It’s never too early to start creating your own portfolio. Whether you’re a freelance web programmer or a student of journalism, you should be working on a portfolio where you collect the best pieces you’ve produced. But if you don’t have a portfolio yet, don’t worry; you can start working on one right now.
Now, why would you want to start growing a portfolio? The fact is that most people don’t have any kind of portfolio until they start actually working in a permanent job and producing results. But the best thing about having a portfolio is, it can tremendously increase your success in getting a job of your preference, and it is an indispensable asset if you’re an entrepreneur.
I work most effectively when I have a clear goal in mind. But sometimes it’s hard to come up with a plausible goal that boosts my motivation to study something. Having too vague or too broad goals is bad too. What if I told myself that my next goal is to learn HTML and CSS? I’d say that’s a pretty vague goal. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that’s a bad goal—quite the contrary—but it’s too ambiguous to spark motivation. You see, motivation is an emotion that has a will of its own. We can’t just switch it on and off whenever we need to use it. It’s hard to reason with motivation. We need to create a setting for it that will rouse it from its slumber.
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