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I think the greatest lesson I learned in college was from my graphic design instructor that taught me the importance of valuing my limited time. “Charge twice as much even if you only get half the job offers you’re earning the same and doing half the work.”
It came off lazy when he first talked about it but I realize there’s a limit to how much you can put 100% into and taking on too many jobs eventually the quality of your work will suffer no matter how hard you work and how many hours you devote to it.
I realized today a lot of my life has been slipping up because I’m taking on too many different projects and I need to take some of them off the back burners and toss them out. There’s so many things I’ve wanted to do for over a year that are just taking up space in my brain
I’ve always had a problem saying no to anything, I’d rather risk failure than not try. I could be totally overwhelmed at the breaking point and still say yes to more work. I need to start taking responsibility for saying I’ll do something be realistic about what I can actually do
I think back to the times I just said yeah to someone and agreed to something I didn’t finish and it cost them time or money. I always excused it away as there was nothing I could do because at least I tried but it would have been better for them if I hadn’t and just said no
This isn’t a “boo-hoo I work so hard” sympathy thread this is a “sorry I’m an idiot I’m trying to fix this” thread. I wanted to make it so I wouldn’t just forget and not change anything
