Direction of motivation: creatives move toward what they want in all areas of their life while clods move away from what they don't want.

Time orientation: creatives look forward to completion. Clods look backward at how they have been unable to do it and assume future is also failure.

Memory management: creatives look toward constructed imagery combining new with old to create. Clods rely almost exclusively on eidetic imagery of past for repeat type solutions.

Time distortion: creatives get in a groove and time goes zip. Clods drag out time

Perceptual positions: creatives use a 1-2-3 way of processing info where 1 represents self, 2 is other and 3 is observer. They move in/out of these various frames of reference to gather info not available to any single position. Clods are rarely aware of anything but position 1.

Perceptual roles of dreamer-critic-realist. Creatives remain in dreamer mode for decades and use critic role to make dream better and realist mode as final preparation for making dream come true. Clods kill dream almost immediately by allowing critic/realist into show before dream develops enough to have a life of it's own.

I used to think answer to this problem was to-do lists. I had one at work, one at home and one for weekends. I prioritized. I delegated. Learned to say no. Still my to-do list grew faster than I could tick items off. And, although I’d created list to better manage my time, my to-do list seemed to be managing me.

One day my inner rebel had had enough. I put my to-do list away. And you know what? Life didn’t end. Things still got done when they needed to. And I found I actually had more time, not less.

The truth is this:

1.What has to get done, gets done, whether you schedule it or not. You will always find time to do things you have to do.

2.The most important things in life rarely make an appearance on any to do list. There will never be enough time to do things you want to.

3.Time is not a sequence of events; it’s way you spend your life.

4.When you make time for things you want to do, you will do things you have to do more efficiently.

5.Just because it’s urgent doesn’t means it’s important.

6.You don’t have to do everything.

If you too want to get out of to-do tyranny, here are some ideas to try: