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What should you do when meaning vanishes? Here’s a four-step technique to try! Read on … Every day we’re bombarded by small (and sometimes large) threats to our experience of life as meaningful. Maybe you get a painful rejection from a gallery. Suddenly painting (and...

Does your brain race? I suspect it does! Nature evolves a creature like us, gives us a super-sized, experimental brain, and tries out thinking. What a fascinating capacity with which to aid or burden a creature! Since the goal of nature is not to evolve perfection but...

Anyone who puts work on public display invites criticism. What are the best ways to deal with the criticism that may be coming? Read on! 1. Grow a thicker skin Your prime strategy is to grow a thicker skin and let criticism bounce right off of you. If your skin is...

Very often an artist wants to continue in her current style, perhaps because it is still meaningful to her, perhaps because it sells, or both, while at the same longing to begin some new work and see where her creativity and her updated experiences might take her. The...

Artists, like all human beings, find it hard to implement practices that they know would serve them. They know that they’re not getting to the studio first thing in the morning because they’re in the habit of staying up super-late—still they stay up late. They know...

Organization can be a real challenge for each of us. It is even more of a challenge for everyday creative people who have lots of ideas, dreams, goals, responsibilities, and just plain things going on; and who may also be a little suspicious of organization. But as...

Is it time to live out one of your dreams—the dream of sketching and painting in Paris? Read on! We must do our creative work right where we are and we mustn’t pine to be somewhere else. If we actually do need to be somewhere else, then we must do what we can to move;...

Are you pretty intelligent? And is that a problem for you? Take a look at the fifteen challenges that smart people regularly face! Read more … Here are fifteen challenges that smart people regularly face. Living in a society and a world that disparage smartness....

Once you are struck by the question of whether what you are doing matters, and unless the answer is an immediate and unequivocal yes, you will be stuck with and haunted by that question. So many of the clients I work with, despite the optimistic face they put on the...