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Deadlines provoke anxiety! Learn from how working artists deal with the anxiety of deadlines. Jerry explained: The thing that works best for me is to have a written calendar that I can look at all at once with all the year’s deadlines written down.  If I need to...

If you’ve ever had problems with meaning, I recommend my new book to you that just came out this weekend! It’s called Life Purpose Boot Camp and it’s really worth your time and attention. Take a look here:...

Artists, like all human beings, have multiple life purposes and various ways of describing their purposes. Have you ever tried to articulate your life purposes? It’s an excellent and even a life-changing exercise to try to state your life purposes and to then go one...

Here is a nice opportunity for you to investigate your life purposes and bring them into your daily life in a more powerful way AND get some exposure in Professional Artist Magazine. I’m writing a piece for Professional Artist Magazine on life purpose icons, which are...

My new book Life Purpose Boot Camp comes out in about a month. Life Purpose Boot Camp is an 8-week program that does something really interesting. First, it explains the relationship between meaning and life purpose. Second, it describes a process for making strong...

Cezanne famously said, “With an apple I will astonish Paris!” What he meant was, “Using an ordinary apple as my starting point, a subject painted a million times before, I will make some new meaning because of my artistic vision, my facility with a brush, my personal...

In the wake of the suicide of Robin Williams the following is important to consider. Providers of mental health services tend not to take a client’s meaning needs and life purpose concerns into account. How often is a client asked, “Tell me a little bit about your...

Virtually all of us tend to scorn small increments of time and “throw away” fifteen minutes here and forty-minutes there, arguing that we are doing so much already that those windfalls need not be used productively. We opt to check our email, surf the Net, play a...

Imagine that you could “upgrade your personality” and strengthen certain traits that would help you create regularly and deeply and that would help you more effectively meet the challenges of the creative life. What traits would you choose? Here are twenty traits that...

Galleries often say to an artist, “I want to see a body of work from you.” By this they mean a few things: they want to see a consistent subject matter theme, they want to see visual consistency, and they want to sense that the artist has gone deep and done something...