Lessons for our Art Business from the Ants.



Life and business is like the seasons, you will experience all of them and one great truth is that life happens to us all, it rains on the rich and the poor, disappointment and unhappiness are not possessions of the poor, everyone experiences them.
We are going to do a 6 part series on the lessons we can learn from the ant and how it can be applied to our Art practice.
In your Art practice, think like the Ant.

Ancient text teaches us the danger of laziness in our lives, it points us to an unlikely teaching source. “Go to the ant you lazy person! Consider her ways and be wise”.
It tells us, to learn valuable life lessons from the ant.
What can we learn from the ants that we can apply in a positive way to our Art business?

Ants teach us how to be self-motivated.
“Ants which, having no captain, overseer, or ruler, provides her supplies in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest”.
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 leader to ensure they get their work done.
Why?
Their work is for their own good!
As Artists, taking our Art practice seriously means we no longer need someone standing behind us, whip in hand, to ensure our work gets done, to get us to deliver our work on time, to be punctual for appointments and to build our saving for our future financial success, we are to do that and these are all positive life skills we need to learn and incorporate into our Art careers.
Over the next six days we will look lessons we can learn from the ants.
Starting tomorrow, Ants are resolute.



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