Just as with any career or business enterprise there are many things involved in trying to succeed as a professional commercial artist. It involves a lifestyle change especially when my normal job, which has nothing to do with cartooning, is pretty much dead in the water because of covid-19. It forces me to get busy pivoting and finding new avenues of approach to earning an income. It involves new habits, lifestyle changes, new business model, new hours, new goals, new acquaintances. With all this newness it leads to one cold hard fact: new habits are sequential not simultaneous.
If that's the case then it's realistic not to expect any real gains for many months or even years especially if it take 66 days to create a habit as prescribed in The One Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan but who wants to wait that long?
Fortunately most of the new habits it takes to obtain success are mental and the tasks associated with it don't have to be done repeatedly but it does take time. There is a lot of that going around lately.
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