Category: Creativity

Live is too short to calm down. I think everyone should get way more excited. we should learn to dream and be fabulous and you can never  never do that calmed down.

Check out this youtube video.  I love to look at is a guy dancing all over town with a u2 song in the background. I always think that I would love to know that guy. He is alive and dancing and that is so wonderful. He is dancing in the shower and in the street. He is alive alive alive.

To be by people like that is necessary to achieve big things. It takes so much momentum to do big things that you need help. The music helps you get in touch with that part of us that wants to be alive and not afraid.

If you do not know someone who is so full of life that it is contagious then you have to be that person first. Like attracts like. Soon others will be by you and you will help each other grow. We are synergic at our core and once we know that we can use it.

There is no such thing as a mistake. We do things and the outcome is not good so we say it is a mistake. I put all my money in Enron and it crashed. But what you dont know is that if it had gone way up and you make a bundle something bad might have happened in your life. You might have lose something worse than just money in the long run. Ask Lotto winners if everything is way way better after winning.

With that in mind you can not be afraid of mistakes. Something else happened besides what you though would happen. Thats all. Something different and maybe better. I made cookies today. Oatmeal but i was out of oatmeal so I substituted cheerios for oatmeal. I was also out of eggs so I substituted egg beaters with hot sauce in them. We will see what hot and sweet cookies are like they they are done. It will be a new adventure for my family to try. If they taste awful well I learned that cheerios cannot be used instead of oatmeal.

Banal you say, well could be but the point is important.

It is very easy to get distracted from” Your” path. I have ben distracted by trying to lead someone else along his path. You cannot do that. the only way to lead is by example. You have the idea, you have to do it. no one else.

There is another thing about paths that is real. Drive is an energy that wants to go somewhere and it will go somewhere. You can bet on that. But the important thing is to see if the drive you have been given is going to the right place. It is hard to tell when you are in the middle of driving. It feels right, you think well I am going forward but you might be going in circles. Worry is energy going in circles. Nagging is energy going in circles.

Procrastinating is energy going in circles. You are always the one driving, If you are being driven then it really is something else. It is procrastination in disguise. You not driving takes on many faces. Once you begin to look for them you will find them. And you will see the same pattern repeated your whole life. I saw this in myself this morning because I looked and then I saw it everywhere in my life. It is sneaky but if you see it it will lose its power over you.

Self talk will take a fearful turn whenever we dwell too long on one idea. Why do we always think of every possible bad thing that could happen? We hardly ever focus on what good things that might happen if we changed our lives in anyway.  Where does the fear come from?  Have we been horribly disappointed in the past?  Usually not. We have managed in the past to get through big things.

I once lived in San Francisco and decided I would only be an artist. I had no money or even a place to l live. I sold charcoal sketches on the street. This sounds absurd to me now but then I had no fear. Looking back I am sure that if my parents had known they would have been scared out of their wits about me. But I did not die. No matter what you embark on you almost always do not die. And if you do die, well at least you lived a while.

The day of anyones art opening is a mixed bag, Yes you are glad it is over and you are done painting but now the worst part comes . You have to stand there and listen while people look at your work and make the comments. It doesn’t matter how many say they love it and go on and on. Talk is cheap and art is a business so you have to sell these works. For someone to lay down several thousand dollars in todays market, You better have the best paintings you have ever done. they have to connect with them emotionally and love them for that to happen. Its like falling in love. It either happens or it doesn’t. The gallery owner is depending on you selling them or she would not have picked you out.
You can only do your best and let the chips fall where they may. This is the number one best time to buy art in the past thirty years though so for buyers it is fantastic.

Artist and buyer and dealer and webmaster are all connected. Hopefully it is a wonderful synergy that brings forth joy to everyone connected to the circle.