Today was my first day officially going part time to start my social media business. Although the last few weeks I have stayed at home one day during the week, this week I am officially part time at my nonprofit job. When you’ve been mostly working at a desk for a large portion of your professional life, it can be difficult getting up from my home office desk during the day. I still feel like I need to be in my chair for at least 8 hours a day.
I’ve made good headway into creating my new logo and am getting familiar with Corel Draw. I’ve been wanting to learn basic graphic design for a while now and this was one of the reasons why I wanted to go part time. After being terrified of the prices of Adobe Creative Suite, I was delighted to hear from my graphic designer friend just how competent Corel Draw was. I am testing it out for 30 days, but I have a feeling I will like it a lot. It is super intuitive and works much like Quark Xpress, a desktop publishing program I am used to.
But after editing to many nodes on my vector image, I was about to lose it.
I’m lucky my husband was kind of tired at working at his office, so he came home for lunch. At around 3 pm, I was burned out. I had been editing images for 7 hours by then and my brain had checked out.
So we went to go see a movie.
I was delighted to see this infographic by Socially Stacked. If you haven’t checked out all the apps that ShortStack offers, you are missing out. Many of them are free, and will make your facebook pages look a lot better. They’ll also help you run contests, provide menus, etc.
I immediately tried
#4- Get Away from the Computer
#21 Break the Rules ( I technically left work early)
#28 Have fun
I often work nights and weekends and really felt I just needed to step away. Sometimes, when you come back, your mind is clear and you’re able to tackle what needs to get done. Like this long delayed blog post!
What gets your creative juices flowing?
Brown Bear Social 
A few things can help me get creative, depending on how I feel or where I am. Sometimes I’ll be working on a project at Starbucks, which is attached to the bookstore Chapters, and I’ll wander around to look at some design mags or books for inspiration. Sometimes listening to music helps. Or I’ll go on Stumbleupon and look at design, architecture, fashion, and photography to trigger my creative juices.
Hey Connie, I thought about heading to a local coffee shop, and will likely do so more often. I think a change of scenery could probably do a lot for me. I like the idea of looking on Stumbleupon for ideas! Thanks for the tips!
You’re welcome. The “coffee shop” office is my favourite creative environment. I always seem to get very focused and creative there. You’ll enjoy it.
Hi there, thanks for sharing this infographic from Socially Stacked! We’d love to send you a t-shirt as a thank you for sharing our content. You can reach me at sara@shortstacklab.com and I will get you a link so we can send you a shirt! Thanks again!
Hey Sara thanks a bunch! I love ShortStack, glad to share your content!