by admin-eric | Mar 25, 2015 | Fine Arts America
It is possible to change your relationship to your moods—and over time change your moods themselves. You accomplish this by learning how to lead with your life purposes and by making the decision that your life purposes are going to trump your moods. That is, you make...
by admin-eric | Mar 19, 2015 | Fine Arts America
It is hard to pay attention to everything in life – to our art, to our career, to all of our other responsibilities … and to our eating. There are many reasons for our preoccupation with food, unhealthy eating patterns, and general insatiability. An important reason,...
by admin-eric | Mar 13, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Making art is no doubt one of your primary meaning opportunities. But for a rich and complete life, human beings need multiple meaning opportunities—a full menu of meaning opportunities. Here are five to consider. One. Service Being of help feels meaningful. It is a...
by admin-eric | Mar 6, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Say that you have a studio mate and that you get along pretty well with her. Her paintings look nothing like yours, so you aren’t competing; she isn’t chatty; she has no habits that particularly annoy you. But then one day she comes over to your side of the studio,...
by admin-eric | Feb 27, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Last week I shared how artists deal with the anxiety of art deadlines. Here are some additional tactics! Tamara explained: I find that accountability to another human, set up at the beginning of the project and kept up throughout, is really important. When I know that...
by admin-eric | Feb 20, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Here are some thoughts from working artists about how they 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...
