DISCLAIMER: Proceed at your own risk!! If this first post was the pilot episode of a dramatic sitcom, it would be one where you just hopped right in the deep end with no context. Maybe it's for added effect to somehow reflect how I feel at the moment - in the deep end learning to swim while also being pelted with a hundred little blow up floaties I have to somehow inflate while treading water and hoping I'll soon blow up enough to keep me above water soon. Phew! But one day soon I'll have a floaty castle. And you're invited to that future party. Anywho, without further ado...
Oh man, how cool! My very own website, and I can even blog! How darn cool. With everything going on in my life, writing would be pretty helpful...maybe help me stay a bit more chill and calm.
My website, especially this section, feels like an empty room with squishy white walls I can bounce my ever flowing ideas off of. Maybe they'll bounce to you and you can bounce them back with some added flair? I could dig it.
But life though? Well...yesterday was productive to say the least. From an actual meeting, to a phone meeting, to arranging a meeting...to getting my lazy butt back on Flickr, updating other social media accounts, making connections, listening to Gary Vaynerchuk's book, "Crush It" twice in a row, uploading products to Society6, (I will link to that below), signing up for Tumblr, debating about Twitter, and finishing editing my first wedding photos...while more importantly spending time with a friend I've missed dearly. She kept me sane.
Straightforward and motivating book. Basically Shia Labeouf saying "JUST DO IT" but in slightly more detailed terms.
Did I learn anything? Heck yes I did.
The most helpful thing I learned in terms of productivity yesterday was a few Photoshop shortcuts that will save me an incredible amount of time in the future. It helped me get through the nearly one thousand wedding photos a whole lot quicker than I thought possible. In a way, I'm thankful I took such a massive amount of photos since it helped me figure out something I otherwise would have never thought to do. Which I then can extrapolate into a life lesson...
TIme to drop the wisdom. Are you ready? I don't know if you are...Alright here it is. Even though everything has been such a roller coaster and things are difficult right now, I know that the most growth happens when things are most difficult. So, I am always forever thankful for hardships. And that's what makes me enjoy every minute. That's why I still have my smile - I know that it's all so worth it! Those difficulties mean that I'm learning! Push the barriers and boundaries away, or better yet, make them bend to your desire. Make your own rules. Let yourself sparkle, you beautiful being.
Below is a link to my Society6 shop I've been working on. I still have a ways to go on it, but feel free to pull back the dusty curtain and peek.
https://society6.com/marylizart