people I
care about. Taking advantage of the mornings --
is a powerful tool.
Learning new skills;

Going to the gym;

Writing networking emails;

Looking for your dream job;

Spending time with your loved ones.

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10 KILLER
TIME-MANAGEMENT TIPS
FOR ARTISTS
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These killer time management tips cover anything from identifying your personal time wasters to creating
your flow -- all to make sure that you get your work done successfully and get home to spend time with
your loved ones or to spend it on your own personal projects.

NEGOTIATE STAGGERED HOURS

See whether it’s possible to come in two hours


earlier than everyone else each day, and then leave
two hours early, provided all of your work is done.
You will get mixed responses from management,
sell it to them as something to try out for two weeks.
If you are in fact more productive in that time -- push
for a permanent change.

DRAW UP A DAILY SCHEDULE

Plan your day before you begin work:

Write down everything you need to do on a


piece of paper. This means you can’t forget
anything, and having a physical list is a
constant reminder.

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Prioritize those tasks. You want no more than
two primary goals for the day.

SET REALISTIC GOALS

The hardest part of having a to-do list is actually


marking things off. Don’t just push tasks forward a
few days if you don’t get to them: It’s much better
to schedule tasks realistically.

So how can you tell if you have too many items on


your list?

Try writing down a realistic – or slightly


generous – amount of time next to each one.
Writing an email usually takes 10, but phone
calls sometimes go on for 30 minutes.

If you realize you have two or three days’


worth of work written down, remove less
important tasks from the list – or even
notify your Supervisor to ask for work to be
taken off your plate.

“Never burden your day with


unrealistic expectations and harm
your productivity.”

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IDENTIFY YOUR TIME WASTERS

There’s a cool app called RescueTime that monitors what you’re doing on your computer. At the end
of the day, it tells you how much time you spent in each application.

Look at a typical working day, and identify When you need to focus, you can tell
where you’re wasting time. Common RescueTime to block distractions
time-wasters include social media and email. (you can specify what counts as a distraction)
for the next two hours, or prevent you from
browsing non-work-related websites.

Available for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android, RescueTime tracks how much time you spend in
different apps to identify time-wasters. The Lite version is free; a Premium account is $9/month.

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DON’T MULTITASK
(BECAUSE YOU CAN’T!)

Rather than always having several web browser


windows, email and databases open alongside
your art software, focus on one thing at a time.
Get one job further on, then while you’re waiting
for feedback, jump onto the next job. While
working this way, your brain is able to focus on a
task, rather than struggling to vaguely keep up
with all the different things going on.

BATCH UP NON-ART TASKS

Making time to focus on a job is all about Meetings can be another huge time sink. See
batching up other tasks: if there are ones you can skip without
drastically affecting your day. This can be a
Batch emails into one hour, once or twice a day. sensitive subject, so try presenting it as being
able to get more done if you can group all of
Make Facebook a recreational thing at 4:00 the meetings together, or only attend specific
p.m. when you can spend 30 minutes on it parts of a meeting (the ones relevant to you).
and enjoy it, rather than sneaking it in every If a production co-ordinator is taking notes,
time the boss isn’t looking. suggest you just get those notes.

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STRUCTURE YOUR DAY TO
CREATE PERIODS OF FLOW

As artists, we love to get into flow, to get into


the zone. When we do, it’s magic, but we only
get there a couple of times a day, and it’s
difficult not to be interrupted during those
periods. By eliminating distractions, people get
more done in those four hours than they
normally would in ten hours.

To create periods of flow:

Try assigning two two-hour blocks each HAVE YOUR REFERENCE


day where you only focus on work. MATERIAL ON HAND
Get into the habit of continually dumping your
reference stuff into a Dropbox folder so that
it’s always on hand.

Save your work there, too: If you need to


Put the phone on silent and do not allow present to a client, you can waste a day trying
any distractions! to de-archive materials.

Save WIPs: Being able to show your


Supervisor how work is progressing can take
the pressure off of you. Some people
genuinely don’t realize all of the steps a job
Another way this works is to do 60 minutes has to go through.
of work, then take a 15-minute break, then
do another 60 minutes of work, then a You can also use OneNote, now a free app for
30-minute break, and keep repeating that Windows, Mac OS X, iOS and Android, to
pattern throughout the day. store all of your information.

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BLOCK OUT THE WORLD

Once you begin your work, block out all


possible distractions:

Turn off your phone.

Consider investing in a pair of


noise-cancelling headphones.

You could also try Focus@Will, a website


that plays repetitive music designed to get
you into your flow.

SET REMINDERS AND COUNTDOWNS


Get a stop watch. Have one at your desk at get distracted. These can be anything you
most times. Whenever you start a task, give want. “Get back to work” might stop you from
yourself a time to completion, set a stop answering emails. “Is this necessary?”
watch, and put it in front of you. When questions is spending 20 minutes on
you’re conscious that it’s ticking down, you’ll correcting an image is being productive.
tend to get a lot more done. It works far
better than looking at the clock every five Have the home page on your laptop set up
minutes. with a widget counting down to 6:00 p.m. It’s
a constant reminder that you only have X
Try setting reminders on your phone or online number of hours left to complete all of the
calendar for times of day when you tend to tasks you have been assigned.

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SPEND THE LAST 15 PLAN OUT THE NEXT DAY
MINUTES OF THE DAY
WRAPPING UP Write down a plan of attack for the next day.
If you know that you need to find this reference
and talk to that person when you get in, in the
morning, you avoid the process of mental
de-fragging. You can just switch your brain on
and resume where you left off.

