Everybody plays in the safe small sand box.

I think one of the most important lessons that I learned from reading Ted Turners autobiography was what his father said to him near the end of his life, that his goals were just not big enough.

I believe in big outrageous goals that will take a life time or more to achieve.

I also know most Artists do not have goals and if they do, they are not written down.

Why don't most Artists have written goals?

Because it is easier not have goals just in case you cannot achieve them, because you do not want to fail, it's the fear of the fear of failure.

But without failure you cannot have success.

You must have one of two outcomes, success or failure.

So most play in the average or mediocre, or the normal, that way they cannot fail and cannot be a success.

As much as most Artists say they want success their actions often say different, because if we were to be a really successful Artist our lives would dramatically change and that is scary. So it is easier to play safe, but say we want to be successful, without ever really trying but always lamenting the fact we are unsuccessful.

I believe an important step to being a successful Artist is to have written out goals, not for me but so that you can read them every day and make them part of your internal narrative.

If you have a target you have something to aim at.

Write out your goals Artist, big, exciting, outrageous goals, shoot for the stars.

Why not, so few do?

I have learned everybody plays in the safe small sand box, few want play on the beach, it is just to big.