Every Professional Was You

Hello Creatives!

At one point, every professional or admired colleague, was you. They started somewhere and became someone. The road to success only happens when you begin. You can nor succeed or go anywhere if you don't start. Get ready, begin!

Start?

You have a dream, or dream career, but where do you start to achieve that? How do you become like the people you idolize?

Start with your best skills

Master your strengths

Share your skill

Learn what you don't know

Strengthen your weaknesses

Start with what you know, your best skills. This will keep you confident as you reach toward your goals. When you work with your best skills, you naturally would like to show them off. Feel free to showcase your work and best skills by sharing it on social media, aka self-promo. People love to see work from passionate creators. When you produce great work with your best skills, it boosts your confidence to learn new skills.

Once you start sharing your work, you can learn new skills to broaden your reach. Success is a journey, the more skills you master, the farther you can go. These days there are a multitude of tools to help you, including Skillshare that allows you to start for free, as well as Adobe Creative Cloud on YouTube. They provide tutorials and live streams with real design professionals where you can interact with them and other creatives who attend. This can be a long process so patience is key. Remember it's all experience to benefit you and turn your weaknesses into strengths.

IT's TOO MUCH

Learning new skills can be overwhelming, especially when you realize all the things you don't know, don't stress out. Pacing yourself and creating a schedule for learning will help you stay on track and avoid burnout.

Perseverance is your friend , don't allow small mishaps or early failures dishearten your resolve to learn new things. It's okay if you find this difficult, you may not be successful the 1st time, or the 2nd, or the 5th. No successful professional ever reached their success by giving up.

"Many of life's failure's are people who did not realize

how close they were to success when they gave up"

- Thomas A. Edison

Don't give up, take a break when you feel overwhelmed and come back to it. You will conquer the hurdles, remember patience is key.

SUCCESS in STAGES

Many interviews and autobiographies with career professionals frequently say that success is for only a moment. Success is fleeting but when it arrives, it's exciting. It sticks around long enough to inspire and motivate you to keep going. Success has a different definition to everyone based on how you measure it.

What is success to you?

Cameo in a prestigious magazine

Live television interview

Global recognition

1st time published

1st product sale

However you measure it, success can happen even if the success is small. Don' t filter out the little victories that could mean success to those who admire you.

Every professional was you when they began their journey, you can reach the success you want. Get ready, begin!

See You Soon Creatives!