In your Art Practice, think like the Ant.#6


“Go to the ant”, to learn valuable lessons.
Ants teach us how to be self-motivated and self reliant.
No one carries a whip behind the ant to ensure the work gets done.
There are no time cards in the anthill.
These creatures are self-motivated, and need no boss to ensure they get their work done.
The greatest resource that you have is you and you have the ability to make whatever changes in your life you need to make to improve your Art career and make your life better.
The amazing thing about the ant is that it is relentless in its endeavors and it will not pass by anything that can improve its life, if the ant can use it, no matter how big it is, the ant can reduce it to a size where it can be moved.
The ant is not overwhelmed by the size of its challenge, it just reduces it to a size that it can manage.
I remember as a child putting road kill on ant hills and coming back days later and seeing it totally gone, amazed at how theses tiny ants could reduce an animal to just bones and fur.
Amazing, for the ant no challenge is to big, just reduce it to a size she can handle, one bite at a time.
And so with us when faced with big challenges that seem to overwhelm us, reduce our challenges down to manageable bits and work through them one step at a time, just like the ant, do not try to fix it in one fell swoop, that usually ends in disappointment.
When faced with a big challenge I always write it out and then work out how to master it one step at a time, it is easier to accomplish, a small step taken many times over, is better than one great leap of faith.
Great accomplishments are achieved by small steps each day, very seldom is it one big event.
Patience is the ants greatest asset, because she knows that if she just keeps working on the issue she will eventually overcome, patience always wins.
Most overnight successes take years.
Be relentless until the job is done, patient until the end, always play the long game.
Ants are self-motivated, and need no boss to ensure they get their work done.
Artists need to be self motivated and stay in the studio until the work is done.
You are your own boss and you are your own employee, so work when you have to work, don't be lazy and put things off and find excuses to do other things, work when you have to work.
“Take a lesson from the ants. Learn from their ways and become wise!”
Learn to be self motivated.
Learn to be patient.
Learn to be relentless.
Learn to be your own boss, not the social club organizer, not the art group party organizer.
Learn that small disciplines applied daily will change your life.
Be wise like the ant.


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