Encourage yourself.

With success if you understand how you did it then it can be repeated.

It can be reviewed, refined and improved.

Now when you sell a painting watch what you say to yourself, most say I got a sale or I sold my painting.

Selling a painting is success and we must acknowledge it, say to yourself and others, “I successfully sold my painting.”

If you say it like this it is acknowledging the success and it is positive reinforcement to your self belief.

We need to talk to ourselves like it is someone we love, encourage yourself, praise yourself, use positive words that builds self belief.

If someone we know sells a painting we often say to them “congratulations” but we would never think of saying that to ourselves, yet we should say, “ Congratulations Mark you successfully sold your painting, I am successful.”

We can so quickly criticise ourselves and pull ourselves down and we need to change this and speak positive encouraging words to ourselves.

Next time you sell a painting don’t see it as just a sale, see it as a step up the ladder of success, you successfully sold your painting, inspire yourself.

Then congratulate yourself on your success.

Think about what you did, how you did it, review, refine and improve it.

These small successes are super important, see them as success and congratulate yourself.