Dailydoodle

 

Make good use of your time.
時間をうまく使おう。

 

You want to focus. But people around you interrupt you all the time. What would you do?

Going to the office earlier—say, thirty minutes earlier—is one of the solutions. You can prioritize the things you need to do for the day, or actually do some of them without less interruption. That thirty minutes can be worth an hour or two in the middle of the day.

When it comes to productivity, how much you try to do doesn’t matter; quite often, how you make yourself concentrate matters.

 

 

Adopt a beginner’s mind.
初心者の気持ちでいよう。

 

When was the last time you learned something new?

When was the last time you made a mistake that only a novice does?

When was the last time someone laughed at you because you messed up something you were not good at?

We tend to hesitate to learn from scratch, especially after we get older, because we don’t want to feel embarrassed.

But when we stop learning something new, we stop growing—and our skill-set starts deteriorating. If we don’t want to see that happening, we must adopt a beginner’s mind—at least from time to time.

 

 

Celebrate your independence.
独立を祝おう。

 

How free are you?

We often get trapped. We sometimes don’t even notice that we are trapped.

By our employer. In the past. Into implanting a false belief that we are not good enough. And we give up on our dreams without recognizing that we are giving up on them. That’s mental slavery.

If you have something you really want to do in your life, you don’t want to waste your life away. Work harder and smarter, and declare your independence. If you keep working harder and smarter, someday you will be able to celebrate it.

 

 

Get what you deserve.
相応のものを手に入れよう。

 

If you pay less for creative services, don’t expect more. You only get what you pay for.

Creative services will never be like manufacturing. There is no economy of scale. You might think that cloud sourcing site is quite cost-effective and time-efficient, and it would be true in a sense; but it can also be quite quality-ineffective.

None of creative professionals wants to be like expendable items. If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional, don’t do so; you still don’t deserve it.

 

 

See how it works.
どう役に立つか調べよう。

 

It’s not easy to define what the ‘right’ design is.

There seem to be many ‘wrong’ designs, but each design has its purpose. As long as the purpose of a design is fulfilled, that design is successful—even if it looks ugly or wrong.

In that sense, we might have seen too many beautiful designs that doesn’t always serve its purpose.