The Creative Lens #1 - Plan Everything

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Plan everything.

This has been my strategy during my first 2 years as a content creator.

When I say to plan everything, I mean to plan everything. You shouldn’t plan only your daily tasks but also your goals.

In this way you are able to keep tracked your life and you can understand better how to improve it.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

This is essential if you want to be consistent and you desire to reach your goals.

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Sometimes I see people who are scared about planning all activities because it could cause anxiety.

There are 2 types of anxiety:

• a pathological anxiety that is dangerous for our health

• a physiological anxiety that help us to keep focused and be more productive

The last one has to be our mate. For example, I’m more anxious when I don't map out my path because I have no control on my time.

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Here a list of my favourite organisation tools to keep my time ordered:

• Google Calendar

• Reminders

• Notion

• Apple Notes

• Freeform

You don’t have to use these platforms but feel free to try different tools and decide which is the best for you. I suggest you to choose a simple platform without too many functions in order to have a clear organisation.

This was one of my typical week as a student and content creator when I went to school:

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Here a list of links I believe are worth sharing.

The Benefits of Anxiety and Nervousness — An article used to create today newsletter if you want to get a deeper knowledge about anxiety effects.

The Manual — One of my favourite newsletter about different themes such as design, gear and financial tips. No spam will affect your inbox.

Threads — A new competition between Zuck and Elon is started so you should enjoy this new social by Meta.

Free Sound Effects — Royalty-free sound effects library for every content creator.

Text Symbols — My favourite resource for minimal and clean text symbols.

My Framer Portfolio — I have recently discovered Framer, a platform which allows you to create a website without coding. There are many websites that let you make this but I found Framer the perfect middle ground between coding and simply positioning elements on the page.

Wishing you the best, see you soon!

-Mattia

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