The Path to Success: Stage Two.

Last week I wrote about the 5 stages in the creative’s path to success. From my experience I tend to see 5 recognizable stages: Stage 1 AWAKENING Stage 2  DISCOVERY Stage 3 INTEGRATION Stage 4  RHYTHM Stage 5  MASTERY Last week I described the very first stage. It is...

The Path to Success: Stage One.

One of the challenges of being on a path of creating art is that, it is often you don’t know where you are. It can be hard to determine if you are getting anywhere, especially if you have never been there before. What does a path to success in art making look like? Of...

When you know

The tricky part in life is making the right decisions. Everyone struggles with this. Lately I feel like I have been not doing so well at making decisions. It is hard to know because what might, at first, feel like a mistake, maybe down the road, will feel right. I...

How to bring back the joy in your art.

It seems like wherever we are in our art making, we always want to be someplace better. Often, our art or our ability to make our art feels inadequate. And it doesn’t feel so good. The real problem, however, is that this discontent sometimes never goes away. If we are...