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 no 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. 20 Wonderful Drawing Blogs
2. Start to Draw Your Life is now available as a free eBook to download
3. Start to Draw Your Life
4. Become a member of Sustainably Creative
5. 20 things to do to practice focusing on one thing at a time.
6. Take the 20 minutes a day challenge
7. Don't compare yourself to others, just get on with YOUR important work
8. 20 things you can do in 20 minutes (and create a sense of momentum)
9. 75 Ways to Draw More
10. 20 (More) Wonderful Drawing Blogs
11. Start to Draw Your Life
12. 20 ways to get through the bad days
13. Find ten things to draw!
14. Deciding to work through The Artist's Way for a fifth time. Join me?
15. 10 reasons to just do something creative and not care about the result
16. Why I Love Moleskines (and some resources)
17. Podcasts
18. Clarifying what Important Work is
19. About Michael
20. The One Thing Today podcast

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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