At the end of the day, spend 15 minutes


wrapping up. Part of this should involve telling
people what you’ve done that day. Send out an
email saying, “This is what I’ve worked on, this
is the location of the files, and these are the
people I’ve contacted.”

Lots of artists find this odd. Either they don’t


want to bother their Supervisors, or they want
to hide from them until everything is done. But
if your Supervisor doesn’t want the email, they
can just delete it. Producers, however, love this
kind of information! The more they can see
where things are, the more comfortable they
will be with you.

Keeping records of everything you’ve done also


forces you to get out of the trenches and
mentally process the information. Own your
mistakes. If there were screw-ups, learn from
them next time.

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EXTREME WORKFLOW AND
PRODUCTIVITY HACKS
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This is a hands-on advice and a great opportunity to


get a lot more done out of your typical day.

BRAINSTORM BEFORE YOU


START YOUR WORK

I tend to think about my work a lot before I actually


get started. This comes with experience: The more
you can ask questions and foresee any
troubleshooting, the more you can anticipate
those issues. In the long run, your productivity will
suffer a lot if you hit a wall. If you anticipate these
issues, your project won’t get derailed.

It’s better to ask all the questions, even if they seem


silly. Because visual effects are so time consuming,
it’s worth spending 10 extra minutes talking /
thinking about your 3D task. It will put a lot of
confidence in you because you’re taking
responsibility by taking charge of the project:

Get answers from clients to talk about what they want.


Raise questions that the clients may not be anticipating.
Walk clients through the shot, so both parties understand what the final shot needs to look like. By
locking this stuff down, you both get on the same page.
I end up painting stills or doing animatics. Even if they’re simple models, they to communicate what I
intend to do. I will paint over those frames to give them a visual. It’s also a great mental process to
figure out where I’m going to go with the design.
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Discuss the size of it, the framing, etc. This will save you time as well, because it saves on future
revisions that come from miscommunication or lack of communication in the beginning.
Check if you’re working in the right frame lengths: Is it 25 or 30 frames per second?
Check on the unit scale (metrics, centimeters, etc).
Check on the lens information, handles -- everything! You’re going to get your task done right before it’s
due. These little glitches will derail your whole shot.
I build a tool that alerts me if anything is off. Go how ever far you can go to make sure the projects is smooth.

MATCH YOUR BIORHYTHM TO that you make. The more you can communicate,
YOUR ENTHUSIASM the more you can synchronize.

You want your energy and enthusiasm levels to WRAP EVERYTHING AT THE
match. When you start on a project, you’re excited. END OF THE DAY
If you spend days on a project and in the review
you find out it’s going in the wrong direction, your Communication is a huge part of your success.
enthusiasm will start going to go downhill. Your Figure out what you’ve done in a day and
progress will peak when you start accomplishing communicate that via an email. When you leave for
what the client / the director wants, but your the day, production may still be going. Your
enthusiasm might have already gone downhill. communication will keep production updated: tell
them where the assets got emailed. Some people
Asking the right questions ensures that your may think it’s too much information. But in the 11th
progress is happening while your enthusiasm is hours -- when they’re looking for stuff -- they’ve
still there. Make sure your minimize the mistakes already received that information from you.
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If you over-communicate:

There is less room for error.


It shows how responsible you can be.
It’s a great paper trail for you. Everyone is
aware of what you’ve been doing.
If management doesn’t pay attention to
what you’re doing, they will become aware
of your workload and accomplishments. It
showcases your progress.

GET IN THE ZONE

Flow is when you’re in the zone. If I set 6 hours per


day to have uninterrupted flow -- or two blocks of 3
hours -- I know I can get a lot done. There is a thing
called 30-60-30. If you can work a 30-minute block,
a 60-minute block and 30-minute block, you can be
in the zone:

During that time, there is no email,


no Facebook, no distractions.
Set a timer and set it to 2-3 hours
of dedicated time to one project. As
you go, you’ll start seeing the timer
ticking down, you’ll start working
harder. It helps you recalibrate
when you’re slipping.

By having those three sets, you can do other stuff


in between. Allow yourself moments of fun.

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USE TOOLS TO TRACK YOUR
In the long run, it gives you more
PROGRESS confidence. And if you start meeting your
own deadlines, it builds your producers’ and
I like having tools that help me stay conscious of clients’ confidence in you.

my progress and of my distractions. Being able to


monitor that stuff helps me be aware.

RescueTime allows you to track everything that


you’ve been doing on your computer. It’s really
effective. If you want to get in the zone, it can
block other websites (social media, etc.) for that
amount of time.
Time Doctor will tell you when you’re not doing
something. It will ask if you’re on a break. If you
start browsing, it will ask you if it’s work related.
It holds you accountable. (It’s also great for freelancing when you have to log your hours.)

You can use both of these websites at the same time. They don’t conflict. They also help you track how
much time you spend on each task. That way, when you plan your schedule, you can predict how much a
task demands.

BATCH YOUR TASKS


TOGETHER

As artists, we need a bit of time to get into the flow.


If you have constant interruptions, it’s much harder.
Here are the steps: OUTSOURCE SOME OF YOUR
TASKS
Write down everything you need to do that day.
Batch the similar tasks together: going to the
It may sound like a slightly frivolous topic. I look at
bank and grabbing lunch, answering your
my worth -- and at my deadlines -- and what stuff I
emails and returning calls. That frees up time to
don’t need to get done myself. I can pay someone
focus on art related tasks.
$8-10 to get that errand / task done, so that I can
The cool thing that when you start answering
get my work done. Not doing my work would end
emails in one batch, you start doing that quicker
up costing me more.
too.

