CreativeMornings - An antidote to productivity guilt

February 10, 2022

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“If productivity narrows our days, creativity expands them.”

If you’ve ever felt anxious or ashamed about not getting through a mountain of tasks in a given day, you’re not alone. Productivity guilt is real, and the list of unticked checkboxes can flatten our time and energy. But Extraordinary Routines writer (and CreativeMornings fan favorite) Madeleine Dore is here to prescribe an antidote. In this exclusive excerpt from her book I Didn’t Do the Thing Today, she illustrates how creativity can expand our day when the crush of productivity narrows it. Learn how to live in the creative ebb and flow.

And here’s something else to get excited about: Join Madeleine Dore live on February 15 at her CreativeMornings FieldTrip to ask all of your biggest questions on how we spend our time.

Photography credit Giulia Giannini McGuaran

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CreativeMornings - An antidote to productivity guilt

“If productivity narrows our days, creativity expands them.”

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