How can time pass so quickly?!?!  In the past year I have had such a variety of work and experience there has been no time to capture them.

When I started working as a graphic designer I thought I would be just doing the same type of projects over and over… I thought, layout, art, typography… okay that is what I need to know.  WRONG!  That is just the surface and in some ways the very last step.

The last few months I have plunged into the world of advertisements for horse shows, tattoo artwork, and of course my job at Fluke has me illustrating everything from biomedical equipment to calibrators.  With each project I am learning that you have to approach each in a different way and that each time the mind grows in a new direction!

Working with a diverse set of clients I have had to really slow down and make sure I am listening to their goals and what their vision.  Slowing down when the pace has increased has been difficult to say the least, but I have to say because I have had to work quickly I was able to get some very interesting results.

The two things that I have to remind myself:

Every day is an opportunity to learn.

Just because something failed does not mean I am a failure!

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.  – George Bernard Shaw

Change… why do I resist it?  Because it feels uncomfortable? Scary? Reckless?  Without change then we do not move or grow or learn.  We do not learn how to push ourselves and we do not learn how to relate to others.  Change in many cases is involuntary and happens every second of every day of our lives.

So, it is 2017, a new year and I am going to embrace change this year.  This is not a New Years resolution but just a time to invite change in instead of trying to avoid it. I am going to embrace what I don’t know and make a change by continuing to learn and explore.  I am going to take steps and be resolved to not always know where I am going.  I am going to spend less time on listing the reasons “I can’t” and focus more on the reasons “I CAN”.

This should be fun!

Photo credit: Andrew Neel