David Yarde's Blog, page 15

The Faith that Moves Mountains

We tend to look at faith as something that weak people use in order to justify a viewpoint within their religion, or just another thing in this world that will ultimately lead to disappointment.

Yet faith is so much more.

In order for us to understand how faith moves mountains we must first take a look at what faith means. The dictionary defines it as “strong belief or trust in someone or something”, but the definition that really gives faith justice comes from a place most would scoff at but...

Artists vs Toolsmiths

Often I find myself biting my tongue at many instances where incompetence at times is just overwhelming. After running into another situation where incompetence was at its peak, a thought hit me, toolsmiths seek to gain satisfaction from how well they were able to execute a task with a given tool, while the artist aims to take the understanding of their toolset and apply it through a process that allows them to create something with meaning and benefit beyond feeding the ego.

Sure the ego nee...

Finding Your Calling Beyond the Noise

A few months after publishing my first book Explore, I found myself in a place where I began to question and wonder what my true calling in life is. My passion for creating things that not only look good but also that enrich the lives of those that use them, often gets lost in the mix of deadlines, breakdowns in communication and life itself.

In the midst of this one email in particular stood out as I cleared my inbox one morning. It was an invite to become a part of a group reviewing Jeff Go...

Think About…

When everything is said and done, you and I are the lucky ones.

At the start of our lives, we have nothing but the skin on our backs and we undergo one of the biggest most frightening experiences of our lives, quickly going from a place of safety and warmth right into a world full of chaos, envy, greed and a lack of humility, all concepts we have no initial idea about, for to us within those early moments we find ourselves naturally content with that which we have. We have no need for extravag...

Personal Branding or Being a Decent Individual

Every day brings with it tons of new articles and points of view on the importance of personal branding, how to build one and why we shouldn’t care about it. Somehow in the midst of all this noise, we find an area that seems to slip by unnoticed. The actual individual.

See the thing about branding is that it has to stand for something, the original message that a “brand” would leave behind usually had to do with a particular level of quality that a business or individual was known by. In essen...

Knowing your limits or Raising the bar

Towards the end of each year, I often find myself reflecting upon the months previously experienced, while, also taking a moment to be thankful for simply being alive. Each year follows a similar pattern, except for this one. This time around, simply giving thanks and moving forward into the new year just won’t be enough, and neither will be writing down resolutions and hoping that I’ll find the time to get them done.

In many ways, I’m actually quite disappointed in myself, especially this yea...

Aim to be your Best

Aim to always do your best especially in the moments it seems like going with the flow and being mediocre is enough. Set the bar higher and crush it with everything you’ve got.

What happens when you’ve set the bar so high that you’ve started to scare yourself? How does one react when the unexpected happen—perhaps the loss of a loved one, the loss of a jobor maybe depression? Whatever the reason, the feeling of fear exists and can become dominant if we don’t keep it in check.

Life doesn’t give u...

Growing Pains

The thing about pain is that it must by felt, it doesn’t care about who it manifests itself through, or how long we try to ignore it. Pain will demand your attention. The worst part is that it works closely with fear.

Yet not all pain or fear is bad and in most cases, they can be used as indicators of good. These feelings are testaments to what we’ve been through and guides to the things we must learn to overcome. Pain allows us to focus on a particular problem until it has been solved, while...

Stop Running on Empty

I want to give up.Yes, you read right, I personally want to give up. Being a creative isn’t an easy task. No matter how cool your creative friends make it seem to be, the part that’s even is many people feel the same way. It’s as if an epidemic is passing through, causing creatives everywhere to feel drained and wanting to just quit.

To clarify, this is far from a rant, but instead a behind the scenes view of what really goes on. Many think that design is easy, and that anyone with a computer...

A Glimpse into the Future

Let’s take a quick glimpse into the future, we’ll only be there for a moment, and you’ll find that no special equipment is required. But before we begin, let’s stop and take a deep breath, exhaling while picturing our mind a time where things still look very similar to how they are now, even though a few decades have passed by, and as we travel down the highway of time we begin to see the results of our actions today.

We see what happened when we let our fear of helping our fellow man has mani...