The only things you can change.




Being a successful Artist is learning the discipline of focusing on the things that you can control and not on the things that you cannot control.
To much emotional energy is wasted on things that we have no control over, so learn to focus on what you can change.
Within your Art practice you have the ability to change everything, you can change your style, your medium, your work habits and everything relating to your Art and yourself, but most seem to focus more on what they cannot change.
You cannot change the government, you can rail at the wind but it will make no difference.
You cannot change the economy, it is the way it is.
You cannot change your buyers attitudes, they are the way they are.
You cannot change Galleries, they will do what they believe is best for them.
You cannot change what others think and say, people are people.
The only things you can change is your Art practice and yourself.
If you work on fixing all your own faults, you will change your world.
The greatest key to success is within you.
The decision to change and then doing it all starts within you.
No body can motivate you to do it, no one can force you to do it, you have to make a quality decision to change and then act on that decision.
Change you and you change your world.











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