The key to turn our creative hobby into a sustainable career is to
Take Care Of The Human In Us.
This blog will give you a realistic, pressure-free, trial-and-error approach on how to transform your creative hobby into a professional career through self-directed learning, digital marketing, self-improvement, and productivity.
- Discover what a hobby-to-career journey may be like, and
- Fill in on the vital steps that the experts had left out from a creative career-starter, just like you.
ALL from getting an insider look at how I build my 3D design career from the ground up, right when it happens!
Nivationist
Origin: It comes from the word “nivation,” which refers to the geomorphic changes of rocks and soil caused by freeze/thaw cycles of ice and snow.
“Nivationist” comes from how we can reshape ourselves through time to be better adept as we move closer to our goals. Every small step against the cold failures and challenges will show its amplified importance every spring after the ice thawed.
A Better Career Philosophy Puts “You” Back Into The Equation.
Starting or transitioning into a new career is more than just knowing what to do.
Understanding who we are is critical for us to take the right action on what we know, consistently. We are our biggest variable in playing the long game, without being bogged down by distractions, self-doubt, and burnout.
From my past failures and years of trial and error, I’ve found the 3 Nivationist Principles. These principles will help you and me start our hobby-to-career journeys. One beginner step at a time, from building a sustainable self-learning/career plans to confidently market ourselves and money online.
THE 3 NIVATIONIST PRINCIPLES
Create a Critical, Self-Loving Mindset
Build Personalized Routines and Systems
Design Productive and Inspiring Living Spaces
Don't get brain-fried from experts who are farfetched or vague with their Advice.
Let me fill the gaps the experts left behind and test the waters for what's ahead.
Hi, I’m Ming, a 3D architectural designer with 2 years of self-learning experience, but I was too shy to show my work and start a career out of this hobby of mine. Until now.
I’m not a novice in 3D but hardly an expert. I have a marketing degree but have yet to use it to build my career.
Hence, I have similar questions, urgency, and emotions as you.
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& much more!
Don’t lose yourself because you feel alone, lost, rushed, and left behind on a long, uphill journey to become who you want to be.
Let’s stumble, learn, and grow together!
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Take a deeper dive into why it matters and What This blog does behind the scenes!
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Take a deeper dive into why it matters and What This blog does behind the scenes!
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What we have Now
We all want to be better at what we do.
Behind every addictive ping from our social media, we see what the others are doing. It allows us to imagine ourselves in other people’s lives. We’re exposed to hobbies, jobs, ways of living, solutions, etc., which makes us want to try it, too. In a way, it makes our mind more creative with endless ideas, opens up new possibilities for using our time, and sometimes taps into a potential we didn’t know we had.
We have a desire to live a more multifaceted life than ever before.
Naturally, we had our fair share of motivational advice, self-help tips, learning tricks, and productivity hacks.
Who doesn’t want to live a fulfilled life?
We’ve already taken the first critical steps on our uphill journey to become who we want to be. It’s amazingly proactive, and we should continue this learning mindset.
It is just that after knowing the tips and tricks to help us move forward, there comes the inevitable journey of how to use what we know to get to where we want to be.
The caveat is,
do you want to live your life to the fullest, or are you trying to live in other people’s lives to the fullest?
The Problem within the Good
Even something good could turn into a distraction.
We may motivate ourselves to be better by imagining ourselves in other people’s lives, but it could also make us undervalue our opinions, solutions, and self-worth. We may discover new ideas and possibilities and tap into our unknown potentials, but we could also be drowning in choices, getting high on trying something new, and unable to make a firm conviction of what we really want to do. We can quickly lose sight of ourselves and our long-term goals.
No wonder we feel that we’re not in control of our lives. We’re blindly chasing the next secret to success without truly putting ourselves first.
Additionally, the picture-perfect lifestyle we see on social media starkly contrasts reality.
We know it’s simply more comfortable for people to share the good times. We know that becoming successful comes with countless failures. We know that we’re capable. The overwhelming saturation of the good does help to jump-start our endeavors.
But when we’re at our lows, the overshadowed, under-televised, or absence of the bad makes our “natural precursor of success” struggles seem out of place, and we question our progress. It slowly drags our resolve into the ground.
No wonder we think we’re not good enough, left behind, too old, and feel alone in our journey to become who we want to be.
We feel alone and easily doubt ourselves because there is a lack of resources that allow us to realistically gauge and appreciate our progress.
How I can be a part of the Help
On this site, I wish to leave as many footprints ahead as possible on our uphill journey by showing honest, continual progress and reflection.
I share what works for me and give you pointers on what you can do to make it work for you. You use my insights as a starting point and build on top of your own. If you so choose, your comments and responses are highly welcomed as valuable insights and advice on my career, too, which creates a learning environment that lets us both grow and learn from each other. A double win-win!
There are parallels we can draw from each other that make us less fearful of failures, more confident of ourselves, and in control of our own journey.
We focus on the following 3 principles:
Great Learning Never Stops Midway
It’s a cycle of exponential growth that benefits both me and you.
What I do: My past reflections/insights and advice from others will be used build my mindset, routines/systems, and living spaces. I blend in the new found wisdom into how I plan, create, teach, market, and monetize my 3D designs in the ever-changing industry landscape with digital marketing.
What you get:
- Self-tested results or analysis about productivity, hire-ability, skill-development, self-improvement, marketability, monetization tips, and etc.
- Get a realistic experience on what's it really like to transform a hobby into a career through work-in-progress style blog articles.
- Feel the support and be heard of the struggles creatives we may face and solve our problems together, not just in words but through real actions you can see in this website.
- Frameworks, strategies, and guided questions on how to choose, remove, and blend new tools and ideas into our self-learning curriculums and career plans. The entire set of resources for this feature is newsletter-exclusive.
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