Kari Estrin
Holistic Artist Career Consulting & Acoustic Music Radio Promotion
615-262-0883
kari@kariestrin.com
www.kariestrin.com
View or download Kari's brochure

Vanessa Lively
Singer-songwriter & Founder of Home Street Music non-profit
info@vanessalively.com
www.vanessalively.com
www.homestreetmusic.org

Erin Ivey Rogers
Singer-songwriter & Integrative Project Advisor (PMP)
erin@erinivey.com
Learn more at projects.erinivey.com

Presentation slides

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Tools and recommendations

Defining your project:
View or download the DIBS Doc template, a visioning document with questions to draw out the Direction, Intention, Boundaries, and Spirit you desire for your project (from Erin’s practice).

Timelines:
- MS Excel or online tools like ClickUp can make simple timelines
- Gantt chart timelines are bar charts showing dependency relationships between activities, which is necessary to identify the Critical Path (shows the exact activities affecting the delivery date, so you don't waste money, energy, and goodwill rushing the wrong things)

Alignment/Somatics:
- Morning Pages (from Julia Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way)
- Dream journaling and interpretation (from Jungian analysis)
- Inner-child dialoguing (from Internal Family Systems model)
- Feldenkrais Method of neuro-physical education, re-sets the nervous system

Focus:
- Timer (so many ways to use this simple tool! Set it to focus time on a specific task or control time spent on distractions, a reminder to take regular breaks, etc.)
- Body doubling (a productivity strategy in which another person works alongside you as you complete a task you might otherwise find challenging)
- Time blocking for deep work vs. shallow work (from Cal Newport’s book & podcast Deep Work)
- Menstrual cycle tracking and forecasting (to work with the changing qualities of energy throughout your cycle) Here's a good infographic.

Prioritization: