Test new ideas, try new marketing campaigns or even attempt something crazy. If it doesn’t work out, oh well at least you tried. Maybe you spent a few thousand dollars to build a mobile app and it turned out to be a flop, that’s nothing really… at least you had the opportunity to be wrong. Plus, I’m sure you learned something and now the next time you try to build something you have experience to do it differently. 

I’m always trying to learn new tools and skills; sometimes getting value out of them and some even improve how I work. These new skills can sometimes make jobs easier, but even if they don’t work they give me the chance to look at what I’m doing in a different way. Many of the worlds best inventions and discoveries started out as a mistake. You often have to fail in order to find the right answer. At least people took the chance at something, even with the possibility of failure. Its important to try new things, you never know what can happen. Success or failure, its all part of the surprise that keeps work and life interesting.

Don’t be afraid of being wrong and one of the potentials of being wrong is that it really might end up being right. 

Everyone always wants to work on big brands like MTV, Coco-cola, Nike and Apple; its nice having those names in your portfolio and the work featured on your site. Besides the bragging rights, what else do you get out of working with these brands? You’re designs or animation didn’t necessarily help grow their business. The ad or work you did for them may have helped increase their profit but there are so many other factors involved when dealing with a large brand.

That’s one of the great things about working with startups and small businesses, they are changing so rapidly and when you do work with them, it matters to them. The work you do is meaningful to them; your not only getting paid but you’re helping this business to succeed. Yesterday a video I helped with was featured on TechCruch. It was just a quick little logo animation I did for them. They got some seed funding which means that they can continue doing their thing and hopefully continue to grow. When I saw this news it felt good to know that what I did may have helped a little. I’d like to think that maybe my work made a difference for this business. And I hope we can make a difference for many more businesses to come.

We are never more creative or curious then we were when we were kids. Children seem to have this boundless curiosity that makes them want to explore everything. Which at times can be exhausting, but it’s that curiosity that makes most kids have this abundance of creativity. The number one question they ask is “Why?” And soon “why” becomes “how?” This is the way I try to approach every project I’m evolved in. Asking myself, “how am I going to achieve this and how am I going to make it different from the last thing I worked on?” Or “how will this be different then the other guys project?” Without this curiosity, I know what I’m producing won’t be as creative as it could be. You have to be curious to identify problems that need to be solved in order for you to come up with new solutions. Next time ask yourself, “what would happen if I tried this…” and you might be surprised at the solutions you come up with.