{"id":5506,"date":"2022-02-17T17:17:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T01:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jamiecavanaugh.com\/?p=5506"},"modified":"2023-11-01T04:03:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T11:03:58","slug":"what-do-you-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamiecavanaugh.com\/what-do-you-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Believe?"},"content":{"rendered":"
What do you believe about yourself as a designer?<\/p>\n
What do you think about you?<\/strong><\/p>\n Do you tell yourself you’re not good? Do you tell yourself other designers are better than you?<\/p>\n Do you believe you’re not enough?<\/p>\n Maybe you compare yourself to other designers at work, or to other designers who have a distinct style.<\/p>\n Your thought is that you don’t have a style, and therefore you’re not a great designer.<\/p>\n You feel unworthy.<\/strong><\/p>\n “I don’t have the right skills, Im not very good.” So you stay late at work and work harder than everyone in order to prove yourself.<\/p>\n You hustle.<\/em><\/p>\n But here’s the truth: you can’t hustle your way into being worthy or to feeling better.<\/em><\/p>\n Believing is deciding and accepting that something is true.<\/p>\n But it doesn’t make it true, it just makes you believe it is true.<\/p>\n Why do you believe the thoughts you have about yourself are true?<\/p>\n What we believe and focus our mind on is a choice.<\/p>\n What are you choosing to believe about yourself?<\/p>\n What you currently believe is based on your past. And your beliefs and thoughts create your results. So, if you do nothing, your past beliefs will create your future results.<\/p>\n Are you seeking evidence from your past to “prove” your thoughts about yourself?<\/p>\n How do your beliefs about yourself affect your work and the rest of your life?<\/p>\n Can you see how your thoughts about yourself, based on your past, have created the life you have today?<\/p>\n Do you have beliefs that are not serving you well?<\/p>\n By building awareness of what’s going on for you now, you can choose what you want to believe about yourself.<\/p>\n The first step is awareness. You must become aware of what you believe. You must become aware of what you are thinking.<\/p>\n Here’s the good news \u00e2\u20ac\u201d you don’t have to be stuck with old beliefs from your past. What you want to believe about yourself is based on your future.<\/p>\n What do you want to believe about yourself as a designer?<\/p>\n How do you want to think about yourself?<\/p>\n What do you want for your future?<\/p>\n You have to learn how to imagine the future you want. You have to learn how to visualize possibility.<\/p>\n Here’s the challenge: you’ll actually need to visualize impossibility<\/em>. Because you won’t believe it’s possible for you yet.<\/p>\n The first step is allowing yourself to imagine that you believe something, and then visualize yourself being, doing and having it, and then practice believing it.<\/p>\n What do you visualize for yourself that doesn’t yet seem possible?<\/p>\n What do you want for yourself and your future?<\/strong><\/p>\n Why do you think you can’t have it?<\/strong><\/p>\n It all starts with a belief.<\/p>\n A belief is a sentence.<\/p>\n You create a sentence, and then you create the result of that sentence.<\/p>\n Dreams are literally sentences realized.<\/p>\n Do you want help and guidance to work on this? How can you build awareness and move beyond your past thoughts to what you want for your future?<\/p>\n
\n“I have to work harder than everyone just to be an okay designer.”
\n“I don’t have a design style that’s my own.”<\/p>\nWhat do you believe about yourself?<\/h2>\n
What you believe is based on your past<\/h2>\n
What you want to believe is based on your future<\/h2>\n
Is it possible?<\/h2>\n