Hi, I'm Ming!
I am a 3D designer and a marketing graduate who’s ready to build her career and pass on her trial-and-error knowledge so you can start your own.
After turning a big failure into my life’s greatest turning point, I learn one thing.
No matter our profession or goals, it’s our mindset, routines/systems, and living spaces that keep us going long enough to be masters at our craft and persevere against the challenges.
Together, let’s grow and make what we dream into a reality.
Hi, I'm Ming!
I am a 3D designer and a marketing graduate who’s ready to build her career and pass on her trial-and-error knowledge so you can start your own.
After turning a big failure into my life’s greatest turning point, I learn one thing.
No matter our profession or goals, it’s our mindset, routines/systems, and living spaces that keep us going long enough to be masters at our craft and persevere against the challenges.
Together, let’s grow and make what we dream into a reality.
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
prologue
Shortly after I graduated from college, I wanted to start my own business but failed.
My business failure had made a new me.
I went from a “do-it-all” perfectionist who bit off more than she could chew to a “do what matters” perfectionist who savors what she chose and skips her merry way to her next big career move, bloat-free.
So, how did I get out of a buffet of excessive planning, procrastination, and burnout and acquire the taste to embrace new challenges, failures, and uncertainties I will face when starting and maintaining a new endeavor?
Taking care of the human in us may be more important than we think.
“People never just do something once. They’ll inevitably repeat their past behaviors.”
Chapter 1: Rainbow after the rain
We must put ourselves into our career plans to keep us going on the long road ahead.
But it doesn’t come easy. I am no exception.
It took me 3 years of learning, actualization, experimentation, and self-reflection to come up with the Nivationist Principles. These principles give me the guts and the capacity to start, grow, and maintain a 3D design and digital marketing career.
- Create a critical, self-loving mindset
- Build personalized routines and systems
- Design productive and inspiring living spaces
“A quality workspace design leads to a less stressful and more productive atmosphere.”
But continuously learning on my own could be quite lonely. And keeping all of this new-found wisdom to myself is no fun.
Here are a few ways I can help you use these principles to power start your career.
- Want to share your creations with the world but stop short because you think you aren’t good enough or too late to start?
I will bring back your confidence. See how I will build my hobby into a career as a non-expert at age 26 with trial and error so you can balance your critical standards without putting yourself down and be ready for what’s ahead.
- Ready to proudly declare your hobby as a career to your friends and family but need to figure out how to market yourself or monetize your work?
I will give you the framework to find the best strategies. See how I learn, actualize, and test out marketing and monetization strategies first-hand to find the optimal workflow that still leaves time for you to live your passion.
- Want to build a career from your passion but have no idea where to start or constantly lose focus on your long-term business goals because you’re too immersed in just doing your passion?
I will put control back into your hands. See how I naturally blend routines and systems into my living spaces and everyday life to bring balance between having fun with our passion and building a sustainable career.
Chapter 1: Rainbow after the rain
We must put ourselves into our career plans to keep us going on the long road ahead.
But it doesn’t come easy. I am no exception.
It took me 3 years of learning, actualization, experimentation, and self-reflection to come up with the Nivationist Principles. These principles give me the guts and the capacity to start, grow, and maintain a 3D design and digital marketing career.
- Create a critical, self-loving mindset
- Build personalized routines and systems
- Design productive and inspiring living spaces
“A quality workspace design leads to a less stressful and more productive atmosphere.”
But continuously learning on my own could be quite lonely. And keeping all of this new-found wisdom to myself is no fun.
Here are a few ways I can help you use these principles to power start your career.
- Want to share your creations with the world but stop short because you think you aren’t good enough or too late to start?
I will bring back your confidence. See how I will build my hobby into a career as a non-expert at age 26 with trial and error so you can balance your critical standards without putting yourself down and be ready for what’s ahead.
- Ready to proudly declare your hobby as a career to your friends and family but need to figure out how to market yourself or monetize your work?
I will give you the framework to find the best strategies. See how I learn, actualize, and test out marketing and monetization strategies first-hand to find the optimal workflow that still leaves time for you to live your passion.
- Want to build a career from your passion but have no idea where to start or constantly lose focus on your long-term business goals because you’re too immersed in just doing your passion?
