Creative Systems Lab by Amanda Grace Design
★ Free Claude skill

The Claude skill that fixes the tasks you keep avoiding.

Built on James Clear's Atomic Habits. Tuned for creative business owners who keep dodging the wholesale catalog, the licensing pitch, the Etsy SEO, and the email they've rewritten five times. Six tools. One avoided task at a time. Yours free.

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    This is not about generating art with AI. This skill helps you run the business around your art — the catalog, the pitch, the upload, the email you've rewritten five times. Your art stays yours. Always.

    What's inside.

    Six tools built on James Clear's 4 Laws of Behavior Change. Each one targets a different reason your creative brain dodges business tasks — and rebuilds the task so the avoidance stops.

    01
    Procrastination Diagnosis Tell it what you keep avoiding. It names the law you're breaking and the environmental trigger enabling the dodge.
    02
    Task Redesign Takes one avoided task and rebuilds it from scratch using all 4 Laws. Obvious, attractive, easy, satisfying.
    03
    Phone Distraction Elimination An app-by-app audit with a friction plan. Distractions harder to reach. Business tools easier. No willpower required.
    04
    Procrastination-Proof Work Session A full session designed for you: 2-minute pre-work ritual, environment setup, time structure, completion reward.
    05
    The 2-Minute Rule Shrinks every avoided task to a tiny physical first action under 2 minutes. Then anchors it to an existing habit.
    06
    Never Miss Twice For when you keep quitting after one missed day. Builds a same-day recovery trigger and a minimum viable version of each habit.

    Who this is for.

    Surface pattern designers, illustrators, makers, Etsy/POD shop owners, licensing artists, coaches — anyone running a creative business who keeps starting the catalog, the pitch, the upload, the email at 80% and never finishing.

    Real talk: it's not a discipline problem. It's an environment problem. James Clear figured this out in Atomic Habits and the book has been quietly running through every productivity conversation in the creative business world for years. I built it into a Claude skill so you can actually use it on a Tuesday at 9pm when scrolling Instagram feels easier than opening that Canva file again.

    Mandy Corcoran

    Hi, I'm Mandy. I'm a working surface pattern designer (licensed by Nordstrom, HomeGoods, TJ Maxx, and Sand & Fog) who spent 25 years in tech before that. I've spoken on multiple AI summits and teach creative business owners how to use Claude to run the business around their art. This skill is the system I use on my own avoided tasks.

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