As 2012 begins, I want to look back over the past year to see what can be learnt from it
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Reminding yourself that you love what you do is an important part of keeping your mind and your work fresh. As creative professionals, it’s easy to get caught up in the business end of things and not actually spending much time doing anything for ourselves. If you are freelancing or working at an agency, it’s important to have something in your pipeline that’s done just for the fun of it.
The first thing to do is look back at your motivation for getting started in this profession in the first place. Why’d you start doing this, anyway?
Each of us has different reasons for doing what we’re doing. Maybe you went to school for design, turned a hobby into a career, or started out in email marketing and somehow ended up doing UIs for iPhone apps.
No matter what your history is, there’s something that attracted you to what you do — and that’s exactly what you should revisit. In this article, I’ll be talking about working on personal projects for the purpose of reenergizing your enthusiasm for your work.
