Get It Done: From Procrastination to Creative Genius in 15 Minutes a Day

by Sam Bennett, Keegan-Michael Key (Foreword by)

Overview

Stop Making Excuses and Start Making Progress

Creative people tend to see the world a little differently than everyone else. But that doesn’t mean they can’t zero in on their goals, get focused, get organized, and not only accomplish what they want to achieve but earn money doing it. In Get It Done, a beloved teacher and successful writer, actor, and comedian helps you get a handle on your own particular — even peculiar — creative process and harness your energies in positive, productive, and income-generating ways. Sam Bennett’s innovative exercises, inspiring true success stories, and bonus online components will shift your thinking and prompt the kind of insights that turn underperforming geniuses into accomplished artists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608682102
Publisher:	New World Library
Publication date:	02/11/2014
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	787,532
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Sam Bennett is the creator of the Organized Artist Company. In addition to her multifaceted writing and performance work, she specializes in personal branding, career strategies, and small-business marketing. She grew up in Chicago and now lives in a tiny beach town outside Los Angeles.

Keegan-Michael Key, a cocreator of Key & Peele, lives in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Contents

List of Exercises
Foreword by Keegan-Michael Key
Introduction

Chapter One - Procrastination Is Genius in Disguise
Chapter Two - Which of Your Thirty-Seven Projects to Tackle First?
Chapter Three - Your Creativity Toolkit
Chapter Three - Overcoming Perfectionism
Chapter Four - How to Do Your Could-Do List

Interlude One - A Prayer For The Capable

Chapter Six - How Many Kinds of Artist Are You?
Chapter Seven - Who Are You to Do This, Anyway?
Chapter Eight - Do You Really Have to Make a Budget?
Chapter Nine - Where Will You Find the Time?

Interlude Two - An Ode To The Overwhelmed

Chapter Ten - Organizing Your Space
Chapter Eleven - Looking under the Rock

Interlude Three - A Prayer for Hoping against Hope

Chapter Twelve - Why Is It So Awful When Everyone Thinks You’re So Wonderful?
Chapter Thirteen - Do You Quit When You're Almost Done?
Chapter Fourteen - Beginning to Get Your Work Out There
Chapter Fifteen - Ending at the Beginning, or Okay, Now What?
Chapter Sixteen - The Fear of Failure Is Perfectly Reasonable

Acknowledgments
Endnotes
Index
About the Author

Editorial Reviews

“An instant classic, essential reading for anyone who wants to make a ruckus.”
— Seth Godin, author of The Icarus Deception

“Sam Bennett is refreshing in her positivity and achieves something rare — a how-to book that is funny and entertaining to read, and makes you feel good! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I must go write an Oscar-winning screenplay. Or clean my room. One of the two — I’ll figure it out.”
— Rachel Dratch, actor, Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock

“As someone who is both organized and an artist, I can supremely recommend this innovative, effective, wildly enjoyable book. You will easily ‘get it done’ with your focused genius and all that you’ll learn and experience in these pages and in your life.”
— SARK, artist and author of Glad No Matter What

“If you need help getting things done (and who doesn’t?) this book, written with love and passion, will help you.”
— Ed O’Neill, actor, Modern Family and Married with Children

“Calling all artists! Are procrastination and perfectionism getting in the way of your sharing your creative gifts with the world? Through small, doable steps, Get It Done will help you make your big ideas real.”
— Jennifer Lee, author of The Right-Brain Business Plan

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