My Top Seven Skillshare Classes

Have you ever just wanted to learn a specific skill like how to make you doodles into works of art, how to cook meatballs or how to design your own habits? Then look no further than Skillshare.

Skillshare is a platform that like it says in the names allows teachers for all over the world to share their skills from.This week I will be talking about the top seven skillshare classes that will get you learning a wide range of skills that can help you daily.

1. The first class that I absolutely love Digital Illustration: Doodles to Design. This class teaches you how to take your doodles and make them into cool works of art. The instructor is Jon Burgerman an award winning illustrator based out of New York. I highly recommend this class because of the way it brings out your inner child through creating doodles and then teaches you how to make them into works of art.

After You are done creating your works of art. The second class from Skillshare that you should take is Get Stuff Done Like a Boss- Design Your Workflow and Double Your Productivity in 21 Days. This class is all about learning how to be more productive through developing cornerstone habits. The instructor is Tiago Forte and he is really good at breaking down the ways you can things done through developing habits and introducing different tools in order to be more productive. I highly recommend this course.

After you have gotten things done the next step you might be a little hungry so the next skillshare class that I recommend is Show Us Your Balls: Meatball Making with the Meatball Shop. This  class is all about creating your own meatball inspired dish. The instructor is super chef Daniel Holzman and he goes through the entire process of creating your own sauce and the meatballs of course. He gives many valuable tips on how to get creative with meatballs. I highly recommend this course for anyone looking to spice up their meals.

After you have filled your belly with those delicious meatballs you have just made, you might be in the mood to play some video games. Because of this, I recommend Make Games From Scratch: Getting Started With Unity this class teaches you how to create your own video game using the Unity platform. And the best part is, that it involves zero coding. The instructor is Brandon Wu, and he goes through the entire process of making a building your own virtual world. So If you have ever wanted to make your own video game this class is definitely for you.

Last but not and this is my favorite Skillshare that I have ever taken and its called Hey, Cool Shirt: Designing Effective T-Shirt Graphics this class is taught Chris Delorenzo of the awesome clothing company Johnny Cupcakes. I love this class because it takes you through the entire process of designing your own bad ass t-shirt. I highly recommend this class because not only does it help with design but it shows you technical things related to t shirt designs and also how to effectively brand something. I highly recommend taking this class. So, what’s you  favorite skillshare classes?

Yours in Awesome Learning,

Janeille

How to Design Your Own House for Free

As a former architecture student , I have studied the built environment extensively. I am here to tell you that not only is architecture difficult but It is one of the most difficult professions to work in. That being said, I think that anyone can learn how to design their own built environment.

It is not only the domain of construction folks and  and builders. Anyone can become a builder. I want to give you a step by step guide to designing your won built environment.

Step 1:  Trust your instincts. If something feels wrong, it probably is, this means it might feel wrong for the rest of the time you have to live with whatever decision you make regarding your physical space.

Step 2. Download google sketchup at http://www.googlesketchup.com. This is a 3D modelling software program that is super easy to learn. If you have difficulties with the tools http://www.youtube.com and http://www.google.com is your friend. You can  learn to create almost anything in 3D using this and the great thing is that it is free for personal use.

Step 3. Go to www. houzz.com. This website is a dream for getting inspiration for interior design. It allows you to look at beautifully designed interiors and you can contact professionals that can build you dream for you.

Finally, step 4- Have an open mind and know that anything you do in your own creative expression is valid. This is the best part, you may start off wanting to just design your own house but pretty soon after you figure out how exhilarating it is to make something that is your own you will soon become a design machine.

What have you designed today whether it is your own physical space or your own schedule? What did it feel like?  Let me know.

Yours in Awesome Learning,

Janeille

GTD with Todoist

” Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. ”
-Paul Meyer

This last couple of weeks for me has been really productive. I credit that to my use of the app todist. This is an app that enables you to create to do list’s The neat thing about it is that it is sync-able across my cell phone and desktop. What really sets it apart from the others for me is its ability to do recurring dates and this really makes it handy with grocery lists that I can set for every week and also reminder to call people and even to wash my hair 🙂 .

Also, its use of the creation of tasks via projects makes it really valuable to set goals . You can create tasks for each goal with a date and time that can be used keep a project on task and also to get things done within a project. You can also collaborate with other people in getting things done in.

I create projects for everything . My grocery lists, for managing my relationship followups with other people and even when to wash my hair. This app is amazingly useful and I am amazed the current version of it is free. If it wasn’t I would happily pay for it because it is well worth it.

Overall, this app does so much. It is compatible with the GTD system and if you are into being highly productive it is well worth it.  Shot out to Tiago Forte  who introduced this app when I was taking the Skillshare class called “Getting Things Done like a Boss”. In this class he teaches you how to not only organize your time but how to organize it so that you reflect on all your goals so that you getting the right things done.

Check it out here:  http://www.skillshare.com/classes/entrepreneurship/Get-Stuff-Done-Like-A-Boss-Design-Your-Workflow-and-Double-Your-Productivity-in-21-Days/1524940083?via=search

What productivity tools do you use?

Yours in Awesome Learning,

Janeille

You Dawg It’s Past Your Bedtime: Design Your Own Habit

The next step on my learning journey involves Skill share, an online platform that allows anyone to take classes on various topics  including business, design and even cooking . Recently, I took a class on Skillshare called , Design Your Own habits: Behaviour Design. It is taught by Tiago Forte, he a productivity coach that helps people to develop habits that allow them to be more productive and overall more effective in getting things done in life.

I must say that this class was really helpful because it helped me to look at the current habits that I have in my life and what habits I would want to develop later in order to improve my overall effectiveness in work and more broadly in life. If you have a look below you can see what I worked on throughout the class.

As you can see above, the habit I developed was to go to bed by 10 PM every night. This was easier said than done. As someone that likes to stay up late I found this challenging. However, I found that going through the Design Your Own Habit exercises ,I found that if I focused on my trigger with was listening to my alarm it became easier and also by looking at my small wins and closers this helped to make it easier to stick to my habit a lot because I didn’t feel like a failure if I didn’t 100% do my habit sometimes. I am on day five of it, but I have not faltered yet (fingers crossed).

All in all I think this class is worth the effort and the teacher Tiago is really invested in students. He even took the time to evaluate my habit sheet and give me tips on how to make my habit more specific. For an online class this level engagement of students is really something. He even has giveaways every month to students that post something new based on his criteria.

Check out the class here: http://www.skillshare.com/classes/entrepreneurship/Design-Your-Habits-A-Hands-On-Introduction-to-Behavior-Design/978368389?via=similar-classes

So what habit would you want to develop that you think would have a huge impact on your life?

Yours in Awesome Learning,

Janeille