Most of my work is done on a screen with a keyboard. It is terribly efficient, organized, and synced to the cloud.

It also gets somewhat routine, and I find it sometimes stifling my creativity.

Recently I stood in front a freshly cleaned white board with some markers. I began scheming, making marks, erasing, and making some more marks.

It was exhilarating.

Of course, in a nod to the digital world I took a photo of my masterpiece and emailed it to myself so I could take the next steps…on a screen and a keyboard.

Sometimes productivity and creative work is best done by old methods that get linked with modern advances.

If you have not recently schemed in front of a whiteboard or on a yellow legal pad, I highly recommend it.