This is how you can fast-track your way to your goals - exciting announcement inside 🤫
Want a quicker way to achieve your 2024 goals? Give yourself a challenge. I'm starting a 60-day creative challenge on the 1st of February - will you be joining me?
Happy Wednesday Creatives!
How are you finding January this year?
Are you ready for it to be over or are you feeling productive?
I’ve definitely felt a mixture of the two! You always want to start the year with a lot of energy but it’s finding sustainable ways to stay motivated (even when you don’t feel like) it is key 🔑
I’m curious to hear your top goals for 2024! Are you graduating from Uni this year and are planning your first career move or are you building your side hustle and want to take it to the next level?
My top goal for 2024 is to build my personal brand through LinkedIn. As creatives, it’s THE best platform you can use this year to get your work out there.
Unlike Instagram and TikTok, it’s not oversaturated with content (yet) and rewards active creators.
Also, if you’re not a huge fan of creating video content, it’s a great place to let your writing do the talking.
Will 2024 be the year you start sharing your work on LinkedIn?
Your creative news update of the week 🗞️
🛀 Rhode Skin cleanser bath bomb creates a splash
Working on a creative project that you need to bring to life? Try thinking about the entire experience from the moment someone sees your work. Rhode Skin launched an influencer campaign with their new cleanser hidden inside a bath bomb. Creating a great opportunity for viral content.
📣 Hate the idea of bragging about your work? This invention by Not W+K might just help
Are we ready to flip the norm about bragging being a bad thing? In the age of personal brand building, we need to get more comfortable with sharing our successes. Need help, use Not W+K new invention to help you out.
* Interrupting your weekly creative news update with an exciting announcement.*
🏆 Studio Self-Made secured £25,000 in grant funding from the Big Education Challenge!
I’m so excited to be able to finally tell you our biggest news yet!
In November I took part in a pitching competition for the Big Education Challenge.
Competing against 9 incredible young change-makers, I pitched Studio Self-Made to a panel of 6 judges fo up to £50,000.
Amazingly, we won 2nd place and have been awarded £25,000 to help Studio Self-Made grow this year!
Read more about it here:
We have exciting plans for this funding and how it can help as many creatives like you! Keep an eye out for future updates 👀
The Secrets Out! The Creator Project is landing on February 1st! 🤫
For the last 3 years, ‘create a video series’ has been on my goal list.
And every year, I procrastinate and I never get started.
Until I decided to try this.
Instead of simply adding it to my goals list again, I set myself a challenge.
Using my competitive streak to motivate myself.
So I came up with the idea of The Creator Project - a 60-day challenge where I create a video every single day.
Starting on February 1st - I will be following 5 simple rules every day.
The 5 rules of the Creator project:
Create something
Learn something
Share something
Do something for my mind
Connect with someone
You may ask, why would you set yourself 5 tasks to follow every day?
There are two reasons:
Because building a habit is the key to success.
And
I want to work on being unafraid of experimentation this year.
If I share 60 videos, it’s likely most of them won’t do well.
However, there is a chance 1 or 2 might make a big impact.
I will learn so much more from posting 60 videos than I ever will think about creating a video series.
So if you’d like to join me in this challenge, I’ll be sharing a free notion template in next week’s newsletter so you can track your progress!
👉 If you’d like to do the challenge and want a little accountability, I can create a group chat just for those who want to be involved. Leave a 👋 in the comments if you’d like an invite!
Feature of the week: Unfaced Substack Publication 💋
There are so many exciting things to update you on this week, including our feature in Unfaced!
Crafted by the talented creative Emily Hirst, Unfaced is a publication that shares relatable stories from down-to-earth yet inspiring individuals from a variety of creative industries. Her ‘Uninspired Series’ unpacks their creative journey and how they carved out their unique careers that leave room for imperfection without sacrificing wellness and growth.
Studio Self-Made’s feature is being published today, click the link below to be the first to read it.
Creator of the week 🎤 @tabeadesign
One of my creative inspirations when it comes to making reels is Tabea, founder of Tabea Design Studio.
Sharing the aesthetic behind the scenes of her workflow, Tabea shares a mixture of brand design projects, business management tips and insights into her daily life.
As another Notion lover, Tabea organises and manages her client relationships through the platform.
→ Remember you can get your free creator project dashboard in next week’s newsletter if you’d like to get started using Notion to organise your creative work.
Have a great rest of your week!
Please like or comment below if you enjoyed this week’s episode ❤️
Emma