Why Traditional Project Management Wasn’t Working For My Creative Projects & Four Changes I Made To Finally Move Progress Forward Consistently.

How To Make Steady Progress On Your Big Creative Projects

Ev Chapman
4 min readSep 29, 2023

I build processes for myself not because I’m super organised.
But because I can’t be trusted to get work done otherwise.

👉 I am a procrastinator
👉 When anything feels hard I won’t do it
👉 I have shiny object syndrome
👉 I struggle to finish things I start

Photo by Alice Dietrich on Unsplash

Lately I’ve been struggling with my process for getting big creative projects done. They feel like they are taking forever to finish. Each step feels big so I put it off thinking I need a bigger chunk of time to deal with it.

And I’m not working on them consistently.

In my 9–5 I have a pretty standard way of managing my work:
→ I have projects
→ I break down those projects into manageable chunks
→ I time block those chunks
→ I get the work done
→ I finish the project

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Ev Chapman

I help high performers being held back by their tools & workflows unlock a new kind of personal knowledge system that works as hard and as smart as they do.