{"id":2382,"date":"2010-07-28T11:06:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T21:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2010-07-28T11:06:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T21:06:06","slug":"im-good-enough-im-smart-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/im-good-enough-im-smart-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m good enough, I&#8217;m smart enough&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling a little bit of a loss of confidence today. Long time readers will probably recognize this happens to me once in a while. Who knows what triggers this feeling&#8230;.I might see another designer do some great work that I wish I did? I might have done work that I wasn&#8217;t too happy with? I might have lost a bid on a contract I really wanted? Who knows&#8230;it just happens from time to time. I hear it occurs a lot for folks who work alone. It&#8217;s one of the hazards of doing my own business I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>What to do? I dunno really, time heals. You wait long enough the feeling goes away and the next successful project comes along and the confidence comes back.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a break helps. Get outdoors, see some gorgeous weather or spot some truly inspirational <a href=\"http:\/\/designm.ag\/inspiration\/35-creative-teaser-movie-posters\/\" target=\"_blank\">movie poster<\/a> and then you feel the spark again.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting with other creatives helps. It might be a rare occasion when you can meet another freelancer, but when that opportunity comes up to share horror stories or even commiserate together, you don&#8217;t feel so alone anymore.<\/p>\n<p>When all else fails, a nice big bowl of ice cream and some time sitting behind a game of <em>God of War<\/em> helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling a little bit of a loss of confidence today. Long time readers will probably recognize this happens to me once in a while. Who knows what triggers this feeling&#8230;.I might see another designer do some great work that I wish I did? I might have done work that I wasn&#8217;t too happy with? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,56,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-personal","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions\/2383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}