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Strategies to Get (And Stay) Unstuck

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Madecraft

Strategies to Get (And Stay) Unstuck

Madecraft

Instructor: Madecraft

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4 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level

Recommended experience

4 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Build prioritization skills and habits to cut through competing ideas and make consistent progress.

  • Grow your creative confidence by reframing self-doubt, impostor syndrome, and perfectionism.

  • Optimize your time and energy using proven frameworks to achieve peak performance and flow.

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June 2026

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There are 5 modules in this course

You have more ideas than time, and that tension is exactly what keeps creative people stuck. In this module, you'll use three prioritization frameworks (the Pause mindset, Even/Over Statements, and Weighted Shortest Job First) to cut through competing possibilities and commit to what matters most right now.

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5 videos1 reading2 assignments

Knowing what to do is rarely the problem; the harder challenge is building the daily conditions that make doing it inevitable. In this module, you'll break your biggest goals into momentum-building pieces, design habits that are small enough to start and strong enough to sustain, and create the environmental and social conditions that keep you moving forward even when motivation runs low.

What's included

6 videos4 readings2 assignments

Getting unstuck is not just a planning problem. It is a psychology problem. When self-doubt, impostor syndrome, and perfectionism dominate your inner dialogue, no amount of productivity strategy will move you forward. In this module, you'll build the creative confidence that makes sustained action possible: rewriting the limiting beliefs that keep you stuck, reframing impostor syndrome as a signal rather than a stop sign, and replacing the perfectionism trap with a mindset that makes progress inevitable.

What's included

3 videos1 reading2 assignments

Feeling busy and feeling productive are not the same thing. In this module, you'll learn how to reclaim your time and energy for the creative work that actually matters: protecting deep work blocks using the 90/10 Principle, designing a personal week that balances Maker and Manager time, and deliberately engineering your environment and tasks for the flow states that unlock your highest creative output.

What's included

3 videos1 reading2 assignments

You've developed a powerful set of strategies for breaking through obstacles and building lasting momentum — now it's time to make them stick. In this module, you'll test your knowledge and leave with a clear action plan for continuing to grow your unstuck skills long after the course ends.

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1 video1 assignment

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