Workflow Life: New Tools in the Box

Settling into a job that allows you to be creative as a designer and organizer is something I never saw for myself so soon. But here I am contentedly working on marketing plans for clients through my employer and reinvigorated with creativity planning for my freelance work.

Of course, I'm not exactly working at full speed on shiny calibrated gears, but I've assessed my toolbox and know what exactly I need to excel my productivity.

In fact, in the past two weeks, I've learned more through just sitting in a focused environment and not having to inhibit my creativity than I have in the past few months while I was freelancing in my free time. Granted, I'm still freelancing, but it doesn't have to be a skill I worry about training and completing in the dark hours of the night when I would sacrifice sleep for one to two side projects.

Pick and Choose the Chickens You Want to Hatch

When it comes to personal online branding, I've had people ask me, in anxious and sometimes frantic tones, if they need to open every social media site possible to create and cultivate their business brand.

Apprehension about transforming their private or personal Instagram, figuring out twitter hashtags and discussions, worrying about Facebook and the necessities of blogs....these are all very common and I'm here to tell you it's okay.

I still go through this myself. I was worried about separating my business and personal accounts. Here's how I came about it though, I realized, I allow people to see what I want them to see. Sure, you could look at my sidebar right now and find my Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Snapchat, LinkedIn...etc. but I've carefully thought through how I approached this.