My Journey
My Journey is a platform-wide progression and guidance system designed to support your entire creative career - from your first upload to your first professional role and beyond.
It brings together tracking, structure, guidance, and recognition into one connected experience, so you’re never left guessing what matters next.
This is not just a feature.
It’s the backbone of how growth works on The Rookies.
What My Journey Is Really About
Creative growth is messy. There’s always more to learn, more tools to master, more advice coming from every direction.
My Journey exists to bring clarity and structure to that chaos.
It’s designed to:
- Track meaningful progress over time
- Guide you toward the right actions at the right moment
- Help you balance learning, creating, and connecting
- Make long-term growth visible and motivating
Everything works together - tasks, insights, milestones, and feedback - in one system.
A Fully Integrated Progress System
My Journey is being built as a deep, integrated tracking layer across The Rookies platform.
It will pull together:
- Your projects and uploads
- Your learning activity
- Your community engagement
- Your contest participation
- Your professional milestones
And turn that into:
- Clear progress indicators
- Structured next steps
- Context-aware tips and guidance
- Recognition that reflects real effort
This isn’t about ticking boxes.
It’s about seeing your growth clearly over months and years.
The Three Pillars That Power Everything
Progress in My Journey is measured across three core areas.
Your progress is measured across three core pillars. These work together — focusing on just one won’t move you forward on its own.
Create
Projects, challenges, competitions, and personal work you share on the platform.
Learn
Courses, playbooks, tutorials, and the skills you actively develop over time.
Connect
Feedback, networking, mentorship, and meaningful engagement with the community.
My Journey encourages balanced growth.
Focusing on just one pillar won’t move you forward on its own.
How Levels Fit Into the System
You’ll see your progress reflected through member levels - but levels are not the goal.
They exist to:
- Group members by stage
- Unlock relevant guidance and expectations
- Provide context for feedback, challenges, and recognition
Your journey moves through four broad stages:
- Debut - exploration and confidence-building
- Player - skill development and consistency
- Contender - industry preparation and positioning
- Rookie - professional momentum and contribution
Each level works within My Journey, not instead of it.
Detailed breakdowns of each level are explained here: Understanding the Journey
What’s Coming (And Why This Is Big)
My Journey is coming soon, and it’s one of the largest systems we’ve ever built.
Planned features include:
- Structured task paths for every stage
- Visual progress tracking across all pillars
- Smart prompts and guidance based on behaviour
- Peer benchmarks and insights
- Meaningful milestones and badges
- Check-ins and reflections to maintain momentum
Over time, this will become:
A complete, supported pathway from novice to professional - built directly into the platform.
Why This Matters
Most creatives struggle not because of lack of talent, but lack of structure.
My Journey helps solve that by providing:
- Direction - know what actually matters now
- Focus - stop chasing everything at once
- Motivation - see progress even when growth feels slow
- Confidence - understand how you’re developing relative to your stage
This is about sustainable growth, not shortcuts.
What You Can Do Right Now
Even before the full system launches, everything you do already counts.
Right now, focus on:
- Uploading work regularly
- Entering challenges and competitions
- Learning new skills
- Engaging with the community
- Exploring education and career pathways
When My Journey fully rolls out, your history will already be there - ready to be visualised, supported, and built upon.
My Journey is coming.
And it’s designed to support your entire creative career, not just the next step.