Today kind of felt like I was a kid again. I was the kid hanging out with his dad, his aunts, and his uncles.

3 good things

1. Got $50 from an uncle. Unexpected totally

2. Got to reconnect with a cousin I haven’t seen in 15 years

3. Got to ride the National Harbor Ferris Wheel with my dad

It’s interesting to be older and still feeling like a kid. I talked a little bit about this with my boss the other day. She talked about how she’s always the kid when it comes to hanging with her parents and she’s okay with that. For me, I’m okay with that if I’m with my dad. If I’m with anyone else though, it doesn’t feel exactly right. I’m very patient when it comes to this. It was actually kind of nice because I kind of just was sleeping most of the day.

This has been a good day of rest because as soon as I get back, I got a lot of things to do.

Oh also, today marks 2 months that I’ve been creating something every single day. I even got reached out to about being interviewed for my work.

While to me, it’s better to work smarter than harder, it’s better to be consistent than both of those. All I need to do is show up.

Showing up is important in the same way creating and posting on the days that I need to. Consistency is king for success. It’s the compounding effect that I’ve talked about a lot. I’m starting to get a bit of traction and I’ve met some failure along the way. Lost 35 bucks, didn’t do well on 2 dates, didn’t get an interview, but I tried. It’s important to keep trying and understanding that failure is research for the future.

Updating as soon as I get wifi. Got into DC and spending time with family. I made something, but don’t have wifi to upload.

Update 11:40pm

Got to the hotel with enough time to update this.

So I woke up today at 4:50am in order to get ready to leave for DC. Kind of nice, but also a little sad because I needed to leave Gemma behind. Gemma is my emotional support animal that I like to bring with me everywhere. However, since it’s such a short amount of time, I decided to just leave her behind with the care of my roommates and a good friend. So I left today and the subway was a little delayed over at like Bowling Green area and I was so annoyed because I don’t usually take the subway so my patience withers very quickly with the amount of time I have to wait on the subway. Also because the train I would’ve taken would take to long for me to get to where I needed to be. So I just hopped on the 5 train and was trying to figure out how to get to the Hudson. For some odd reason I thought I should get off at Grand Central and take the shuttle to Times Square and then walk to the Hudson, but then I realized I could take the 7 train to the 34 Hudson. So I took that and I didn’t realize how far underground it is because the elevator is like taking the tube in London. Anywho, took a minute to get onto the bus in the freezing brick. Got on the bus and was able to design this layout real quick. I even got to work a little bit on my adobe residency. Also, I got a meeting with a major figure in New York Skateboarding which was cool. I think it’s more of a mentorship type of thing so I’m happy.

Got to DC and it was funny, I was calling my dad and was waiting for a second and had to call my aunt to figure out that he was taking a shower. I decided to just take the metro and funny enough I had 20 bucks still on my card.

3 good things on 12/10

1. Still got to design

2. Saw my aunts (very happy to see them since I spent half of 2017 with them)

3. Took a small nap

I guess I’m on vacation for a little bit which is nice. Also, never buy food from the more touristy areas because they’re just super expensive. $4 for a raisin bagel with butter and a water. Ridiculous, but I had no other choice. Tomorrow will be 2 months of making something every single day. It feels good and hopefully I can continue doing it.

Jeezus. I just realized I haven’t watched a typography video today or yesterday. Well, reasons why. I went out and then I’ve been making another zine.

I feel like I get way too caught up in posting for instagram. I also just got connected to a major figure in nyc skateboarding so I wanted this to be on my instagram so when they look at it, they’ll see that I do some cool work around skateboarding. That I produce everything. However, I’m also coming to terms that as soon as I share, it’s just work and that I go immediately into the feedback and the research section. If anything, I get more profile visits on my page which is what I actually want. I just need to start tagging the right people.

3 good things

1. Learned how to get my bike in wheelie position (super psyched on this). I was biking in the street today nearby my apt and was just like, how come I’ve never tried to do this before in my life. So I tried to do it and I got the wheel to pop up and I realized I needed to just start pedaling). So I bike all the way to work and am at a dead street right before my office and I try it again with the small knowledge that I have and I get the front wheel off the ground and I got to pedal forward a little bit. I fell. However, super psyched though. I got to prospect park and just started trying to do wheelies. Several times the seat came out from under me, but I got into the wheelie position. I’m super stoked because I’mma have this down in 2 weeks

2. I got a connection to a major figure in skateboarding here. Really exciting. Like super stoked.

3. My dad flew safely over to DC. I need to pack.

So today has been a very good day. The one small bummer was that I didn’t get my film developed. As it turns out, I accidentally gave them an empty canister. I remember why that happened because it was the canister from the last roll that I accidentally exposed to light. I didn’t know that both of them were in my camera pouch.

Anywho, I need to pack.

I’m doing a lot better today. I listened to more James Victore today which helped kick me back into gear. He said a lot of things today in his videos such as Don’t listen tot he voices in your head that tell you to make nice work. No one will hear of you if you do that. He also said, “where your focus goes is where your goals are.”

Habits are human nature, how bout create some that make gold.

Something from Eleanor Roosevelt, “Do what’s right in your heart because you’re going to be criticized anyways.”

I need to start thinking higher of myself and my goals. Partially because I’ve just been thinking about instagram and getting big, but I think my goal should be moving towards getting discovered by the companies that I want to work with. I think I need to make stuff that is so cool that no matter what happens, people have to stop and look at it.

3 good things.

1. Slept in/ laid in bed for a little bit

2. Ate food

3. Went on a date

Now I need to design my zine/ work on an application however, I’m also like, dang I need to hangout with my dog. I feel bad for Gemma because lately I’ve just been so focused on creating and going on dates, I’ve been slacking on running with her even though it’s only been a day since our run. However, we haven’t run 3 miles in awhile.

I’m going to DC in 2 days. I’m excited. I get to go out of the city for the first time in I think 2 months??? However, I’ve been okay with just creating something everyday and meeting up with people.