I will put control back into your hands. See how I naturally blend routines and systems into my living spaces and everyday life to bring balance between having fun with our passion and building a sustainable career.
Chapter 2: Getting Over Ourselves and play a part
The experts can show you how far dreams can go.
your peers are Often the ones who can fill you in on how to get there.
This blog almost didn’t make it.
Two years before the start of this blog, I thought starting blogs are only for experts who had fancy degrees, made millions, or just had it together.
At the time,
- I had 2 years of self-guided 3D interior design visualization with Blender, a popular, free 3D software.
- I had a 4-year-old marketing degree from Penn State University.
- I had countless hand-written reflections and plans showing that I was ready, but I still feel I’m not.
The thought of writing a blog that helps others start, build, and grow their career when I don’t seem to have all the answers yet sounds wrong.
But isn’t starting out the most difficult?
Aren’t we more eager to seek out the answers when we don’t know anything?
Expert opinions and research remain a vital part of our lives. They scale up the possibilities and shine light on the outcomes ahead.
But they could be too far ahead of us that their light might not reach where we are.
We’re left to figure out the details ourselves, which could be overwhelming. We might even quit midway.
I am here to shine light right where you are.
Not as a saint who has all the answers, but who…
- knows what its like to be in your shoes,
- researches topics that are immediately helpful and actionable,
- shares the right amount of what I learn without being overwhelming, and
- explains and demonstrates ideas, techniques, and skills that are easy to understand
Chapter 2: Getting Over Ourselves and play a part
The experts can show you how far dreams can go.
your peers are Often the ones who can fill you in on how to get there.
This blog almost didn’t make it.
Two years before the start of this blog, I thought starting blogs are only for experts who had fancy degrees, made millions, or just had it together.
At the time,
- I had 2 years of self-guided 3D interior design visualization with Blender, a popular, free 3D software.
- I had a 4-year-old marketing degree from Penn State University.
- I had countless hand-written reflections and plans showing that I was ready, but I still feel I’m not.
The thought of writing a blog that helps others start, build, and grow their career when I don’t seem to have all the answers yet sounds wrong.
But isn’t starting out the most difficult?
Aren’t we more eager to seek out the answers when we don’t know anything?
Expert opinions and research remain a vital part of our lives. They scale up the possibilities and shine light on the outcomes ahead.
But they could be too far ahead of us that their light might not reach where we are.
We’re left to figure out the details ourselves, which could be overwhelming. We might even quit midway.
I am here to shine light right where you are.
Not as a saint who has all the answers, but who…
- knows what its like to be in your shoes,
- researches topics that are immediately helpful and actionable,
- shares the right amount of what I learn without being overwhelming, and
- explains and demonstrates ideas, techniques, and skills that are easy to understand
less creative paralysis,
no putting yourself down
Start your 3D Design career with me, your fellow peer
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Mission 1
My first mission is to spread the feeling of companionship and give you a front-row seat on how I start, grow, and build my hobby into a sustainable career with the right mindset, routines/systems, and living spaces.
We grow and stumble together. You’re not alone.
Chapter 3: The Driving Force Behind Mission 1
Great change and thinking always trail behind the fruits others have left for us.
I didn’t come up with this from a puff of thought after some wall-staring self-talk, nor was I born into a family that already knows the ins and outs of the creative industry.
Rather, I grew up in Philadelphia with a modest Asian family who likes to play food Tetris in my bowl and quirky friends who went on a lengthy expedition to get chicken pot pies at Reading Terminal.
Fun aside, no self-help advice has given me as much drive to get back up and do what I need to do more than seeing how the people around me persevere after experiencing major setbacks.
"When We Are Among A Very Large Group Of People Who Seem To Share Our Ideas Or Values, We Feel A Rush Of Increased Strength And Validity, As Well As Communal Warmth Or Heat That Comes From The Feeling That We Belong. "
I feel a sense of unspoken camaraderie with them and, in turn, am reminded that whatever challenge I face is solvable and an opportunity for growth.
“We can do it, too” comes more naturally.
Growing our hobby into a career may be fun, but we will eventually run into challenges when doing something new.
Fortunately, some of our problems aren’t unique. There are parallels we can draw from others, even between you and me, to make our uphill journey to become who we want to be less uncertain.
