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Jocelyn K. Glei Books

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Jocelyn K. Glei es escritora, editora y conferencista estadounidense especializada en creatividad, productividad y trabajo significativo.

Known for: Make Your Mark: The Creative's Guide to Building a Business with Impact, Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind, Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done

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Defining Purpose

Before any blueprint, before any brand strategy, comes the question that every creator must ask: Why am I building this? In *Make Your Mark*, I start with the idea that clarity of purpose isn’t optional—it’s the very foundation of meaningful entrepreneurship. A creative business loses direction when...

From Make Your Mark: The Creative's Guide to Building a Business with Impact

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Vision and Leadership

Once purpose is clear, leadership becomes the art of turning vision into momentum. Creative leadership isn’t about command—it’s about clarity and inspiration. In these pages, contributors like Jesse Thomas and Tim O’Reilly emphasize that vision works as a guiding light for teams navigating uncertain...

From Make Your Mark: The Creative's Guide to Building a Business with Impact

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Part I – Building a Routine

The foundation of creative mastery lies in consistency. Many of us cling to the myth that creativity is spontaneous—that brilliance strikes in flashes of inspiration and can’t be structured. In truth, the opposite is often more accurate. As Scott Belsky writes, routines are not restrictions; they’re...

From Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind

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Part II – Finding Focus

Focus, in our age, is rebellion. The second section dives into the relentless challenge of distraction—especially digital distraction—and explores how to cultivate uninterrupted attention. Tony Schwartz reminds us that the human brain is not designed for constant activity. The key to sustained focus...

From Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind

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Understanding Email Anxiety: How Constant Connectivity and Inbox Overload Create Stress and Distraction

Email anxiety isn’t just irritation at too many messages—it’s a psychological condition shaped by our environment and behavior. Each incoming message represents a potential obligation, a tiny decision point, and together they form a digital thicket we perpetually navigate. The human mind isn’t wired...

From Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done

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The Psychology of Communication: Why People Feel Compelled to Respond Quickly and How Social Expectations Shape Email Behavior

Deep down, most of us hit reply not because we want to, but because we fear the consequences of not doing so. My research and interviews with creative professionals reveal how deeply rooted this compulsion is in our need for belonging and approval. Email plays into social reciprocity: we equate fast...

From Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done

About Jocelyn K. Glei

Jocelyn K. Glei es escritora, editora y conferencista estadounidense especializada en creatividad, productividad y trabajo significativo. Fue editora fundadora de 99U, una plataforma de Adobe dedicada a ayudar a los creativos a llevar sus ideas a la acción.

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