💡 5 Tips I wish someone told me earlier when I started · The Bunker #16

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The other day I was taking a shower and I thought, wow, I'm still 21 years old but I've been at this for a long time, almost 10 years of my life working, studying, looking for resources, the best links, the best resources and so on. And I thought, the other day a friend asked me, what advice would you give me if I wanted to start.

Of course, you look back and you've read a lot of articles, you've watched a lot of videos, you've worked with a lot of clients... but, really, what would I take?

Well, I have come to the following conclusion. I have more tips, it’s hard to summarise 10 years in 5 tips, but let's start with the first 5:

📹🖌01: Create content, as soon as possible

• Breaks down the trust barrier: By sharing your knowledge with the world, you are ultimately sharing everything you know in some way. And this can seem inspiring to clients, to other designers, etc.
• Makes you realise what you know and what you don't really know: I think this is one of the most important pillars, because many times you think you know a lot of things but in reality you don't know that much. Creating content will help you understand what you know and what you still need to improve.
• Helps you synthesize communications. In the end you have to communicate content in a small space, creating content helps you to synthesise what is important and how to show it.
• It helps you communicate.
• It makes you known.
• You create a community of amazing people who help you grow.
• You expel their thoughts and store them in one place. Don't store everything in your head. At least I personally use it a lot as a repository, where I can deposit everything I know without fear of forgetting it.
• Find a job.
• Connect with professionals.

📆02: Stay consistent.

This is perhaps one of the best pieces of advice I could give. Personally, I think that consistency is really underrated, because of the doubts it sometimes generates. But if there is one piece of advice that most successful (and less successful) people repeat, it is that it doesn't matter what you do, but that you do it consistently.

• With consistency you will find motivation.
• Motivation is too versatile to rely on.
• It creates patterns of recognition (branding).
• It helps you stay on track when you don't see results.
• It helps you create habits.
• It helps you focus on clear goals.
• Improves your discipline.
• Eases difficult paths.
• Destroys uncertainty.

03: Ask anything you don't know.

• Don't be afraid to ask.
• There is nothing more honest than showing that you don't know and that you want to learn.
• It will save you time and hours. Don't ask for shortcuts, ask for access to new knowledge.
• Access to new knowledge.

🎠🏃‍♂️04: Train like an athlete. Enjoy the journey.

• Don't push yourself every day, make sure you enjoy the journey. Don't work at high intensity every day.
• Stay in your comfort zone most of the time, and get out of it eventually.
• Stay in your comfort zone, without breaking consistency. Instead of training 4h every 3 days, train 20 min, but go every day.

📐🥇05. Don't quit even if you don't see clear measurable results.‍

If we don't see results, we give up. No, trust, even if you don't trust. Remain constant and it will come.

🏋️‍♀️⚡06: Show up every day.

🧙‍♂️✨07: Practice makes perfection. Spend time learning, but also practicing.

Cheers, Jordi Espinosa.