Testing Time-Management Strategies – WSJ.com. As most of you know, I’ve been spending the past year or so working on time management techniques, trying to figure out ways to keep creative, but still get work done quickly and efficiently. In my new role, I find that I spend quite a bit of time juggling meetings, […]
As our production has begun, I’ve been talking to our animators about my goals in running the animation department for the show. It’s been an interesting process, one in which I’ve learned a lot about myself, my values, and how I feel our department can be most sucessful. I’m not going to get into specific […]
After all this time of trying various task managers, it feels like I’m starting to settle on one. Believe it or not, it’s one of the tools I started out trying and discarding for various reasons, but after much hunting and pecking and trying and pulling and reading and writing.. I’m about *this* close to […]
A few weeks ago my friend Eric Scheur asked if he could re-post one of my posts about the Fear of Moving Past Blocking to the awesome website http://11secondclub.com. You can see the repost here: http://www.11secondclub.com/helpful_hints/the_fear_of_moving_past_blocking/ I thought it was a great idea. I hadn’t actually re-read my post in a while, but was very […]
I have been trying to get better at managing my time lately, and I realized that one thing that’s constantly weighing on my mind is the fact that my inbox (email, etc) is crazy overflowing with stuff to remember, stuff to do, stuff to reference, etc. I need to tackle it, clean things out, and […]
So lately I’ve been trying to expand my knowledge base and work on my time/project tracking abilities. One of the tools I’m using is open office calc (it’s free!). I’ve been trying to write a really cool spreadsheet that will allow me to keep track of various phases of a project. I’ve got some fun […]
For those of you who are self-help/management nuts, this might be an interesting book for ya. I’m just sort of getting into this whole GTD side of things. If you don’t know, GTD is short for “Getting Things Done”. It’s a technique that David Allen developed to .. well.. get things done. Many “todo” applications […]
<br /> <img src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/s/noscript?tag=jasonschleifer-20″ mce_src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/s/noscript?tag=jasonschleifer-20″ alt=”” /><br /> One of the things I’m working on in my position as Head of Character Animation is learning how to straddle the roles of being a “Coach” and a “Player”. You see, as an animator, my role was to be the best animator I possibly could be. […]
One of the things I have been working a lot on lately is learning how to get my actions to lead to my indended results. If this sounds confusing, I’m not suprised.. It’s a bit hard to explain. But I’d like to try, so here goes: Have you ever been in a situation where you […]