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There is a service called Task Rabbit. ELIMINATE THE TIME DRAIN OF
Having a virtual assistant is helpful for services MEETINGS
here and there.
It’s important to attend review sessions:
You can even hire people to look for jobs for you
and get your cover letters ready.
You notice what kind of style your Supervisor
might like.
Try experimenting with this. It will get you into a
You see where the project is going.
managerial mindset of delegating tasks. Freeing up
your time will be really effective!
However, reviews take at least an hour out of your
day. You could ask to get called in when your shot
LET’S TALK ABOUT OVERTIME is being reviewed. Suddenly, you get yourself
another hour. Your Supervisor may also do rounds:
When it’s crunch time, there are so many negative He / she comes to your desk to review your stuff.
things that come with that: chaos, backed-up These are very effective!
render farms, unhappy families. Start coming in
earlier in the morning and doing your overtime
then. The benefits of that are:

By the time everyone else comes into work,


you’ve clocked in several hours of uninterrupted
work, with zero distractions.
The key advantages of coming in before other
people, you also have access to render farms.
(By 3:00 or 4:00 p.m., all render farms tend to
start getting backed up.)
Most of the time, our loved ones -- friends and
family -- want to spend time in the evening, not
mornings. If you get your work done, you can
spend those evening hours with people you
prioritize in your life. KEEP YOUR SUPERVISOR IN
THE LOOP

This is a bit of shift, but it keeps your body clock on If you have 2-3 authorities who are giving you
how it’s meant to be running. You’re getting up in different tasks, find out who your Supervisor is.
the morning and you have your evening hours When other people dump additional tasks on you,
back. your productivity is getting depleted.

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Make sure to communicate with your Supervisor when someone else is giving your another task. That
way everyone will understand what your workload is. Producers may not communicate; but if you don’t
communicate, people may continue layering work on you.

Don’t set yourself up


WRITE DOWN EVERY TASK for failure by creating
an unrealistic
Plan out your day: to-do list.
Every day write down the tasks you need to do on the left
side of the page. Only put down the important things you
need to do.
On the right side of the page, prioritize those!
Batch the minimal tasks together.
Go through each task and estimate how much time it will
take. Allow for windows in case
things go wrong.
If the sum off all the hours comes out to be unrealistic, you need to revise. Take to-do items off your list.

You want the success of accomplishing a task. If you don’t accomplish things, it feels like a bit of failure.

NOTE:
If you’ve been given a task that has an unrealistic completion time, you must communicate that right
away. If you agree to it without speaking up, it’s your responsibility to deliver.

This is also an opportunity to get on the same page of what’s expected. You may think you’re expected to
deliver the entire world, while the client is asking for one small thing.

PARKINSON’S LAW

Parkinson’s law is the adage that “work expands so


as to fill the time available for its completion”. A
task is going to take as long as you’ve assigned to
it. This is something that happens all the time.

This means that you can set mini goals. Sticking to


those goals will allow for successful -- and less
stressful -- completion.
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distractions. If there is chaos, you want to make
sure it’s controlled chaos.

If you have a lot on your plate, ask to be


messaged on chat.
Keep your headphones on. It visually
communicates that you’re focused.
If you get asked out to lunch, batch those
IDENTIFY YOUR TIME WASTERS invitations together. You can all go out together
on Friday.
Using Time Doctor and RescueTime help you track You can take a break while things are rendering.
distractions. The next step is eliminating those Take your friends out then. Do it on your
timeline!

LEARN TO SCRIPT
(See Allan McKay’s Tutorial on Scripting Custom FX Tools)

Scripting has changed my life. A lot of tasks that


require several steps, I can automate. That
eliminates human error and saves me time. It’s a
massive game changer:

It frees up your time.


It changes your salary bracket during contract
negotiations.

I love the power and flexibility of that!

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MANAGE YOUR WORK LIKE A CREATE AN EYE CANDY
PRODUCER FOLDER

Get used to spreadsheets to track your tasks, I have built this as a tool. Anytime I did a play
deadlines and progress. This is a method I started blast or a preview, I would save it on that
using 10 years ago, and it still works these days. directory. That meant I had a copy of
Use ShotGun. I find that to be helpful because I can everything I was working on. When a client
manage 30 different tasks at the same time. If the asks to see something, I don’t need to
spreadsheet is available on Cloud, Supervisors can interrupt my flow. It also means having a
track tasks on their own. You are also able to give copy to see the progress. Whenever I’m in
answers quickly on the status of a task. a rut, I’d review my work so that I could
see what was missing. If I ever to start
from the beginning of the shot, I could
see when I hit a creative plateau. I like
being able to visually identify where
that plateau happened.

“BECOME ACCOUNTABLE FOR YOURSELF. EVEN WHEN YOU’VE BEEN SUCCESSFUL


AT A TASK, IDENTIFY WHAT YOU COULD’VE DONE BETTER. DON’T LOOK AT IT
NEGATIVELY. JUST KEEP PROGRESSING!”

ON MULTITASKING: LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES


DON’T DO IT!
Acknowledge when you’ve made a mistake,
Multitasking is the devil. You’re spinning your identify where you could’ve done better. Become
wheels and you’re not in the flow. If you’re making a accountable for yourself. Even when you’ve been
1% progress on several things, it’s just busy work. successful at a task, identify what you could’ve
Do one thing at a time, finish it and move on. done better. Don’t look at it negatively. Just keep
progressing.

