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Creating Time: Using Creativity to Reinvent the Clock and Reclaim Your Life
Most of us have said, “If only I had more time,” as a way of explaining why we aren’t leading our most fulfilling lives. This book turns the concept of time management upside down by presenting exciting new tools for viewing and experiencing your time. Creating Time combines creativity with science in a gorgeous colorful format that presents a fascinating adventure in which you will imagine, create, and completely reshape the way you experience time. Each chapter presents a shift-making concept illustrated by real-life examples, step-by-step introspective processes, and powerful creative projects that inspire a new sense of time, a liberating view of self, and a fresh perspective on the meaning of being human, empowered, and fully alive.
280 pages, Paperback
First published April 3, 2012
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January 7, 2025
Interesting book and appreciate the creative exercises that support it.
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June 4, 2012The first thing I notice about a book is the organization, and Creating Time gets high marks for excellent organization--three sections, 16 chapters, with titles that explain in depth what the section contains.
The material is followed by notes, acknowledgements, contributors' and Marney's bio. The foreword is in back, too, because the content begins and ends from the same point, Marney explains.
I read the book front to back, but that doesn't always happen with creatively-written books, and this one is prepared. If you read it section by section, the excellent table of contents will help you re-find what you need it when you want it again. There is also an index, an all-but-abandoned but highly useful tool for finding specific references or sub-topics. For all of you who are too young to know how to use an index---heavy sigh---it's what we used before there was a search engine in every blog.
You will not wind up with 28 hours in a day by reading the book, but you will discover any number of new ways to see time, feel time, experience time and tell time.
Reading the book is like visiting with Marney herself. She chats about her life, using events in her and her family's life to illustrate points. You get to know her struggles with a genetic bone disorder (when a foot surgery takes a year to heal, your sense of time has to become uncomfortable) and the wonder of her son's experiencing life. She uses the stories and artwork from the coaches she trains, and she invents words like Wellativity and Artsignment. The book is pure, authentic Marney from first page to last. She never abandons you on a single page of the book.
You can use the book as a workbook--there are step-by-step how-tos and assignments to help put to use what you have just read. I have a big weakness for books written for kinesthetic readers, and this is fully one of them. You learn by doing. She doesn't tell, she shows. You can't stay grumpy and you can't avoid participating. It is a personal tour through her vision of time. Even better, through her experience of time. You come away with new ideas and new ways to manipulate the time you want to repeat. (Not having a good time? There are ways to speed up the experience of time, too.) Reading the book is a workout in a mental gym. That's what a kinesthetic book will do for you.
The book is richly illustrated and designed to keep you moving, reading, empathizing and making time bend to your will. Marney wouldn't have it any other way.
Disclosure: Marney sent me a review copy at no cost to me. My curiosity (and need for more time) would have driven me to pay for it, but I'm thankful for the generosity.
The material is followed by notes, acknowledgements, contributors' and Marney's bio. The foreword is in back, too, because the content begins and ends from the same point, Marney explains.
I read the book front to back, but that doesn't always happen with creatively-written books, and this one is prepared. If you read it section by section, the excellent table of contents will help you re-find what you need it when you want it again. There is also an index, an all-but-abandoned but highly useful tool for finding specific references or sub-topics. For all of you who are too young to know how to use an index---heavy sigh---it's what we used before there was a search engine in every blog.
You will not wind up with 28 hours in a day by reading the book, but you will discover any number of new ways to see time, feel time, experience time and tell time.
Reading the book is like visiting with Marney herself. She chats about her life, using events in her and her family's life to illustrate points. You get to know her struggles with a genetic bone disorder (when a foot surgery takes a year to heal, your sense of time has to become uncomfortable) and the wonder of her son's experiencing life. She uses the stories and artwork from the coaches she trains, and she invents words like Wellativity and Artsignment. The book is pure, authentic Marney from first page to last. She never abandons you on a single page of the book.
You can use the book as a workbook--there are step-by-step how-tos and assignments to help put to use what you have just read. I have a big weakness for books written for kinesthetic readers, and this is fully one of them. You learn by doing. She doesn't tell, she shows. You can't stay grumpy and you can't avoid participating. It is a personal tour through her vision of time. Even better, through her experience of time. You come away with new ideas and new ways to manipulate the time you want to repeat. (Not having a good time? There are ways to speed up the experience of time, too.) Reading the book is a workout in a mental gym. That's what a kinesthetic book will do for you.
The book is richly illustrated and designed to keep you moving, reading, empathizing and making time bend to your will. Marney wouldn't have it any other way.
Disclosure: Marney sent me a review copy at no cost to me. My curiosity (and need for more time) would have driven me to pay for it, but I'm thankful for the generosity.
May 9, 2012
At last! A really beautiful, colourful book about dealing with Time in a way that is great fun, with practical exercises that ignite your imagination and tickle your soul, helping you to work with time in a different way.
An exquisite pleasure to browse and read, I loved reading Makridakis' concepts and the fun, playful way in which she introduces you to them. The quality of artwork contained within this book is seriously incredible, with some fantastic artists showcased within.
The best bit of this book, for me, is the knowledge that I can dip in and out and play with Time, and the very Essence of Time, whenever I wish; Makridakis' ARTsignments are powerful tools for transforming your life, as well as time, and I am having so much fun playing with Time at my own place. This books shares with you so many gifts, not least the reality that yes, you ARE a creative - just by your very existence.
Brilliant book! A workshop (or 10!) in one volume - love it.
An exquisite pleasure to browse and read, I loved reading Makridakis' concepts and the fun, playful way in which she introduces you to them. The quality of artwork contained within this book is seriously incredible, with some fantastic artists showcased within.
The best bit of this book, for me, is the knowledge that I can dip in and out and play with Time, and the very Essence of Time, whenever I wish; Makridakis' ARTsignments are powerful tools for transforming your life, as well as time, and I am having so much fun playing with Time at my own place. This books shares with you so many gifts, not least the reality that yes, you ARE a creative - just by your very existence.
Brilliant book! A workshop (or 10!) in one volume - love it.
January 19, 2017
I came across this book just as I was trying to reconceptualize my own idea of "I don't have enough time!" And I did find it provocative and playful... although--and I find this is a criticism I throw at almost everything these days!--I also found it overwritten. It could have been much shorter and tighter. The author does provide a "if you're short on time--and if you've picked up this book, you probably are!" cheat sheet for those who want to cut to the chase, so perhaps this complaint is unfair. And it is a visually stunning book, so a pleasure to leaf through. I think the core content, though, is spread a little more thinly than it could be.
Still, I very much enjoyed reading through it and appreciate the paradigm shift it offered. I am now off to create more time for myself...
Still, I very much enjoyed reading through it and appreciate the paradigm shift it offered. I am now off to create more time for myself...
November 9, 2012
I've waded through numerous books on managing time over the years, have taught workshops on the subject, and considered myself very knowledgable. Marney made me feel like a novice! Her book is over flowing with creative and innovative activities and concepts, and colorful illustrations to stimulate this right brained thinker. She takes us beyond linear time to view incorporate gratitude, synchronicity, visualization and more. Her explanation and blending of kronos (chronological and predictable) and kairos (boundless, with no beginning or end) is worth the price of the book!
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