His family owned a graphic company where they produced packaging solutions from cardboard. When he graduated from graphic design school he challenged himself to seek out complex projects that would accelerated his ability as an artist.  He has found himself working on mediums such as catalogs, children’s books, logos, stationary, large scale banners, designs for textile applications, stickers, tee shirts, and much more.

He has also experimented in painting, showing his art in a private exhibition.  To quote him directly, “Designing for me is like making food for the eyes, soul and brain. My life task is to feed hungry people with this kind of food and bring more colors and shapes in their life.”

The art shown within the link below is a design for a t-shirt you will be able to buy as soon as our store is open for business!  (The art is Copyrighted to LogicalTee, replications are prohibited)

Danielonum’s Art

- Author Unknown

Positive thinking is closely related to self-confidence as a factor in self-motivation. It’s important to look at things positively, especially when things aren’t going as planned and you’re ready to give up.

If you think that things are going to go wrong or that you won’t succeed, this may influence things in such a way that your predictions will come true. This is particularly the case if you need to work hard to achieve success, or if you need to persuade others to support you in order to succeed. Your thoughts can have a major influence on whether you succeed or fail, so make sure those thoughts are “on your side.”

Positive thinking also helps you think about an attractive future that you want to realize, like a self started business!

When you expect positive results, your choices will be more positive, and you’ll be less likely to leave outcomes to fate or chance. Having a vivid picture of success, combined with positive thinking, helps you bridge the gap between wanting something and going out to get it.  Here are a few things to remember along the way to achieving your personal success.

• Become aware of your thoughts. Write them down throughout the day.

I recommend buying a small notebook to keep in your bag or purse.  I have discovered most of my ideas come to me when I am in conversation with someone, or when I see or hear something (and those simulations are around us all the time).  Draw pictures or write short notes to yourself that will be helpful later when you have the time to work on your business idea.   No more fleeting thoughts worth a lot to your plan.

• Challenge your negative thoughts, and replace them with positive ones.

Ask yourself questions like: Am I jumping to conclusions?  What alternatives are there?  When you are working on building the idea for a, business it is completely normal to question yourself.   Allow it.  It will only make your idea stronger and your convictions better defended.  I challenge myself daily, and often it feels like I am playing tennis with myself!  But in the end, my negative thoughts turned into a better prepared idea.

• Create a strong and vivid picture of what it will feel like to achieve your goals.

If you are not sure how to do this I have a few suggestions.  Create a collage of pictures that have to do with your business goals.  I have whipped up a quick one for you that could be Logical Tee’s goals.  I want to be opened in October with people interested in being a part of Logical Tee, I want to make money doing what I love, I want to inspire a new understanding of t-shirts made out of recycled plastic bottles, I want to find artists to work with who are passionate about what they do, I want to find the freedom to take a walk on the beach when the weather is nice (a benefit to living in Israel).

I have practiced this a lot in my life.  I usually produce the picture in my head and rehearse myself living my dream over and over and over.  I am being honest when I say I usually get what I am focused on, and not because I have special powers.  Because I stay focused and determined to live my dream.  I am a dreamer and highly recommend it to others.

• Develop affirmations or statements that you can repeat to yourself throughout the day. These statements should remind you of what you want to achieve, and why you will achieve it.

One way you can do this is by writing them down in the same notebook you are using to jot all your ideas in.  Put in on the back of the cover, pin it to your tack board at work (the job you are wanting to leave J), hang it on the refrigerator or the mirror in the bathroom.  Make sure you are able to see it everyday!

• Practice positive thinking until you automatically think about yourself and the world in a positive way, every day.

Focus on being thankful for what you have.  It is easy to stay in the dumps when you are feeling blue, we have all been there.  The trick I have found is to embrace all the beautiful things that life has given you. Maybe it’s the sunny day today, or the bird that showed you its bold colors when it flew bye..  There are little things that life brings us that can be taken in a positive way, it is just a matter of perception.

Why is it so important to practice these lesson when you are embarking on being an entrepreneur?   Because it is not a easy road to successfully starting a business.  I have watched self starting business people in my own family fail, and I have also witnessed others in the family succeed.  And the only difference I saw in the two groups was the ability to roll with the punches and to turn a setback into a learning tool for future success.

Cheer to raising the Forward Thinking glass to all of us!

Today was spent using my spare 2 hours fussing with the website and the many tools that you can use in the back end.  For a website developer novice, sometimes the learning curve can be steep, but I like a challenge J.  Don’t get me wrong,  I use computers everyday and feel very confident behind one, it something else to be in the background of a website. In the end of my 2 hours I did not necessarily accomplish exactly what I wanted to. Truthfully I ended up with a bigger mess of help desk tickets, long deep breaths and a longer to –do list tomorrow.  It was hard to leave my problems as they were but when your children need you to answer, you answer.  And asking for 2 hours for yourself is a gift when it is given to you.

But I am looking at the bright side (it’s a stretch I know), I will know how to operate the Logical Tee website better when we open for business and I will be interacting with you all more regularly.

So the sentiment for today can be tied up in one word… Flexibility!  OH and more importantly, no expectations. 

Today this happened to me and the roadmap for this blog started to declare that it wanted to be included in my multitude of ideas.  So I sought out through the internet how one finds people, like you, to share the Logical Tee story with as it begins to unfold.  Well, the conclusion was this:  No simple recipe or price can ensure that people will come.  Just because you build it, does not mean they will come… this ain’t no field of dreams I tell you!

I have determined this as of today, I am going to start this project… writing a blog post daily around the development of Logical Tee, and put it out there for anyone and everyone to read.  What I will also do is listen and read the blogs of others who have stories to tell, or information they want to share.  Just today I read an article about a boy names Hart who makes candles for men (http://springwi.se/Jdzkqh), he calls them Man Cans!  This little entrepreneur was quite inspirational, simply because he had an idea and thought of a roadmap to achieving it.  I highly recommend reading about his candles if you have an extra 5 minutes.

I am learning about other people’s stories, supporting my current community (bloggers) and also working toward my goals of sharing the Logical Tee story.  So you could say today was a day that involved learning from others and thinking of strategy.  Tomorrow, well I can sense a design will be started, this was one of the surprises brought to me today!  

I know this all too well.  2 years ago I moved from Boulder, CO to Israel.  Now that was a move!  We (my husband and I)  packed our things in a container, sold our car, bought a new one in Israel, and started the list of things we needed to do   Might I add our wedding was held 2 months after we got here with about 250 guests… yes  my friends this is how we roll… full speed!

So I guess you could say that big move helped to prepare me for BIG changes with a deadline pending.

This blog is going to share with you exactly what we are doing to get ready for our launch.  We will share everything from how our designs are going,  the process of importing our shirts, what we are doing to establish ourselves as an internet company, all the trials and tribulations we will run though, and of course every single success (small or big) that we can smile about.  And with pleasure we are considering this to one of our first moments of success: the announcement of this website and our Facebook Page!  Woot Woot!!

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