This year has been pretty complex for me. I turned 30 in January, and I took a leap of faith and started school at a design school to pursue my longtime dreams of being able to express myself creatively, artistically, and freely. This in turn will result in creating my own business. My ideas have been running wild in my mind for years, but it's taken so long to be and stay inspired.
While sitting in my computer applications class for fashion merchandising a few Friday's ago. My instructor shared some stories with us . One of them was a video of Gary Vaynerchuk. An entrepreneur, investor, author, public speaker, and Internet personality. Since he showed us this video I've been listening to him speak, as well as other public/inspirational speakers, and one of the things I've taken away from him is something he said.
YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND YOUR OWN PERSONAL DNA.
DON'T DO THINGS BECAUSE I DO THEM OR STEVE JOBS OR
MARK CUBAN TRIED IT. YOU NEED TO KNOW YOUR PERSONAL
BRAND AND STAY TRUE TO IT!
-Gary Vaynerchuk
This stood out to me as an aspiring artist/entrepreneur! In the past I've looked at others work, and thought. I could do that! When I finally realized that I need to work on my own creative self, and be free to get in touch with my own personal DNA. My personal brand is something I've been investigating this last quarter, and it's been a great relief to realize my strengths, and my weaknesses. I'm learning to focus on what I AM good at and not to let the things I'm NOT good at stop me from being successful. In the end I might end up even being great at those things I sucked at! The point is to keep at it. Don't loose momentum. Stay inspired. Make sure you surround yourself with inspiring individuals!! My inspiration has come from pushing myself to go to class after I've worked an 8 hour shift, and don't feel like sitting in class for 3 hours, but I go anyway. Only to find out that the class was inspiring in itself to be able to sit with my peers, and my instructor and critique our work together. Hearing other people talk about my work and give there critique has made me realize it is necessary to keep these types of people around me even past my education!
This summer has been inspiring. I'm finishing my last two weeks of summer quarter , and moving on to fall quarter at VMCAD! Although I took an unexpected break from teaching young ladies to hand sew, and inspiring them to be creative I feel it was necessary to do some soul searching in order to help them further!
So here I go again to explore myself, and work on my own personal brand, and know my own DNA!
As always stay inspired!!! It's the only way to push yourself to success!!!!
