Meet Tim Sack | Designer

We had the good fortune of connecting with Tim Sack and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Tim, how has your work-life balance changed over time?
Over the past ten years I have seen a considerable change to my work life balance. I feel like early on in our careers we are taught that you must take huge personal sacrifices to be successful in your career. Things like missing events or travel, working late, giving up sleep were all expectations of the core belief of the “Work Grind”. That if you put yourself, your friends or other elements of your life over your work then you simply would not succeed. My greatest lesson in the last ten years is that this is a farce, and in fact often the behavior that leads to burn out and ultimately a major reason that people don’t succeed. While I am a strong believer in hard work, I have learned that hard work is and should always be on your terms. Want to get away with your parter for the weekend, attend an event, leave early to see your kids baseball game, prioritize that the work can wait. Need to cut out early to get some exercise or clear your head, do it. Exhausted and have to peel yourself out of bed with an alarm everyday. Stop it. Get the rest you need and give to yourself first. If you are full and rested, that is when you are going to be the most productive, inspired and impactful. At the end of the day we are on this planet to live our lives, not build careers or wealth, if you are sacrificing your life to to do the later you are missing the point completely.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
As a designer my art is in the creation of space and experience. I have always had the talent to visualize and see what wasn’t there, and to take what was in my mind and bring it to life. My inspiration is in the impact I can have to those around me. Knowing this I have realized that the greatest impact I can have is creating space which drives peoples experience. Earlier in my career I was in events, I loved the way I could build something that would bring people together to have a beautiful time, something that would create a memory in their mind. I still love events and the immediate joy that they bring, but ultimately I began to shift away from them because they were so fleeting. I was spending, weeks, months often of my time to build up to a single day, a few hours of time when everyone came together to do the thing. As I moved into home I did so because of the permanence of it. While and event was singular, home is forever. I could create something that lasted, that provided a string of moments, a lifetime of experience. And to me that became so much more satisfying of a way to dedicate my time.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
I would take them to the mountains, climb peaks and swim in streams. Wander through the wilderness directionless and show them the vastness of beauty that we have in Colorado.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
There have been a number of guides in my life who have helped me along the way, from key teachers, coaches and bosses. All giving me little tidbits which directed my path to where I am now.

Most recently I lost my Uncle Jim, and in his passing and the remembrance of him I realized just how deeply he impacted me and the gravity that impact had later in my life. The primarily lesson being to live your life, the way you see it. That conforming or obeying someone else was never going to make you happy. He showed me that life could be lived a million ways, so why would you ever do what you don’t want to do. Find what you love and focus on that. Never let anyone tell you otherwise.

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