#1: Mission Complete

I feel great after completing one mission on this blog. It was an amazing journey so far. I thought it would be a good idea to record how I feel right now.

I started out with the notion of creating something new each day. And I think I started alright. However, the more I got into it, the more I was not thinking of creating just anything each day, but trying to improvise my designs and make my creations as meaningful as I could make them. In doing so, my 21 days got stretched into almost 2 months. A couple of my creations took more time than I expected, the #21 took me almost two weeks but I learnt a lot.

I had a lot of first times - my first time with felt, glass painting, infographics and coding websites. And as I write this, I already have a few more ideas that I want to try. I will post them as and when I create those but just as a casual update and not a part of my 21 days journey.

The idea was to "be creative" as a habit. To keep thinking creatively about the problems I face on a day to day basis and I believe there is some improvement there. Every time I face some difficulty performing any of my daily tasks I ask myself - "Can I create an effective solution around this problem?". I just have to continue to keep asking this question and keep creating solutions to make myself get better.

I have experienced a huge leap in my quality of creation in this short period and I intend to keep working towards it. You can see the change in the two websites I created during this time.

First website:  http://21daysofnewsomethings.blogspot.com/2014/03/1-2-delayed-website.html
Second website:  http://21daysofnewsomethings.blogspot.com/2014/04/1-18-another-web-design.html

The other most important thing I learnt is to be obsessed about doing what I had planned to do. There were times I would let it go and leave it for "later" and I could not complete my projects on time. Had I planned properly like estimate the time required to complete a project, think about the challenges I would face early on, create required contingencies, I think i would have been able to close this a little earlier.

With these important lessons I am going to start my second mission to form another habit. (In fact I already have. I just did not want to officially begin it before I closed the first one.)