Bite Size Book Club

On this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, we start Season 2 of the show with a new book: Elise Blaha Cripe's Big Dreams Daily Joys

*Show Notes: *

This episode's pages: 1-23
Next week/episode we'll be reading the rest of Part One (pages 24-31).

*Key Points: *

• Why set goals?
• What is the difference between a goal & a to-do list item?
• Elise's concept of the layers of goals
• What makes a good goal?

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In this episode of the CAF Bite Size Book Club, A+K dive into chapter five of Austin Kleon's Keep Going. This chapter, The Ordinary + Extra Attention = The Extraordinary was so much fun to discuss.

We talk about how if you spend a little bit more time on the ordinary, things become amazing. You don't need to 'be the most' to stand out or make awesome things.

What do you enjoy putting extra attention to?

In this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, Amanda and Kristin continue to dissect Find Your Artistic Voice by Lisa Congdon. Today, on the BSBC, we discuss chapter three: The Path.

Lisa comes up with a really great framework for talking about your creative journey called 'The Path' and she breaks it down into five different phases: The Spark, The Ongoing Desire To Create, Risk-Taking, and Experimentation; Questioning; and Creative Flow.

On this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, we continue reading Big Dreams Daily Joys by Elise Blaha Cripe. Today we are continuing Part Four, and reading pages 146-155.

Show Notes:

• Don't Hoard Ideas
• The value of first drafts and idea dumps
• Finding motivation
• Clear space
• Create a ritual
• Tell yourself it's a trial run
• Set a timer
• The best tool is the one you'll use

On this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, we continue reading Big Dreams Daily Joys by Elise Blaha Cripe. Today we are continuing Part Two: Let's Make Room for Joy, and reading pages 44-51.

Show Notes

Topics in this week's episode

• Big Picture scheduling
• Re-evaluating What's in your life
• Building Routine into your to-do list

To try: opt-in Notecards

Last Episode we talked about
list keeping and prioritizing

Today, we're first going to talk about Big Picture scheduling.

-External Demands preset dates
-Negotiated Demands - have to attend, but have some choice of when to schedule

- Internal Demands things you want need to attend, but are flexible on the date/time

This is difficult! Not everything will fit neatly into your schedule

You need to see the time you don't have so that you can see the time you do have.

Reevaluating what is in Your Life.
choosing your actions
opt-in exercise on pg 48 is great
This is important. (re-evaluating)

if you don't do this, other people determine what's important for your life; because we are always gelling filled up w/ randomities.

Building Routine into your to-do list
Almost everything should have a set time.
Pay attention to the flow of your days and weeks. This helps match energy levels to activities

Compartments for tasks can help you feel more focused & provide anchor points in your days/ weeks.

You are building a routine so you can break the routine.