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Monthly Archives: March 2014

How many of us have been told that we must chose between making money and making art. Who gets to say that? Who gets to tell us that we can’t do ‘that’ and if we do, we’ll fail? In The Icarus Deception, Seth Godin tells a story of a dancer who loves musical theatre but […]

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The sun is out and the sky is blue. I’ve felt like Wally letting my solar panels recharge this week. The sunshine is good for my soul right now and that’s whats up. Part of being a creative and making stuff for a living is taking some time to take care of yourself. Actually, if […]

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Mediocre is a word we use in place of lazy sometimes. But what it actually means is “not very good.” But when we’re first starting out, that’s exactly what we are: Mediocre (at best!) and we know it! So we avoid starting because we’re scared that our work will be labeled as lazy or not […]

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We’re creatives and humans. Everyone deals with comparison. And if they don’t, then they just talk about how they don’t… which means they do. The problem is that we do it to ourselves. We seek out ways to compare ourselves to others. We know how certain things make us feel based on past experience then […]

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It’s just a tool. Owning it does not make you a better artist. It makes you a property owner. Let’s not get confused in the fight for staying creative and think that buying more stuff will make us better. It won’t. We do it sometimes unintentionally: Lean on these things that we use to make […]

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