Dealing with Rejection is something that I am thankful I learned how to deal with professionally. When it comes to feeling rejected it can be one thing that upsets you and or motivates you. When applying for a Job and you get the automated response that they have chosen another candidate its best to take it in stride and move on. Because I know we have the skills required to do the job and more.

There are many people out there that are willing to give us the opportunity. Better than wait for that opportunity make your own. Take the time to learn business, marketing and how to network and also selling products. There are many ways for a person to achieve their desired goals. Instead of waiting and hoping learn how to develop your skills to become more desirable.

Once you become more desirable know your worth and do not sell yourself short. By agreeing to take less than you know you should be earning. For example if you have the documented proof showing that you know what you are talking about there’s no wiggle room for them to short change you. Because there’s documented proof of hours upon hours of you perfecting your craft.

Personal rejection is I feel a thing that is dependent upon the overall person. A great example is how someone talks with someone they are interested in. If they get rejected sometimes they get upset and say rude things to and or about the person. The same thing can go for when you are working professionally with a harsh client. If you get your work rejected do not get upset and curse out the person.

Look inside first at yourself and think about how to handle it without getting upset. I talk about this because I have experienced rejection in many forms. At first I used to let my emotions control my response. Then I learned to stop and use my head to make smarter decisions. Nothing gets accomplished when you get angry and forceful.

Embrace rejection to motivate you and inspire you to pursue more. If someone rejects you for a job apply for another and if that client rejects your work talk with them on how to accomplish their desired goal.

The benefits of skateboarding are pretty large. I say that because skateboarding can teach someone what it takes to achieve something. Because there are many times that a person will be scared. By being scared I mean scared to the point of shaking and hesitating.

Being scared is something that we will always encounter in our life. The thing we tend to learn later on is how to deal with that fear. Whenever I get scared or hesitant about something in my life I use what I learned skateboarding. There are many other things I could have done but skateboarding found me.

The other thing that skateboarding taught me was how to connect with people. I say that because skateboarders come from all walks of life. But when you are on your board with your friends none of that matters. You can be the best dressed skateboarder but if you have a crappy personality and are rude you’ll be more likely to not have any friends to skateboard with.

The creativity that street skateboarding requires is like no other. Street skateboarding requires you to see something out of nothing. Riding around the streets and or your city to find spots to skateboard. There could be a school with steps and a church with a handrail. Also there could be a ledge in front of a gas station or bank.

Being in tune with your environment helps. Till this day even though I do not skateboard other than riding a cruiser around I look at the city differently. Therefore I translate that into my designing. Because to me creating something out of nothing is fun.

Seeing the progression in our work is another enjoyment. Seeing how far something and or someone who wasn’t as good as they are now is great to see. Because we know that there are countless hours of working that no body will see. Once we are ready we put it out there and show everyone what we have.

Learning to love being a graphic designer and or a creative person is not easy to do at first. Because there are many situations that try to tell us it’s useless. They say you’ll never make any money from your art. When they are just putting their beliefs in your head.

They people who do that are ones looking out for your best interest and they do not want to see you get hurt. There’s nothing wrong with them doing that at all. This leads back to you learning to love being a designer and or a creative individual.

There are many people who love creating. They are those who just create and never make much money from their work. The starving artist thing is not something that is true. I only see someone starving as an artist is when they do not learn the business of being an artist.

Being a creative person requires you to learn the business of sustaining yourself. Learning to love being a creative person should not lead you to quitting your job and you starving. Then which will lead you to taking on whatever jobs you can do to survive.

Fall in love with creativity the smart way. Avoid falling into the love of creativity that you fail be honest with yourself as a creator. If you are creating you are going to suck and or produce very poor quality work starting out. Loving the process of creating is an important part of being a designer.

This is a quote I heard recently from the Creative Peptalk podcast. When I first heard it I was at a loss for words. The reason why is because I focused so much on getting bigger instead of better. The aspect of having a lot of followers has been a thing that many of us want. When in actuality we should focus on getting better.

Because the idea of focusing on getting better is more important. Those who focus on getting more followers than having better work will have catching up to do. The reason why I focused so much more on producing better work is because I know I am producing great work. Having confidence in your work is what makes the difference.

There’s nothing wrong with being confident, but being a cocky asshole makes no sense. Because we all start somewhere and have produced sub-par work. But lets not get off topic here and stay focused.

There have been times on instagram that I am shocked by the amount of followers people have. But then I do a little digging and realize that they either know how to market themselves well and or they are caught up in the numbers. Because its easy to see who’s caught up in the numbers and appearing bigger than they actually are. The like to follower ratio is the giveaway.

Focusing on producing better work and dedicating yourself to being better than those with bigger followings will allow you to have leverage. I say leverage because whenever you have someone come across your work they will be in love. The main thing with all of this is to not forget that you have to share you work. Do not be afraid to do such a thing. Because I know that you have work many people would love to see.