Organizing Chaos: Managing time – So how do we bring order to chaos without losing the chaos that sparks creativity? This is something I plan on exploring in the new year.

There is a thin line between chaos and madness and the same with order and the obsessive compulsion. The engineer can’t understand why the artist can’t color in the lines and the artist wishes the engineer would stop creating lines to stay in.

There is a problem with the lack of order and discipline in the creative process-without some regiment it is hard to complete things. I live in a state of chaos that goes from periods of manic creativity to the interim moments of creative block.  

Creativity without order is like an open circuit for an engineer; just a series of sparks and energy that goes nowhere and does nothing. Order and discipline turns the idea into the actual finished product.

I think the first and most important process in discipline for a creative is time management. Time is such a rare commodity and to have it at the same time you have that spark of creativity is a rare thing. I think my resolution for the New Year is to stop and allow solitude and introspection to fill more of my time, in this process perhaps when I do have time I might not be as creatively blocked.