It is easy to become complacent with your lifestyle especially as artists. Challenge yourself. Do something new. Try a new technique.

What is the business model of our generation?
We know that old bushiness models like industrialization do not work in contemporary times. I often think about what is the model for our time. Hard to do while we are living in the present but if you can think ahead you will be very successful. What do you think?

“Kill the clock inside your head
And you can get your sleep when you are dead” – Flyleaf

 

We often put time restraints on ourselves. Time restraints will drive you crazy. Im too young to do this or too old to do that. Just do it.

Social networks can be a double edged sword. Reaching out to people can be a good thing but spending to much time doing so can be bad. Balance I guess. I found that I get better results when I spend more time creating. If you do great work then people will make the effort to reach out to you.

Read an interesting book called The Conditions of Success: How the Modern Artists Rises to Fame by Alan Bowness. The book is actually a lecture manuscript but it had some good themes.

The book describes the Four Successive Circles. Steps or hoops or chambers an artist must overcome to achieve success.

• Peer Recognition
• Critical Recognition
• Patronage by Art Dealers
• Public Acclaim

The book is really hard to find for some reason so if come across it for a good price you should pick it up.

I was told that I was a control freak. Naturally I took offense and rejected the term. A control freak is a negative or can be seen as a negative trait.  I soon realized that I am indeed a control freak after reading Mastery by Robert Greene

I want to control my own life. In order to gain control of you own life you have to become a master in your calling.

Hello my name is Glen and I am a control freak. I want control over my own life.

“Everyone who has creativity has a touch of madness.” – Robert Greene