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SET TIMERS

Every two or three hours, have automatic


reminders pop up on my phone: “Are you working?”
“Is the work you’re doing that critical to your goals?”
They recalibrate you and get you back on track.
You can also have a timer that’s counting down the
project to the end day (like a widget with sound
effects from the show 24). That pressure isn’t
meant to derail but to motivate you.
MORE TIPS ON HOW TO GET
INTO A ZONE

You have to get the time to get into the rhythm.


Once it clicks, you’re in the zone and your
productivity starts to spike.

Again, it’s so important to eliminate distractions.


Use noise canceling headphones to help you
concentrate.
Use an app Focus@Will. It features repetitive
music with different modes that helps you stay
in the zone. It will also track your productivity
under different modes, to select the most
suitable one for you.
If you’re right-handed, listening from your left
ear helps you focus more.
Green is a really effective color for
concentration. It’s soothing. You can surround
yourself with that color to increase your
productivity.

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KILLER TOOLS TO HELP
YOU GET SHIT DONE
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These are some common tools I rely on day to day, EMAIL GAME
www.emailgame.baydin.com
like capturing email addresses for potential studios

for which you want to work. If you want to check out I use Email Game which is an extension of Gmail:
the video version of this Podcast (to see these tools www.emailgame.baydin.com to stay on top of my
emails -- in Gmail.
visually), go to www.allanmckay.com/31download.

It figures out how much time it takes to reply to


GOOGLE CALENDAR each message.
www.google.com/calendar It sets a timer, to monitor your reply time.
It counts how many emails are waiting to be
If it’s not in your calendar, it’s not real. By having an
replied to.
online calendar, you can:
It blocks out the other emails. Only the one

Organize your tasks and events. you’re answering remains on the screen.

Track how much time goes to each task.


Visually assign time to a task and see how BOOMERANG
much of it is actually doable. http://www.boomeranggmail.com

Schedule recurring tasks (emails, etc.) for every day.


This is also an extension of Gmail. It’s something I
Send reminders to people, via email.
cannot do without because I get so many emails,
every day. I use this to thin out my email:

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You can thin out the daily Inbox and reschedule batches. It’s a chance to delegate them to
answering the less urgent emails. certain times. You become faster at any task, if
It will take the less pressing email away and you’re doing it repetitively.
resent it to your Inbox later. (It provides a menu When I hit reply, I could schedule a follow up
of time by how much you wish to delay the email as well -- unless the person responds to
response.) the very first one.
It has a calendar button. Typically, when I’m “Send Later” designates sending an email at a
working on emails, I’ll type in the date and time. certain time. For example, Dropbox would
I use Google Calendar to schedule blocks of handle the files, but I would schedule a
time to answer emails and then answer them in follow-up email to my clients via Boomerang.

RAPPORTIVE
https://business.linkedin.com/sales-solutions/sales-navigator/feature-list/sales-navigator-for-gmail

This creates a sidebar which brings up all the LinkedIn information it can find on that person:

Links to his / her Google+. Their LinkedIn profile and bio.


Email history. Any professional connections we share on LinkedIn.
You can also:

Easily connect with the person via LinkedIn.


If you’re talking to a potential customer, you can see where they’re located. That gives you more information.
If you want to apply for a job and you don’t know the email address, you can use the system to find the
address based on the domain. It will take some guessing, but if the email address actually exists,
Rapportive will validate it.

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FOLLOWUP.CC TASK MANAGEMENT APPS
www.followup.cc FOR IPHONE

This emailing program is more for sales. One of its These are basic, swipe-based, gesture based apps
major benefits is you can see when someone has that you can sync everywhere:
read your email. You can also boomerang your
email as well via this tool, just like in Boomerang.
Wunderlist: www.wunderlist.com
Any.do: www.any.do
Clear: www.itunes.apple.com/us/app/clear-task
EVERNOTE
s-reminders-to-do-lists/id493136154?mt=8
www.evernote.com

Having one of these is really useful (but one is


This is a tool I use extensively. It’s essentially a note
more than enough). It gives you a productive check
taking tool that synchronizes with all the other
devices that have Evernote set-up. It can useful for list of your day.

being to organize my notes into one place. It’s free


but it has plug-ins for advanced features.

You can tag everything.


You can organize your notes.
You can share notes and folders.
You can work on things together.
You can mark or circle different areas.
You can scan documents and save them there.
You can screen capture a page and bookmark it
for later.
You can bring up any related notes.

I’ve created templates for every day that I can apply.


I can also drop it into Google Calendar. It’s also
beneficial to do this the night before, so that you’re
consciously aware of what you have to do that day.

AWESOME NOTE
www.bridworks.com/anote

This is an iPhone note taking tool. It helps you


categorize that stuff and you can also synchronize
it with Evernote.
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MAILSTROM You can set it up by degrees of completion.
www.mailstrom.co You can drag the cards to completion folders.
You can share your boards with Supervisors
This can be really cool because I can sort / filter and other people.
my emails by social feeds or time, or popular
subjects. I can then archive the emails accordingly.
I can start to train my filters to send the emails to HIPCHAT
appropriate categories. www.hipchat.com

TRELLO I use this tool for my Live Webinars. It’s free and
www.trello.com you can have designated chatrooms. This is quite
useful because you can share information easily
I’ve spoked about this with Tobin Kirk, Executive among team members. You can have a realtime
Producer for Blind: www.allanmckay.com/22. This conversation which is so beneficial to a team.
is a visual card system for tasks. Rather than trying to call each other or organize
meetings, you can get immediate answers from
You can organize lists. each other.

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TICK TICK FILE SEEK
www.ticktick.com www.fileseek.ca

A tool that provides a simple checklist. This is a tool to search for files or for information
inside a file. If you do any scripting, it’s especially
GROUP ME awesome! It will bring up anything to do with any
www.groupme.com string and show a preview of the file.

If you go into a conference, it’s a great way to DROPBOX


coordinate larger groups of people.
www.dropbox.com

ONE NOTE This one may sound a little crazy. I use Dropbox
www.onenote.com (www.dropbox.com) extensively, especially when
I work remotely. You can upload from Dropbox.
This is Microsoft’s version of Evernote. I use this to You can set up a folder for that -- and you can set
consolidate or segregate information extensively it to do so automatically.
on any projects I’m constantly updating. It’s a Cloud
applicaiton, so I can update stuff from anywhere.
VIMEO
www.vimeo.com
FLIPBOARD
www.flipboard.com
Vimeo has a lot of powerful tools:

I use this to read my news. When I read a headline


Vimeo School has a lot of cool, high quality tutorials.
and decide to bookmark the article for later, I use
Vimeo can be viewed on Apple TV (using AirPlay:
Instapaper or Read It Later:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204289.)
Instapaper: www.instapaper.com It can organize and sort your videos.
Read It Later: www.getpocket.com You can connect your social media to your
Vimeo account. When you upload your stuff to
Vimeo, it posts it to your social media
automatically.

Vimeo Extension to Repeat


(www.chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimeo-
repeat-speed/noonakfaafcdaagngpjehilgegefdima?
hl=en) allows you to loop a Vimeo video, and adjust
the speed of playback.

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FOCUS @ WILL
www.focusatwill.com

This is a repetitive music generating program, to

XMIND play in the background while you work. It loops the


www.xmind.net music. It helps you block out noise and create a
white noise sort of ambience.
This is another mind mapping tool.

You can choose your energy level.


It can track your productivity with every music
WISE STAMP
you choose.
www.wisestamp.com

Email is a chance to have free ad space and you


MIND MEISTER
can encapsulate information about you: social
www.mindmeister.com
media, promotion, etc. This gives you an intelligent
customized email signature. It plugs into your
This creates mind maps which help you organize
Gmail. It’s easy to construct.
the things you want to do. When I wrote the
Overtime vs. Productivity article
RESCUE TIME (http://www.allanmckay.com/overtime-vs-producti
www.rescuetime.com vity-pt-1/), I used it to visually organize my ideas
into a structured article.
This program keeps track of everything you’re
doing and all the program you use. It can also
block the sites you find distracting. It has a free and You can also share this with other people.

a commercial version. You can use it for presentations.

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TIME DOCTOR SPEAK IT
www.timedoctor.com https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/speak-it-text-to-
speech/id308629295?mt=8
This allows you to track time easily. You can set a
timer. If you are inactive for more than 30 minutes, Speak It is available in Google Chrome. It can
it stops the timer. It has a free and a commercial select a text and speak it back, which saves you
version. You can use that to track your time for time from reading the article.
billing your clients.
HEAD SPACE
QUICK VOICE www.headspace.com
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quickvoice-reco
rder/id284675296?mt=8 This is a meditation app for people who are new to
meditation. If you can meditate for 10 minutes a
This is an iPhone app that is a voice recorder. It can day, it’s great!
sync with Evernote, Dropbox or other apps. You
can record dailies or conversations, and you can
review those recordings later.

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MINT.COM GIFTS.COM
www.mint.com www.gifts.com

This is a tool for managing your finances. It tracks There is a thing that’s called reciprocity. Giving
every expense you put in: bank accounts, people small items -- without expecting anything
investment portfolios, expense, etc. It’s been useful back -- is a great way to thank people.
for me to file taxes because I can categorize
everything! (Note: Nobody can access your
sensitive financial information, neither can you *APP SUMO
transfer money. You don’t put in actual account www.appsumo.com
numbers into the database.) It helps you:
You can look for deals on all of these apps here!
Track your money.
Build reports.
Make recommendations on cutting down some fees.
Prepare for tax season.

The tool is entirely free.

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EVERY TOOL I USE TO
10X MY DAY
Please Check out Allan McKay’s Podcast on This: www.allanmckay.com/65/

I thought it would be helpful to talk about tools and foam roller while working standing up. It helps me
devices that I use to increase my productivity. Just use my core at all times.
a note: I am not affiliated with anything I’m
promoting here. Some of this is VFX related, other Other health tools to consider:
things are tools of productivity. Inversion table
Gravity boots
First, I want to mention a stand-up desk for those
of us who work long hours. It’s an electronic desk
that can handle any weight and I can use it while FOLDER GIT
sitting down or standing up. If you’re freelancing, http://rpmanager.com/FolderGit/foldergit.htm
you can take VariDesk (www.varidesk.com). It’s a
desk that you put on top of another desk. When This is tool started by Grant Adam. It allows you to
you want to stand up, you use a lever and it’s really store directories, menus, maps, renders, programs,
simple to raise it up. etc. Whenever you right click, you can jump to any
project folder. It allows you to do extra advanced
I also have a foam roller to repair myself a bit. You stuff. This is a free tool. (And here is a tutorial I’ve
can use it to prop up your feet up while you’re made on how to use it:
sitting down. I’ve also been able to stand on the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQsR6V_lBIs.)

