- The power of momentum
- 5 min Mind-trick to kickstart your design project
- You get hooked! (Binge-Drawing)
Today,
I wanna give you a simple trick to stop procrastinating
your homework for your design school.
You know when your school project deadline is coming,
but your mind tells you “It’s ok. I’ll start tomorrow”.
You know tomorrow often means never…
The power of momentum
Let’s talk about housekeeping.
We all hate cleaning the house.
However, have you ever started to clean up a bit of your room,
then your laptop screen and ended cleaning up the whole house?
Even though you usually hate cleaning.
It becomes a great session of meditation to remove all
these dust and tidying up all in the right order.
You keep doing it because you feel the need to finish what you started.
That’s the Power of Momentum.
Start to be in motion,
and you’ll keep going much further than you expected at the start.
And that’s the trick!
5 min Mind-trick to kickstart your design project
If you don’t feel much like sketching today for your homework:
Then do a small contract with yourself:
Start drawing for 5 minutes.
If you don’t like it, stop. If you do like it, keep going!
You’ll realize, you will kick start generating new ideas and sketches
you wouldn’t want to stop to discover what’s the next ideas you’ll get.
You get hooked! (Binge-Drawing)
It’s like when you start a new series on Netflix.
You want to know what will come next and won’t stop watching.
Should we talk about “Binge-Drawing”?
And that’s how the 5 minutes contract with yourself
will become a 3 hours session of productive homework and fun!
Take your pen and always have fun sketching!
Cheers,
Chou-Tac
PS: This week, I received a message from someone important in my design school.
Someone who cares for students a lot, Juliette Beauchot.
She was the representative of all the first-year students at Creapole-ESDI.
I met her about 17 years ago. And we still remember each other.
Below is what she wrote to me. 🙂
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Hi Chou-Tac,
that´s actually a very nice productivity hack.
So often it´s about doing the first few steps, like the 5 minutes.
Thanks!
Congratulations! It must feel like a great satisfaction this appreciation you have received! Your work is really like a blessing to me and also you are very inspirational! And most of all this attitude of yours, which feels entirely lacking judging is something like a treasure. I wish you lots of luck and success!