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If you do anything creative like program or design or write, you know that it's hard to keep your creative energy up and stay focused.
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Something as simple as a meeting scheduled here, will break your afternoon into two pieces
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which are both too small to do anything creative in, and the rest of your day is blown.
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When you know your entire day is free, you soar like a creative eagle.
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Yet people are constantly asking to get things scheduled in, even when those meetings are not important to what you are creating.
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What you need to do is plan your day like a maker.
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You see, managers rule the world and they go from meeting to meeting no sweat.
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They can meet Jim for coffee just to connect without ruining their productivity.
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And while managers are usually your boss and your clients, embracing the manager's schedule is a disaster for makers.
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Makers need to block chunks of time big enough to do real creative work.
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So tell people you only meet at certain times of the day that you choose
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and that it's in their best interest that you have time to create.