Ever just find yourself in a rut? Maybe at work, in your craft, in your family? Just can’t seem to get out of the monotonous, daily grind of doing the same thing over and over again. So here’s my challenge. Do something you haven’t done and challenge yourself with no expectations. This is my approach to getting out of my design rut. As a military member, web developer, family man and overall busy guy, I find that I don’t make a lot of time keeping my creative juices flowing in my off time. I used to do this by doing freelance work, but lately I’ve just been burned out on the business portion of design, and I just want to create for fun.

Remember when you were a kid and you would just get inspired to draw something? No strings attached, no expectations, just self-fulfilling an imaginary idea that you wanted to bring to life on paper. So here’s my challenge. Every Monday, I plan to create a wallpaper with a motivation quote combined with some photography that I take throughout the week. I plan to make this wallpaper downloadable, mainly for my benefit, but I also to give the world something to plaster on their phone as a reminder of a great week ahead.

So here’s my first. Check out ohiobeyond.com and click download. You’ll get a taste of what’s to come in future wallpapers.