September 1, 2024
How many How To Guides or tutorials do you need to read before you do the work yourself? How many tutorials will you need to follow? You can keep following tutorials and guides you’ll definitely become an avid learner, but at some point you’re going to need to take the leap and go out on your own. Set the number or the last one you’re going to buy, then put it on you to get take the next step.
August 31, 2024
Want to get better than others? Study from others. Subscribe to their Patreons, pin them on Pinterest, watch their YouTube, and emulate what they do. You’re not copying the artists, you’re studying them, and you’re listening to what they think about and process while doing work. The goal is to study and do your own thing from there.
August 25, 2024
You know the question, go find the answer. Tickets are good for work that is going to take more than 30 minutes to an hour. Anything else? Do you need a ticket? Don’t get me wrong, I’m big on describing my work so people can know what I’m doing. If it’s anything less than 30 mins, I group it together. I don’t create tickets that say – “Apply Bold”. If I’m working on Task X, and I get asked a question, I’ll answer the question, not create a ticket to answer the question at a later date. Presumably, you need
August 23, 2024
When you don’t know what you’re doing, I mean, quite honestly, you have no idea what you’re doing and you’re doing it for the first time – you have no idea what will happen when something goes wrong. “I didn’t realize – EVERYTHING – was using that component I was working on and now everything is down” (Never happens). But the more first times you go through, the more you think on your actions, the more you ponder the outcome and the more you worry, yes worry, about what happens when something goes wrong. It can become paralyzing as you
August 21, 2024
Ideas don’t grab people all at once. People all of a sudden just don’t get what you’re proposing – despite all the infinite possibilities that you ran through your head and all the great responses you’ve already built up. Traction takes time and oddly enough it doesn’t require you to go as fast as possible. Think of a vehicle going up a hill, do you floor it and go up full speed? Does that even work if you’re on a dirt road? It doesn’t, you drop a gear, build momentum, build traction, move forward, and then you get there. Traction
