Blog | Hira S Ahmed

Curation of designs, blog posts, podcast episodes, illustrations and photographs of Hira's own work. The aesthetic will speak to a simple, slow, intentional, and seasonal lifestyle. The aim is to empower wild-hearted creative business owners with self-trust, confidence, purpose-driven and intuitive awareness for their creative work, business and life.

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Hira S Ahmed | Branding, design & coaching for creatives

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Life Sketch

Creative Coaching

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Norway Travel

Creative Business Owner

My Sketchbook

Creative Living

Creative Branding

A leaf from my sketchbook. Reliving memories from our trip to Norway through my illustrations. From all the places I have been to, Norway is the one that mesmerized each and transported me into a magical fairytale!✨ . In other news, podcast is back! 🎉 The first episode of the second season went live early morning today. This season is for you if you are like me working towards building a creative work and life practice that would work for you. I’m sharing lessons that I’ve learned

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Not Being Good Enough

Being Good Enough

Creative Motivation

Gentleman's Club

Creative Thinking Skills

Live Your Truth

You Better Work

Creating our best kind of work

I have been there too. In this blog post today, I’m going to share what’s been working for me in a hope to make you feel less alone and more hopeful in your wholehearted creative journey. Read this to feel more hopeful. #creativethoughts #thinkcreative #creativewritingsociety #creativethinkingskills #creativejournal #creativityheals #creativityrocks #creativitymatters #creativehearts #createyourhappy

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Definition Of Success

What Are We

Just Keep Going

Meaningful Conversations

Seasons Of Life

Finding Your Version of Success

What's your version of success? I believe we all have different versions of what we perceive to be successful. We all have different perceptions of what success looks and feels like for us. #definesuccess #yoursuccess #successfullifequotes #successfullife #successfulwoman #luxuriouslifestyle #successdiaries #growthquotes #takecontrolofyourlife #focusonthepositive #growthroughit #mindsetgoals

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Part ways with the word SHOULD

For some reason, I never liked the word should. Wherever I hear it my head goes ding ding ding, pause. Consider an alternate approach. I used to think it had something to do with my rebel tendencies and as it challenges the way I value freedom. It is so much more than that.

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What a creative coach can help you with?

Have a read to know how can a creative coach help you with FEELING LESS ALONE AND MORE HOPEFUL. We are all trying our best, struggling and somehow making our way out of the mayhem. We all feel lonely, demotivated, uninspired and lost. #podcastforcreatives #creativity #slowcreativeliving

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Note To Myself

Listen To Your Intuition

Give Yourself Permission

What I Have Learned

Some Encouragement For Your Creative Projects

Give it a read for some encouragement! It is perfectly fine to *not* have all the answers in front of you before you start. Often times the best work comes forward when you experiment, follow your curiosity give yourself permission to listen to your intuition.

To Live A Creative Life We Must

Living A Creative Life

Manifesto for living a life on your own terms for the curious, wildhearted and soulful creatives

To live an intentional creative life it goes without saying that it is important to put intention into your approach and work. Click through to read the manifesto I've written for living a creative life on your own terms in your own unique, messy and human way #intentionalliving #slowcreativelife #creativeliving

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Stream Of Consciousness

After All These Years

Simple things that are working for me

A realization that I only had now after all these years – I can’t be there for anybody else if I can’t be there for myself first. My encouragement for you would be to start to learn to yourself and see what feels right for you. Read to know a few things that are working for me

What To Do When You Have Low Self Esteem

How to build a higher self-esteem?

In this blog post I am going to address the following questions: What is Self-Esteem? How to figure out whether you have low or high self-esteem? Why is it important to have high self-esteem? What are the factors/ causes behind low self-esteem? How to build higher self-esteem?

Finding Your Version of Success

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Whimsical Photography

‘Joy’ a compass for your life

What do you think happiness is? Over the years, I have learned that happiness and joy is something you choose. It is something sacred, something that comes from the inside when you make a choice to be happy. #whatmakesmehappy #createjoy #createhappiness #findinghappiness #sharehappiness #pursuitofjoy #sharehappy #sharejoy #sharinghappiness #focusonthepositive #growthroughit #growyourself

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#iamremarkable with Google

I believe, we all get to decide what works for us and what doesn’t. Attending #iamremarkable made me question the way we look at someone who is self-promoting and sharing what makes them remarkable. #simplelifestyle #simplelifehappylife #simplelifepleasures #mysimplelife #keepthingssimple #thepointedlife #dailywisdom #influencerblogger #influencerlife #brandinfluencer #socialmediainfluencer

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About Friendship

M Learning

Ways Of Seeing

Is support of community important?

Community, to me, means an opportunity for collective growth and becoming. It is about friendship, support, and encouragement to keep going and showing up courageously even when things get oh so difficult. I’ve had a chance to connect with lovely humans all over the world on the internet and one thing that we all had in common was the loneliness. Read to know if support of community by your side makes a difference.

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Dream Big Quotes Motivation

Finding your focus being a multi-passionate is a struggle. Download this guided ebook to find yours

As being a multi-passionate myself, I used to find it really hard to find my focus. Too many ideas and too many directions that I feel being pulled towards so have developed a system and a structure to move forward and not let it become a block. I wrote this ebook using my own experience of running around in circles to help you find your focus being a multi-passionate. There are some helpful exercises and journaling prompts to help you find your own answers #creativeliving #multi-passionate

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The Gift Of Imperfection

Inspiring Others

Daring Greatly

Make Everyday Difference in the World

I’m sharing my story, showing up, walking the talk, living my truth out loud and inspiring, encouraging and empowering others to do the same in a way that’s true to them. #creativity #creatives #smallcreativebusiness #nonfiction #intentionalliving #creativitycoaching #intentionalliving #creativeliving