www.south.io How do you stay productive? Truthfully, being creative and
productive is a very rare occurrence for me. I try to focus on a single important
task per day. Completing this one important task let's me feel more successful in
the midst of everything else going on. Being overwhelmed crushes my creative
spark. I also get up and walk around frequently during the day. Joking with our
team and asking about their lives. These little diversions almost always trigger
my best ideas. How do you plan your day? Most weeks my wife and I run
through the week ahead on Sunday night, since we have a shared calendar and
she adds things on her phone, it's more of a casual thing. Mondays after lunch
our team gets together for a 'speed read' where everyone says what they're
working on, and if they need any help on anything. Our project manager will
take notes and update everyone’s calendar (my wife can see this as well). One
company policy that that has really helped us—no client meetings on Mondays
or Fridays (there is an eternal recurring block). This really helps prevent people
from working on their weekends for a Monday deadline, or stay late on Friday
trying to wrap up something after a meeting ate up their day. Do you have any
morning rituals? With three kids, my ritual is frequent chaos. My ideal morning
is coffee with my wife before kids wake up, controlled chaos for them to get out
to school, two mile walk on the beach, BEFORE I check my email for the latest
overnight blow up. Favorite mobile app? We all use the Slack mobile app for
communication between our entire team (four time zones). This saves SO much
time digging through email threads. I also rely on Flipboard to keep track of
news related what I'm interested in. Recommended resource? Our primary
application stack is: Base
Proposify Basecamp
Lastpass Asana
Adobe CC
Github
Vagrant DeployHQ
Slack Google Apps.
John McGinn is an award-winning creative director and founding partner of
SOUTH, a full service digital agency based in Charleston, SC.
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