I have been listening to an audiobook called in The World Beyond Your Head and Chapter 9, The Presentation of Self, has really been sticking with me and I thought I’d share. In the past, there were more trades people and a person would received his identity through his vocation. He was successful and viewed as successful…
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The good you do
“We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know” — WH Auden, poet People my age believe they can do good in the world. They seek it out. They hope that they can spend their lives making a difference in the world. Heck, just…
Confidence isn’t for you
One of my ongoing resolutions is to be more confident. This was not really accomplished last year and when New Year’s came around again, I didn’t actually make any promising. I realized that, besides my horrendous typos, I didn’t have bad habits that I was treating to break. Rather, my resolutions were me trying to…
“Make your habits gold”
I finally made that habits post I promised you! Some of it might be old hat for my two blog fans, but if you’re curious, check it on out Medium!
My “Blinding Flash of Obvious”
My dear friend Sarah shared this phrase with and I experienced it this week: A blinding flash of obvious. I am absolutely obsessed with defining myself. I probably have always been, a little bit, but after I graduated from college it intensified. It was like this furnace in the basement of my mind that was…
Week 4: Letting go of holding on to everything
Grad school must be working or something, because all I can think about is design and my environment and the relationship between everything. Sometimes I feel really dumb and that I just can’t critically think about anything that’s being talked about in class, but when I go home, read articles, or notice something, there it…
5: Reasons I don’t like ‘rush projects’
I am in a constantly resolving never to take last-minute projects and agreeing to them. They cause me stress and they put me in situations I don’t need to be in. I realized that in some cases I was diminishing my own happiness and worth and after reading this great article about saying ‘no’ promised that…
Meg Jay: “Why 30 is not the new 20”
“Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that’s an investment in who you might want to be” Carissa sent me this with hesitation saying it would either motivate me or antagonize my fretful nature. Meg Jay is a clinical psychologist who’s talk is about making the most of our 20s, contrary…
Who & Why
I’ve been thinking about design a lot lately and what I want to do. This is the first time I have been able to dedicate myself completely to graphic design and that my time hasn’t been split up between communication and design (not that I’m complaining, I enjoy both). I’ve been thinking about the designers…
What are you waiting for?
I wrote a post a few days ago but couldn’t bring myself to publish it because I sounded like such a ditz. It was about how much I love learning and school and being a nerd—things that are difficult to make interesting to others and hard to convey without sounding like an suck-up. So it…