Re-Design Your Focus
— Time Management for Creatives with Donald Roos
Doing a lot and being busy doesn’t mean you get a lot done. Most professionals don’t have a time problem—they have a priority problem. Join best-selling author Donald Roos to turn his famous “To-Don’t List” philosophy into your personal career roadmap. Over two afternoons, you’ll audit your current path, kill the distractions, and build a precision-engineered plan for what actually matters. Don’t work harder—work with a better system.
Upcoming workshop dates
We believe in the power of real-time collaboration, so no recordings—just hands-on learning. Limit: Strictly limited to 15 participants to ensure individual mentoring.
If you have any questions about the course, feel free to email us at franziska@schoolofsystems.org.
May Session
When:
Friday, 8 May 2026, 15–17h CEST
Friday, 22 May 2026, 15–17h CEST
Price: 250€ + VAT
Location: Live online, Google Meet
Please note: This workshop will not be recorded.
Language: English
About the workshop:
As creative people, we have ideas. Some of us have many ideas, others have really good ones, and most of us have many really good ideas. But most of these never see the light of day. Why? If you ask a creative person, the answer will always revolve around time. We simply need time to execute an idea (and do it well)―more time than we have. This workshop focuses on how to make choices about everything you do in your daily creative practice and life. It follows the ‘To Don’t List’ method: When you say ‘no’ to one idea, you have more time to execute another one. In short: the more you subtract, the more focus and time you get.
Workshops are open to students, professionals, and curious creative minds of all ages and experience levels.
Outcome: Participants leave with a clear, personalized “To Don’t List” that helps them intentionally cut non‑essential ideas and commitments so they can focus time and energy on executing the creative work that matters most.
Required: Laptop
About Donald
Donald Roos is a creative entrepreneur based in Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Trained as a (typo-)graphic designer at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, he sets up and runs projects with other professionals from different fields. Like many creatives, he has too much to do and too many ideas, so he came up with the ToDontList method.
Together with co-writer Anne de Bruijn, he previously published Don’t Read This Book — Time Management for Creative People (30.000 copies, translated into seven languages) and Don’t Buy This Book — Entrepreneurship for Creative People. Their latest book is If You Don’t — Economics for Creative People / Saving the World by Doing Nothing. They also developed the thought experiment game called Don’t/Do This.
Based on his ToDon’tList philosophy, Donald strongly believes that limitations stimulate creativity. Whether it is time management or saving the world, making choices not to do something can be very effective. Deciding not to do everything, but making choices about what is really essential, defines your identity and your projects. It makes you stand out from the crowd. This is what you will learn in the course.
