About a million years ago, before I listened to The Best Show, even, I read Tom Scharpling's rules for getting creative work done.
1. DO THE WORK. Can you look yourself in the mirror at the end of the day and say that you did the best you could?
2. BE THE BEST POSSIBLE VERSION OF YOURSELF. Don’t shortchange yourself or pull your punches because of some internal negative voice!
3. WRITE DOWN WHAT YOU NEED TO DO. It helps. Do those three things and you’ll be more alright than not.
These have stuck with me for a long time, perhaps none more than No. 3 there. (No. 1 and No. 3 jockey for the lead spot over time.) It occurs to me now that my interest in calendars, notebooks, and complicated to-do lists, automated computationally can all be seen as variations on Scharpling's Third Rule.
So's anyways, here is this year's spin on David Malki's devastatingly simple and useful "progressive calendar", a similarly break-free and formatting-light you can print out, look at, and use it as a place to write down what you need to do, along with when you need to do it.
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