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productivity

5 Rules for Work: What it Takes to Get More Creative

Coming up with creative ideas isn’t magical. It’s a skill to develop. Some people have been working on it for a long time, like TV Producer Shonda Rhimes. Here, she highlights 5 quick tips for creative productivity in the middle of a busy life.

My Word For the Year Is a Plea To Recognize Our Most Precious Commodity

Presence is a plea to recognize the fleeting nature of this life and to fully appreciate the scarce and valuable commodity of time, and to be able to purposefully waste time on activities whose value isn’t easily quantifiable, which don’t serve immediate needs and which don’t add to the bottom line. Creativity depends on it.

If The Goals You Set for the New Year Fail, This Could Be Why

As I dream about the new year, I have realized there’s one mistake I need to avoid making: the reason most goals don’t work is not that they’re too big. It’s that they’re too vague.

How I Narrowed My Focus for 2015

The tool I used to discover how I should focus this blog.

The Two Things Every Great Creative Project Must Have

A simple Venn diagram that summarizes the greatness and challenge of every great creative work.

The Half Life of Your Work

Why the worst thing for a creative is to bask too long in the glory of something you’ve done.

Good-Fast-Cheap is Terrible. Except When It’s Helpful.

Good-fast-cheap is the bane of every artist and designer, except when it isn’t.

This App is Saving My Tail Right Now

A simple little app that is keeping me above water while I get settled in my new GA world.

Creative Work Habits

Creative people have indigenous work habits – peculiar maybe, to the outsider, but natural to the creative person.

Len's work at Midnight Oil was my first glimmer of hope that I could change how churches communicate.

- Michael Buckingham, Creative Director, Victory World Outreach and Owner, Holy Cow Creative

2013-12-11T23:20:20+00:00

Len's work at Midnight Oil was my first glimmer of hope that I could change how churches communicate. - Michael Buckingham, Creative Director, Victory World Outreach and Owner, Holy Cow Creative

http://lenwilson.us/testimonials/buckingham/

Len is an artist and thought leader.

- Gary Molander, Author, Pastor, Owner at Floodgate Productions

2013-12-11T23:12:18+00:00

Len is an artist and thought leader. - Gary Molander, Author, Pastor, Owner at Floodgate Productions

http://lenwilson.us/testimonials/molander/

Len’s writing and insights for the church go far beyond media; they extend to how we effectively communicate the Gospel to generation that has largely dismissed what the church has to say.

- Jordon Cooper, Founding member, resonate.ca

2013-12-11T23:15:47+00:00

Len’s writing and insights for the church go far beyond media; they extend to how we effectively communicate the Gospel to generation that has largely dismissed what the church has to say. - Jordon Cooper, Founding member, resonate.ca

http://lenwilson.us/testimonials/cooper/

Len literally wrote the book on the development and use of engaging multimedia communications in worship.

- Steve Fridsma, architect, Grand Rapids MI

2013-12-11T23:21:04+00:00

Len literally wrote the book on the development and use of engaging multimedia communications in worship. - Steve Fridsma, architect, Grand Rapids MI

http://lenwilson.us/testimonials/fridsma/

Len took over a fledgling media ministry at Ginghamsburg Church and developed it into a nationally recognized program of innovation and effectiveness by producing some of the most effective tools for communicating deep theological concepts in ways that informed, inspired, and entertained.

- Mike Gibbs, Missions Pastor, Ginghamsburg Church

2013-12-11T23:18:56+00:00

Len took over a fledgling media ministry at Ginghamsburg Church and developed it into a nationally recognized program of innovation and effectiveness by producing some of the most effective tools for communicating deep theological concepts in ways that informed, inspired, and entertained. - Mike Gibbs, Missions Pastor, Ginghamsburg Church

http://lenwilson.us/testimonials/gibbs/

Len is a creative master.

- Grant Hagiya, Bishop, United Methodist Church

2013-12-11T23:07:31+00:00

Len is a creative master. - Grant Hagiya, Bishop, United Methodist Church

http://lenwilson.us/testimonials/hagiya/

Few authors have foreseen the future of language. Len captures not only the prophetic union of technology and worship, but the first glimpse at a new way of thinking. Without a grasp of this new language, I can not see how the church can survive. That’s how important Len’s work is.

- Thomas Hohstadt, Conductor, Fulbright Scholar

2013-12-11T23:12:52+00:00

Few authors have foreseen the future of language. Len captures not only the prophetic union of technology and worship, but the first glimpse at a new way of thinking. Without a grasp of this new language, I can not see how the church can survive. That’s how important Len’s work is. - Thomas Hohstadt, Conductor, Fulbright Scholar

http://lenwilson.us/testimonials/hohstadt/

Len possesses a rarely-seen combination of creativity and attention to detail which together make his work both strikingly original and highly correct.

- Rebecca Burgoyne, Director, Publishing Operations at United Methodist Publishing House

2013-12-11T23:14:04+00:00

Len possesses a rarely-seen combination of creativity and attention to detail which together make his work both strikingly original and highly correct. - Rebecca Burgoyne, Director, Publishing Operations at United Methodist Publishing House

http://lenwilson.us/testimonials/burgoyne/

Len is a master wordsmith and communicator.

- Will Willimon, Author

2013-12-11T23:05:49+00:00

Len is a master wordsmith and communicator. - Will Willimon, Author

http://lenwilson.us/testimonials/willimon/

Len’s vision for the effective use of media in worship has transformed worship experiences in numerous congregations around the country.

- Warren Pattison, Director of Adult Ministries, FUMC Lakeland, FL

2013-12-11T23:14:57+00:00

Len’s vision for the effective use of media in worship has transformed worship experiences in numerous congregations around the country. - Warren Pattison, Director of Adult Ministries, FUMC Lakeland, FL

http://lenwilson.us/testimonials/pattison/

Len is the most creative person I’ve ever been around. He makes everyone around him better.

- John Allen, Senior Pastor, Trietsch Memorial United Methodist Church, Flower Mound, Tx

2013-12-11T23:13:14+00:00

Len is the most creative person I’ve ever been around. He makes everyone around him better. - John Allen, Senior Pastor, Trietsch Memorial United Methodist Church, Flower Mound, Tx

http://lenwilson.us/testimonials/allen/

As Senior Leadership Editor at Abingdon Press, Len brought heft and breadth to our acquisitions.

- Neil Alexander, President and Publisher, United Methodist Publishing House

2013-12-11T23:19:30+00:00

As Senior Leadership Editor at Abingdon Press, Len brought heft and breadth to our acquisitions. - Neil Alexander, President and Publisher, United Methodist Publishing House

http://lenwilson.us/testimonials/alexander/