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DROPBOX You can get more advanced with it. Everything is
www.dropbox.com synced automatically.

I share a lot of my files with my clients. It uploads There is also Google Drive
to a cloud to the cloud and they synchronize to (www.google.com/drive) and Amazon Cloud
every machine that has access to that folder. I use (www.amazon.com/clouddrive).
this all the time. If you’re freelancing, it’s great to Aspera (www.asperasoft.com) is pretty much
have your freelance folder with your assets and the industry standard for safe transfers via
everything else. iCloud.

DUE AND INVOICE HOME


www.due.com and www.invoicehome.com

This is a tool for payment processing and an invoicing platform. Of course, there is also Quickbooks. You
can set up all of your clients in it, as well as calculate your totals. It has professional looking templates.

IT’S ALMOST
www.itsalmo.st

This is a countdown timer. It helps me stay more conscious about my distractions. If I see my timer, I get
more focused. This is a great way to constantly recalibrate myself to stay focused. This one works pretty
well for what I need to do.
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HELLO SIGN
www.hellosign.com

This is a PDF signing tool. You can insert your


name and signature onto documents. You can also
request some else’s signatures by contacting
them. This is great for NDA agreements

GOOGLE DOCS AND


GOOGLE SPREADSHEETS
www.google.com/docs and
www.google.com/spreadsheets
TODOIST
I use this tool for presentations, building PDF’s. It en.todoist.com
works really well. And it’s free! I’ve bitted on
multi-million dollar projects using Google Docs. Both of these sync over every device. You can
always add things to your to-do list from anywhere.
ToDoIst is a bit more simplified.

EPIC PEN
www.epic-pen.com SHOTGUN
www.shotgunsoftware.com
I do a lot of webinars and live coaching. I’m always
For project management -- especially for big studio
drawing on my screen and I use Epic Pen a lot.
-- this has become a standard for task
management. Sometimes, it can be a bit of an
overkill for a smaller studio (depending on the pace
of your studio).
CAMTASIA AND JING
https://www.techsmith.com/video-editor.html and
https://www.techsmith.com/jing-tool.html
TOGGL
I use Camtasia to record my quick videos (under 5 www.toggl.com

minutes). Jing is a nice alternative. You can share


images or videos on the web. Both are from This is another time tracking tool recommended by

TechSmith. These are both free. some of my colleagues.

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BASECAMP AND ASANA ADOBE MEDIA ENCODER
www.basecamp.com and www.asana.com http://www.adobe.com/products/media-encoder.
html

These are more manageable project management It goes without saying that this is a great tool for
tools. Basecamp is commercial while Asana is free batch conversions. I use it:
(although there is an advanced version available
with a paid membership). I use Asana a lot with my To create proxy’s;

team. To time code everything;


To dump DNG’s and R3D’s after shoots;
To convert lessons, image sequences, etc;
To conform and file sequences.
NOTEPAD ++ AND SUBLIME
www.notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v7.html
and www.sublimetext.com 1 PASSWORD
www.1password.com
This is a tool I use a lot for coding. Whatever
language you’re using for coding, this will help you 1 Password remembers all of your passwords so
color code everything according to that language. you don’t need to write them down.
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LOGMEIN AND TEAM VIEWER FACEBOOK FEED ERADICATOR
secure.logmein.com/home/en and www.chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-
www.teamviewer.us feed-eradicator-for/fjcldmjmjhkklehbacihaiopjkli
hlgg?hl=en

I use LogMeIn. I love it because I can use my phone


It helps you block the feed on Facebook.
to access my computer. So many studios use
Remote Desktop now
(www.chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ XNVIEW
chrome-remote-desktop/ www.xnview.com/en/
gbchcmhmhahfdphkhkmpfmiheni gjmpp?hl=en). I
love the idea of it being Cloud based. This is an image viewing tool.

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3 GREAT CAREER STRATEGIES
TO LEARN FROM YOUR BOSS
Check out Allan McKay’s Article Here:
https://magazine.artstation.com/2015/05/killer-career-strategies-learn-managers/

Although it’s easy to blame management if you’re STRATEGY 1: TRACK TIME LIKE
having a hard time at work, it’s important to realize A PRODUCER
that there are things you can learn from your
managers, too: Things that can help you avoid When they start out in the industry, a lot of artists
problems before they even arise. The more you have trouble estimating how long it’s going to get a
pay attention to how studios run and try to work in job done, which often means that they have to
the same way, the less producers and Supervisors work late. Instead of just accepting that this is the
are going to be on your butt – and the more way things are, think like a producer.
successful you’re going to be!
Producers ask for time sheets so they can
Look at these 3 great productivity strategies you understand how long a particular task takes, in
can learn from the other people in the studio: the order to see how much time to budget for it in
people whose job it is to keep the business running future. The more you do this yourself and track
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the more accurately you will be able to estimate people. Tell them how long you will be, and ask
how long things will take in future. (It’s usually if there’s anything else they can be doing while
two or three times longer than you first think!) they wait. That way, they can shift their priorities
You can get an app to do this for you. a little bit to compensate.
RescueTime tracks how long you spend in a
particular software each day, so it can tell you if Some people, particularly if they aren’t from an art
a job you expected to take half an hour actually background, don’t understand how a job
took four. progresses: It’s just, “Is it done yet?”. If you can
If you are running late on a task, rather than show them the timeline of your work, they will be
hiding and hoping nobody notices, go and tell able see that you’ve been putting the hours in.

