A good place to start

If you’re new to Sustainably Creative, or just want some help finding your way around, this is a good place to start.

Think of this post as a sort of guided tour of Sustainably Creative, a place for new readers and regular visitors alike to delve deeper into the large number of posts that make up the blog, as well as keeping an eye on what’s new and what’s popular.

If, after exploring here, you feel you’d like to delve a little deeper, why not consider becoming a member of the site.

A good place to start is with a few hand-picked posts to get a feel for the site:

Recommended Reading

• Sustainably Creative: an introduction...
• Staying focused
• 20 things you can do in 20 minutes (and create a sense of momentum)
• Just do it. Advice for anyone with limited energy who wants to get creative stuff done.
• ME/CFS Awareness Month: Lessons for everyone from an artist with ME
• Don't compare yourself to others, just get on with YOUR important work
• Achieve (almost) anything you want with a pen, paper and a pot of tea
• Why running a minimalist business is perfect for an artist with low energy

As with everything else on this site there’s not need to rush. Why not make a pot of tea and pick one or two posts from the current top 20 of most read posts:

Top 20 Post of All Time (automatically updated)

1. Start to Draw Your Life is now available as a free eBook to download
2. 20 Wonderful Drawing Blogs
3. Take the 20 minutes a day challenge
4. Start to Draw Your Life
5. 75 Ways to Draw More
6. 20 things you can do in 20 minutes (and create a sense of momentum)
7. Start to Draw Your Life
8. Become a member of Sustainably Creative
9. 20 things to do to practice focusing on one thing at a time.
10. 20 (More) Wonderful Drawing Blogs
11. Members
12. About Michael
13. Don't compare yourself to others, just get on with YOUR important work
14. Why focus is so important if you want to be creative but are low on energy
15. The One Thing Today podcast
16. Find ten things to draw!
17. 10 ways to just get on with your important work despite being tired or having limited time!
18. The Beany 4 is now available as an ebook
19. The Unconventional Guide to Art and Money
20. 10 ideas for ways to be kinder to yourself (and increase your creative output)

Getting Your Important Work Done

• Have a morning triage session to keep your Important Work in focus
• Achieve (almost) anything you want with a pen, paper and a pot of tea
• The Importantance of Elevenses (or why it's vital to pace yourself and stay on track)
• What could you say "no" to today to free up energy for something more important?
• Sometimes a "one-thing to-do list" is the only way to get the (really) Important stuff done

You can also explore the blog via it’s main categories:

Categories

• Sustainably Creativity
• Lists
• ME/CFS
• Your Important Work

If that lot isn’t enough to give you an idea of what it means to be sustainably creative you can also find me elsewhere banging on about working little and often and keeping it simple:

Elsewhere

• MicroPodcasts
• Twitter
• Facebook

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