I graduated! Yay!

Still recovering from my Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design graduation exhibition, which I attended just an hour after being discharged from the hospital, following 12 hours in the ED due to a ruptured ovarian cyst, a heart attack, & 24 hours of excruciating pain prior to that 🥴

Completing this chapter has genuinely been the hardest slog of my life, there were so many moments where I was so overwhelmed I thought my head would actually explode, but not once did I not believe I could do it.

If there’s anything I can take away from this year, it’s this:

You don’t know what you can do, until you do it.

That one quote has been my biggest motivation this year & has been the reason I’ve spent this year constantly pushing myself to do things outside of my comfort zone.

Working part time while studying full time and also managing a debilitating chronic illness? Done.

Doing all of that while taking on a huge freelance job with the peak body for the non-government mental health sector in SA? Done.

Then add on another job with a road safety organisation to get your work up on billboards all over Adelaide? Done.

Be chosen as the lead project manager alongside a classmate and plan the entire brand identity (and more) of the graduation exhibition? Done.

Do all of that plus present multiple times, in person, in a board room, in front of the whole class, plus the lecturers, plus the clients and the partners/sponsors? Yeah, I’d rather jump off a cliff, but done.

So! Point is - push yourself to do things you’d never imagine yourself doing, don’t put yourself into a comfort bubble and just stay there forever, because the things you can achieve by going out of your comfort zone can seriously be life changing! 🌻✨