Hira Sameer Ahmed
I’ve been thinking about how the rise of the internet has given us all the opportunity to connect, share and create new ways of being in the world. In the last decade, a whole bunch of new jobs has come to the surface, jobs that we have made for ourselves. The Internet has given us
A few weeks ago, I asked a question on Instagram to open up a conversation about what really stands in the way of us creating and sharing our best kind of work in the world. A few common and recurring ones that came up were – us doubting our abilities, us being our own worst
Every time I have a new idea that I want to bring to life and every time I sit down to make it happen, I can feel a strong pull to research it first. See if it is already out there. See what is out there already. And this habit doesn’t always work like a
I want to open up a conversation about the guilt that I had been carrying around for a while. I am only now able to share it out loud as I have gone through it and made it to the other side and now I am feeling ready to share it. If you asked me
Remember the manifesto I shared a year ago? I have been noticing a shift in my work, my approach and in the way I’m showing up in my creative work and life and I wanted to claim my voice in a way that would fit who I’m becoming along the way too. So here I’m
I signed up to be a part of this workshop out of a happy accident. I had a very different idea about what I was going to learn there. I thought I will get to learn ‘Tips and Tricks to Promote myself better’ rather I got to learn that my own mindset was standing in
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I believe we all have different versions of what we perceive to be successful. We all have different perceptions of what success looks and feels like for us. Our version of success helps us understand what we want from our creative work and lives. I have been thinking a lot about my version of success
I have a sticky note placed right in front of me on the wall above my desk that reads, ‘No ideas are original’. It works as a reminder every single time I sit down to write, paint or create something. We put so much pressure on ourselves to be original and today I want to
Last week I had an intimate conversation in my DM over on Instagram about being a multi-passionate which lead me to think, write this letter and share it as a permission slip for all such creatives out there who are lead to believe that they just need to be one thing to succeed as creatives
One of the things that I value and hold dear is ‘living my truth out loud’ and I have been thinking about what does living the truth out loud means to me. What does living one’s truth out loud means anyway? Truth doesn’t have to be a big ass scary thing. It could be little
Lately, I have been thinking about how we measure our successes and how more often than we like to admit, our sense of fulfillment is linked to external validation. Heck, we even define success by someone else parameters most of the time even we are not intentional about it but that’s a discussion for another day.