Peace of Mind Organizing

Treat yourself to a creative work session

25 April 2011

Maybe you have a germ of an idea you want to develop. Perhaps you have a problem you haven’t figured out how to find the solution for. Maybe you’ve planned out a project but haven’t found the time to actually work on it. Perhaps you just want to figure out which way is up.

Professional organizers (including me) love to tell clients to put themselves first, to actually schedule time in their calendars to work on meaningful stuff.

It’s a great idea. And here’s an even better one. It’s the Society of the Secret Playdate, the brainchild of my friend Maryann Devine of Smarts and Culture.

Maryann believes that great stuff happens in our head when we’re not really thinking about them. At the Society of the Secret Playdate sessions, you might work on the project or issue you’re wanting to work on, but then you can put it on the backburner and do some sort of creative endeavor (anything, really) while in the background your mind is working away at the project. Or perhaps it’s figuring a way through an obstacle. Or solving a problem.

Your hands are busy doing something creative while your mind does its own thing.

Here’s how the calls work. You connect with other people on the call and talk about what you’re going to work on during the playdate. You check back 60 minutes later and share your breakthroughs. (This brief description doesn’t do it justice. Please check out the Society of the Secret Playdate page.)

I love this idea. And one of the things I love most about it is that signing up you’re making the commitment to set time aside to do something you’ve been wanting to do. You place the call. And then you do your thing, because you know you’re going to report on it. I love that kind of gentle accountability.

Maryann is launching a new Society of the Secret Date membership program. If you get in on it soon, it’s only $13 a month for two 90-minute calls a month. (After May 24, it goes up to $19 a month, still a bargain, in my opinion.)

Right now, she’s offering a few sample calls so you can try it out. The first is full. But she’s just added one on Tuesday, May 3 at 3 pm eastern (I’ve signed up for that one!) and another on Saturday, May 14 at 3 pm eastern. Sign up here.

I just love creative people.

Tagged with: creative people, maryann devine, productivity, society of the secret playdate

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