Growth Minded Celebrations and Disagreements

🤔 INTERESTING

This has been an ongoing theme this year for me: trying to remember that life is more than work.

📐 DESIGN

One of the most common issues creators face when visual thinking is speed of execution. The main reason for this is a lack of a system to help avoid falling in the trap of “pixel pushing.”

I do two simple things that help me speed up my workflow and make it less likely I waste my design time on moving elements around:

1) Brainstorm on LARGE sheets paper (I use 11×17) or a journal (my notebook of choice if interested) with a pen because:
• No way to erase forces efficiency and an attitude of imperfection
• Having a large canvas allows for multiple iterations on the same page

2) Design on Canva to get a sense of where things should go.
• Canva can be a great free tool to test how things will look with colors and design
• Can speed up getting sizing and proportions of different elements without worrying about drawing

Here’s a before and after of a cheeky version of the productivity jar meme I made this weekend.

🔮 ENCHANTING 

Inspired by an excerpt from Sahil Bloom’s Curiosity Chronicle Newsletter:

“Your success is not determined by your achievement of the extraordinary, but by your ability to show up, day-in, day-out, and lay one new brick in your life's wall.”
-Sahil Bloom

🧠 ANALOGY

When I disagree with someone, I often assume I already know what they’re gonna say before they say it. This approach has rarely if ever helped me resolve an issue.

So over the last several months, I’ve made a concerted effort to prompt myself to stay curious in arguments (helps a lot in relationship squabbles).

I simply do this through asking questions. What’s critical (and didn’t initially come natural to me), is avoiding leading or rhetorical questions. They’re only helpful if they’re earnest questions.

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