Organizing Your Creative Career: How to Channel Your Creativity into Career Success

by Sheila Chandra

Overview

A practical and friendly guide to taming your chaos written specifically for creative people by the bestselling author of Banish Clutter Forever.

"Sheila gave me the tools to hunt success, and the infrastructure to handle it when it came" Stik, world renowned street artist and author

Most of the conventional productivity advice you'll find in the soft business section simply does not work for creative people. Surprisingly, to date there has not been a single book that addresses the unique organizational challenges that artists face. This book sets out to change that, it addresses the myth that truly creative people are messy and that they need mess in order to create. Sheila Chandra applies her professional insights as a creative and organizing expert to the lives of other busy creative people in all disciplines showing them how good organization can liberate their creative magic. She begins with artists physical spaces, including arranging their workspaces and offices so that they remain tidy effortlessly. Her career headspace chapters cover:

creative well-being, including artist support systems

career well-being, including networking and collaborations

self-promotion and how to avoid working for free

making social media pay

personal branding, career planning and goals

how to manage copyright issues and legal paperwork

legacy management

And all from an artistâ€'s point of view. These fool-proof, tried and tested systems are mixed with creativity tips and artist well-being advice that only one artist knows to give another. Written with real affection for the reader, Sheila Chandra takes the creative person by the hand and puts them on the path to success.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786782915
Publisher:	Watkins Media
Publication date:	01/14/2020
Pages:	342
Sales rank:	961,579
Product dimensions:	5.13(w) x 7.86(h) x 0.99(d)

About the Author

Sheila Chandra made some of the most beautiful and innovative recordings in the World Music category - beginning with her band Monsoon's 1982, ground-breaking Asian Fusion, top ten hit around the world, 'Ever So Lonely' - until voice problems forced her to retire in 2010. Since then, in an unlikely twist, she's become a best-selling author with 'Banish Clutter Forever' (2010) outlining her own system for home organizing which she says makes it possible to "pretty much, never tidy up again".

Table of Contents

Foreword Stik

Introduction 1

1 Why do creative people need to be organized? 10

Part 1 Physical space

2 Creative workspaces and routines 30

3 Living spaces and routines 48

4 The creative person's home office 72

Part 2 Headspace

5 Creativity and wellbeing 102

6 Planning and career wellbeing 128

7 Self-promotion 164

8 Teams, collaboration and getting support 198

9 Managing paperwork for creative people 232

10 Long-term maintenance and challenges 250

A final word 269

Acknowledgements 270

Sheila Chandra Biography / Discography 272