Windows, Mac and mobile app RescueTime tracks how much time you spend in different apps to show
how long jobs really take. The Lite version is free; a Premium account is $9/month.
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STRATEGY 2: COMMUNICATE So be like a production coordinator and keep

LIKE A PRODUCTION everyone in the loop about what you’re doing:

COORDINATOR At the end of the day – or at least every other


day – send out a message saying: This is what
A lot of artists are scared to show their Supervisors I’ve done today, this is the location of the files,
their work, because they’re afraid of revisions. They and these are the people I’ve contacted.
figure if they hide it long enough, there won’t be Some people think that you don’t want to send
time for changes later. The fact is, it’s far better to out so many emails to the key people on a
open up the doors of communication sooner: to project, but it’s no big deal: If they don’t want
show stuff at the very beginning of the process – them, they can just delete them.
or better yet, to spend a little extra time punching
out a few variations in crude form – so you’re The more you speak with confidence and on the

certain of the direction you need to go in before same level as those people around you, the more

you spend a lot of time on it. you will be respected, and your opinion will be
trusted – and in the long run, that makes your own
life easier.

“The more you speak with confidence


and on the same level as those people
around you, the more you will be respected,
and your opinion will be trusted.”

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STRATEGY 3: REVIEW YOUR WORK LIKE A SUPERVISOR

A huge thing I learned when I was young was to other work you still have to do. Once all other
begin to look at my work from the perspective of tasks are done, you can look at additional
the client or Supervisor, rather than as myself. The changes. That way, you stay focused on what
more you put yourself in the position of the people you were originally asked to deliver, rather than
who review the final output, the more likely you are wasting too much time on something that will

to be able to deliver something they would want, never get used.

not just what you yourself think is good:


When you’re working for a studio, you’re less
Do this early in the process and you won’t have likely to get silly requests, but the same
to show the client a hundred options at the end. principles apply. People love to be led – and
(Two are enough: a safe version and an that includes Supervisors. The more confident
over-the-top one. By showing the contrast, you they are in you, the more they will take a back
help the client feel more comfortable owning seat, and the fewer interruptions you will face.
what they actually wanted in the first place.)
Speaking the language of spreadsheets helps
If you are given requests that you think are silly, here. If you can show people what you plan to
speaking your mind isn’t going to do you any have done by certain dates, the more comfortable
good. Instead, remind the client of how much they will be agreeing to your schedule.

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This means asking questions at the outset,
and keeping up the communication to check if
you’re heading in the right direction. It’s
natural just to want to dive in and22
start creating, but by minimizing
the number of revisions you
need to do later, you’ll be saving
time in the long run.

But it also means taking charge of


the review process. Clients often go
wishy-washy when you submit work,
and want to try a hundred other
approaches. Often, it’s not that you
haven’t understood what they
want -- it’s that they don’t know
themselves. If you set out all of
the possible options in advance,
including the ones you know aren’t
going to be practical, it makes them
think and challenge themselves.

Too many reviews means reduced productivity. If you


have to get stuff out for review every day, it’s harder to
make any real progress. If you are in this situation, it’s
up to you to politely approach your Supervisor and let
them know that you are busy trying to get everything
done, and would prefer to get your head down for a bit,
then do a review later in the week.

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Learn to speak spreadsheet: detailed records like this, showing what you’re doing and when, make
managers far more likely to trust your proposed work schedule in future. This one is for a VFX job, but the
same principle applies to all commercial art work.
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BONUS! ADVICE FROM PRODUCTIVITY
EXPERT AND BESTSELLING AUTHOR
DAVID ALLEN
Check out Allan McKay’s Interview with David Allen Here: www.allanmckay.com/94

David Allen is a bestselling author of Getting Things those could be the reason why you fall off:
Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. He is also
1. Identify what’s pulling your attention. What’s
a management consultant and a productivity
distracting you right now? The first mistake
expert. Allan McKay and David Allen discuss the
people make is they use their head as their
four steps to productivity according to the GTD
office. It wasn’t designed to do that. Your brain
System, and the tips for freeing up space -- for
didn’t evolve on being able to prioritize. It
more creativity.
evolved on being able to survive the juggle, or
whatever. You have an incredible machine in
THE 4 ELEMENTS TO GETTING your head that can recognize patterns in your
THINGS DONE reality. But you go to the store to get lemons,
but you come back with six other things and no
There are four key elements that you have to lemons. What happened? You gave your brain
employ to get your kitchen under control and to get the job of remembering. It wasn’t designed to
your consciousness under control. Any one of do that.

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2. Even if you make a list -- budget, mom, bank --
then you have to decide what you’re going to DO
about it. Why did you write down “mom”? “Well,
her birthday is coming up.” What are you going to
do about it? “I don’t know.” That’s the problem.
• What’s your commitment?
• What’s your action?
• What’s your outcome?

On most people’s to-do lists, you won’t see


actions or outcomes. You see them identify an
issue that needs to be fixed or clarified -- but it’s not
clear what needs to be done about it.

3. If even if you decided to take action, but you


didn’t write it down, you’re relying on your brain
to keep track of it. So: Organize the results of
that thinking!
4. Even if some people have done all that, they
don’t look at it later. They don’t step up and look The whole idea is about: How do I
at all the things on their calendar. So step 4: create room, the space in my mind
Review it! so I can be fully present with what
I’m doing? That’s the key element!

