This week we were asked to create a personal manifesto, a document that reflects on aspects of your life such as your goals, rules and guidelines. It also highlights the areas in which you want to grow, and helps you to commit to what you feel is important. Writing out your manifesto ensures you won't forget these goals and helps you to stay focused on obtaining them. Your manifesto is not etched in stone, so remember that it is something that you may visit and re-develop many times over different stages of your lifetime. Always be creative, honest and most of all inspiring.
My Personal Manifesto:
1. Allow for creative growth be observant of the world around you. Collect inspiration and harvest ideas from what you see and experience.
2. Never stop learning; listen, understand and most of all question things.
3. Strive to always produce ‘my best’ possible work, set my own standards and don’t settle for anything less. Know your limits and how to push them.
4. Never be afraid to take risks, think outside the box and learn to not always play it safe.
5. Always do my best to follow through on my commitments, and uphold my end of any agreement, for this helps to shape you are as a person and as an employee.
6. Stay Organized, set goals for yourself.
7. Flexibility is key, everything doesn’t always go as planed, learn to roll with it and not be so stressed.
8. Indulge in personal and guilty pleasures after all we only live once.
9. Get away and change up the scenery, whether it is a vacation somewhere or just a day outside the office and away from the computer.
10. Always be true to yourself, know what you stand for and what you believe in and remain grounded. Keep that strong sense of self.
11. Surround yourself with people you love. Make time for family and friends for they are what matter most. Cherish and nurture these relationships.
12. Stay Active; be sure to take care of yourself both mentally and physically.
13. Allow time to reflect on your work and yourself.
14. Never go to bed angry, and always look at each day as a new opportunity.
15. Love what you do, that way it won’t ever feel like work.
