Happy Wednesday everyone! Hope you all are having an excellent day. I want to share a question with you today that I believe everyone should star ask themselves daily and anytime you are going to make any decision. The question is: How will this help me and how will this hurt me? For example, if you are trying to lose weight and reach a target weight like me, I know I have to stay focused on working out and eating clean. So, if I am craving ice cream (which I always do) before I pull out the ice cream from the freezer I need to ask myself “if I eat this, will this help me or will this hurt me” in reaching my weight goal? As you can tell eating that ice cream will not help me reach my fitness goal. So, I will choose to stay away from it. Hope this helps! If it does lets connect on twitter @al_designs Instagram alondralopezphotography or facebook alondralopoez.designs

If you’re aiming to be the best at what you do, you can’t worry about whether your actions will upset others, or what they’ll think of you. Tim Grover

We have such a fear of what others will think of us that we use that fear as an excuse to not act and take the path we need to.

Why do we do that to ourselves?

Why do we limit our potential do to what others may think?

Society in general will labeling us. What do I mean?

As kids we receive the first of these labels by our parents/teachers/family.

As we grow up, the community adds its own set.

Some can be good, but for the most part labels are negative and they limit us.

These labels and opinions stop us from find the courage to reach or goals and full potential.

What we need to do is dig deep inside, discover who we really are and then create our true labels.

If others don’t like it, screw them!

Let them have their opinions about you! You know the real you and that’s all that should matter.

Once you establish your ow

Happy Friday everyone!

Welcome to another episode of The Creative Podcast. I want to start off with a quote by Grant Cardone. If you go out and start making things happen, something will happen. I can contest to that. You guys know that I have been on a fitness journey since last year and more aggressively this year. My goal is to reach my lowest ever recorded weight of 165 lbs back in 2015. On January 1, 2018 I weighed in at 204 lbs and as of now May 25, 2018 I am down to 174 lbs. That’s a total of 30 lbs. So, when I saw this quote I realized how true it is. In order for me to reach my 1st target weight of 165 I had to 1st commit, 2nd focus and 3rd go out and make it happen (put in the work). People say I am crazy and that I don’t need to workout as much as I do per week, but they don’t know what I need or want! I know my body, I’ve done it before and lost 110lbs. and because I’ve done it before I know exactly how much I need to push myself! You can’t tell me what I need because my b

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Hey guys! Welcome to Thursday’s Designer Tip. “Design is thinking made visual.” –Saul Bass My tip for today is to participate in a daily design challenge. You can start your own or join one. Currently I joined the Adobe Daily Creative Challenge and today is day 3. It’s a pretty cool challenge and well needed for me as a designer because I need to practice my AI skills. My current job is repetitive and well this is a great way for me to practice. You can check out the challenge yourself and join for free. The only way for us to improve is to practice daily and have fun with it!. #AL_Designs #TheCreativePodcast #TheCreativeVlog #ThursdaysDesignerTip #Designer #DesignerTip

Hey guys! Good morning! Here are Wednesday’s words of wisdom: Mentoring is an indispensable requirement for an artist's growth. Not only are skills and experience shared, but there is value in the essential re-examination of one's own work and techniques. -Jim Norman This is an awesome quote! As an artist myself mentorship is very important. I have always wanted to find a mentor for different areas of my life. I am currently blessed with 4. The first two are my parents, they have raised me to be the person I am today, my faith and moral principles are do to their teachings. Now as an adult I know based upon my core foundation what is right and wrong based on what they taught me. My 2nd mentor is my trainer, he has taught me what it takes to succeed in the health and fitness department. With his guidance I have begun to see results and I am super happy. My 3rd mentor is my photography instructor. With his teaching I have begun to see and understand photography with a new set of eyes. Ph

Hey guys! This is The Creative Podcast Tuesday’s Photography tip! I want to talk about portraits today. When taking portraits, remember these 6 steps. 1) ask the person which is their best side, 2) if they are sitting on a chair/stool make sure their body is slightly turned and that they lower one of their shoulders, 3) Their head should be tilted down not up, we don’t want to see nostrils, 4) show the hands, if you must cut off the limbs you can cut them between joints (never on the joints), 5) Make sure you land your focal point on the eye closest to you, 6) The best apertures to shoot your portraits are f2.8 –f 5.6 and make sure it’s a tight crop. I hope these tip help you! Let me know if you try them by connecting with me on twitter @al_designs and Instagram alondralopezphotography and mentioning the podcast. #AL_Designs #TheCreativePodcast #TheCreativeVlog #TuesdaysTip #TuesdaysPhotographyTip #PhotographyTip #Photography

Hey guys! Here is Monday’s Motivation. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. - Tony Robbins. Since I mentioned to you guys that I heard Grant Cardone say that he writes his goals twice a day in his daily planner, I started Appling that principle. I bought his 10X planner to get me started (you can see my 10X vlog on Youtube by searching Alondra Lopez Designs). The planner lasted me about 90 days, but I did notice a big difference in: 1) how much more organized I got. 2) I realized how much dead time I had during the day that wasn’t being used productively and 3) by using this planner I accomplished a lot of the goals/targets I set for the day/week/month. I am very pleased with the planner, but most importantly the basic concept of the importance of writing down you goals daily. Writing them down and keeping them near allows you to reread them during the day and it pushes you to try and complete them. There are times you won’t complete them, but that

Happy Saturday guys!! Just finished my workout and getting ready for today’s photo gig!! Checkout youtube to see my meals vlog at Alondrita Fitness #AL_Designs #TheCreativePodcast