So:
1. Capture it!
If you’re taking on several projects, or if you’re
2. Clarify it!
taking your work home, you’re not present. If you’re
3. Organize it!
on your Smart Phone while your daughter is
4. Review it!
playing soccer, I’m sorry, you are not present. That’s
what people are really after:
TIME VS. SPACE
• “I need room to think about how to do things
You don’t need time -- you need space. It doesn’t
take any time to have a creative idea -- that idea of strategically.”

what to do with that graphic or that spin on the • “I need room to think about my next gig and what
website -- it doesn’t take any time to be present, or I want to be doing out there in the world.”
innovative, or loving. Any of those golden goodies • “I need room to step back -- or step up -- to think
we’d like to have to be successful! But they do about above the horizon, about what I am and
require something: They require room in your head! what I want to do right now.”
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That’s hard to do if you have so many open loops line in the middle of the road? “I like it.” Why?
you’ve agreed to handle. The key to getting things “Because it gives me the freedom to think about
done is not about getting things done. The keys is other things while I’m driving.”
to be engaged with those commitments you’ve
got in your life. All those things -- down to the Is structure constraining or is it liberating? That’s
mundaneness of your life -- those are the things the key question you need to ask. What structure
that tend to grab your attention, from having the do I need to not worry about my bank account?
space to think about the things you need to think That’s the key message I have for the creative
about. audience in creative fields. Having the right
structure -- that’s the whole point of all of this.
SPONTANEITY VS. STRUCTURE
There is no difference with other aspects of your
Spontaneity is directly proportional to your ability life. Get aspects together so that you’re freed up to
to create structure. You’re free to be give it the freedom to range around into the
spontaneous. I ask, What do you think about that nothing where inspiration happens.

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DAVID ALLEN’S TOOLS FOR GETTING ORGANIZED
1. What’s absolutely critical is pen and paper. No 3. The result of that is some sort of a list: a list of
WiFi, no batteries. You need to capture ideas as errands, a list of things you need to talk to your
they occur to you. No decision about it, get it wife about, a list of projects, etc. Have a list
out of your head. That’s step one. manager. That’s the only tool you need. You
2. Have a physical in-basket where you throw in all could do it with a paper-based planner (you
your notes. When you get time and the frame of could have a page called “errands”, you could
mind, empty that in-tray. Go through all your have a page called “calls”). There are hundreds
notes. Then, go through the clarifying process of list managers out there.
-- of what you need to do -- about the things
you’ve captured.

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CONCLUSION

THE PRODUCTIVE ARTIST


BY ALLAN MCKAY
The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Time and Actually Getting Things Done

Now that you've made it to the end, it is up to you to apply all of this knowledge, methods and techniques to
transform your mindsets and behaviors and build your ritual. You've been handed the tools to do so, but
none of it matters unless you are mentally ready to put all of this into action!

One of the most common things I hear is "I just wish I had more time". More time to do what?

Make money! Transform your career!


Take on more freelance! Have a life!
Work on your own films or passion projects!

What would you do if YOU had an 1-2 days per week to focus on your bigger goals? The methods mentioned
in The Productive Artist are the keys to allowing you to create more time to do exactly that.

Just remember: Nothing happens overnight! One of the key steps to


building a routine is repetition and consistency; and slowly
introducing more of these steps into your ritual over time. If you've
been on the couch for 9 months and you decide one day to run a
marathon the very next day -- you're more than likely to hurt yourself.
All good things take time, so you can avoid overwhelm and so you can
succeed. But they do require you to start TODAY.

Good luck on your journey to becoming The Productive Artist!

- Allan McKay

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TOOLS AND LINKS
THE PRODUCTIVE ARTIST
BY A L L A N M C K AY

ALLAN MCKAY’S PODCASTS ON PRODUCTIVITY:


CREATING YOUR MORNING RITUAL: WWW.ALLANMCKAY.COM/13/

EXTREME FLOW AND PRODUCTIVITY HACKS: WWW.ALLANMCKAY.COM/26/

KILLER TOOLS TO HELP YOU GET SHIT DONE: WWW.ALLANMCKAY.COM/31/

EVERY TOOL I USE TO 10X TIME DAY: WWW.ALLANMCKAY.COM/65/

BONUS PRODUCTIVITY PODCASTS BY ALLAN MCKAY:


INTERVIEW WITH PRODUCTIVITY EXPERT AND
BESTSELLING AUTHOR DAVID ALLEN: WWW.ALLANMCKAY.COM/94

WORK FROM HOME: INTERVIEW WITH TODD SHERIDAN PERRY:


WWW.ALLANMCKAY.COM/9/

ALLAN MCKAY’S ARTICLES ON PRODUCTIVITY:


10 KILLER TIME MANAGEMENT TIPS FOR ARTISTS:
HTTPS://MAGAZINE.ARTSTATION.COM/2015/03/10-KILLER-TIME-MANAGEMENT-TIPS-ARTISTS/

3 GREAT CAREER STRATEGIES TO LEARN FROM YOUR BOSS:


HTTPS://MAGAZINE.ARTSTATION.COM/2015/05/KILLER-CAREER-STRATEGIES-LEARN-MANAGERS/

BONUS PRODUCTIVITY ARTICLES BY ALLAN MCKAY:


OVERTIME VS. PRODUCTIVITY: PART 1:
HTTP://WWW.ALLANMCKAY.COM/OVERTIME-VS-PRODUCTIVITY-PT-1/

OVERTIME VS. PRODUCTIVITY: PART 2:


HTTP://WWW.ALLANMCKAY.COM/OVERTIME-VS-PRODUCTIVITY-PT-2/

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