Mission 2
My second mission is to protect you from distractions that may come from others, even me. I will give you the frameworks, strategies, and thought processes behind my career decisions with guiding questions on making it your own so you can mindfully pick and choose the tips, tools, and systems that work for your lifestyle and build a career that is still yours.
Full resource sets are available exclusively for Nivationist Newsletter subscribers.
Never lose yourself in the blind chase for the next secret to success.
Use my experience not as a blueprint but as a starting point to build on top of your own.
You can stay true to yourself and decide what to take on.
Chapter 4: The Driving Force Behind Mission 2
We get a headstart from what the others had already figured out.
But it’s even more important to use what we know to get to where we want to be.
No matter how related our challenges may be or how others’ solutions have inspired us, we’re unique in our own ways.
We may already have the lifestyles, habits, and ways of doing things ingrained subconsciously into our everyday actions before we stumble across a self-help tip, learning trick, or productivity hack that we wish to take in.
The idea is to keep an eye on what’s there to help us and improve from what we’ve built so far, both the good and the bad, without knocking down everything we have the second we hear the latest trick, tip, or hack that claims to change our life.
There is a fine line on the amount we should take in. Too “minimalistic,” we’ll be restraining ourselves. Too “maximalistic,” other people will be stepping on our toes.
From figuring out what to do after my business failure to starting my career with this blog, I had my fair share of self-help advice to help me connect the dots in my groggy potato days.
I could juggle multiple responsibilities, maintain the integrity and standards of my work, and create a safeguard against pitfalls that had caused my past failures.
However, if we chase mindlessly, it could be one of the biggest distractions that interfere with our actual work and make us lose ourselves in other people’s lives.
We need to be “mindfulistic,” meaning taking only the things that make the most impact in our lives and making the solutions work for us, not the other way around.
But it’s easy to be swayed when we are just starting. Surely, you want to build a career that’s 100% you.
Chapter 5: Moving Forward
Moving forward, I will provide free content showing my trial-and-error journey on cultivating my mindset, routines and systems, and living environment to power my career decisions. Through my experience, the lessons from the people before us, and the comments and responses you may kindly have for me, we’re in this together.
I will gradually push out courses, ebooks, 3D digital goods, and other products that keep this community afloat and pass down more value to you by creating valuable, first-hand marketing and monetization insights that you can use.
Not everyone is perfect. I am no exception. The pressure is high for me to build my career alongside many of you. There will be days when I’m waist-deep in self-doubt, fear, and instability. It happens to the best of us.
So please don’t expect a smooth ride, but do expect that I will lead by example with an unwavering drive to be better than I was yesterday and continue to be an honest and comfortable resource who can help you build your passion into a career from the inside out.
Thank you for reading along. It’s a long read, isn’t it?
I had the feeling we would be great companions and make a difference in each other’s lives. It’s weird for me to be the only one doing the talking, so I would like to learn more about you.
The best way to connect is to subscribe to my email newsletter below.
The choice is yours.
Let’s make our goals more real in the present and not just dreams in the distant future.
Chapter 5: Moving Forward
Moving forward, I will provide free content showing my trial-and-error journey on cultivating my mindset, routines and systems, and living environment to power my career decisions. Through my experience, the lessons from the people before us, and the comments and responses you may kindly have for me, we’re in this together.
I will gradually push out courses, ebooks, 3D digital goods, and other products that keep this community afloat and pass down more value to you by creating valuable, first-hand marketing and monetization insights that you can use.
Not everyone is perfect. I am no exception. The pressure is high for me to build my career alongside many of you. There will be days when I’m waist-deep in self-doubt, fear, and instability. It happens to the best of us.
So please don’t expect a smooth ride, but do expect that I will lead by example with an unwavering drive to be better than I was yesterday and continue to be an honest and comfortable resource who can help you build your passion into a career from the inside out.
Thank you for reading along. It’s a long read, isn’t it?
I had the feeling we would be great companions and make a difference in each other’s lives. It’s weird for me to be the only one doing the talking, so I would like to learn more about you.
The best way to connect is to subscribe to my email newsletter below.
The choice is yours.
Let’s make our goals more real in the present and not just dreams in the distant future.