Passion Smashin

Being passionate about something doesn't mean you're good at it. Likewise being good at something doesn't mean you're passionate about it. In the field of art, whether drawing, painting or sculpting there are lies that seem to be popular among the artist crowd that, if nothing else, justifies their lack of initiative and laziness. 

One lie is that you will one day be discovered. Truthfully you won't be discovered, ever. Your success, no matter what you do, is 100% your responsibility and passion has nothing to do with it. It's all about finding your niche audience and marketing to them. 

The fact of the matter is there is no substitute for hard work and there are no shortcuts to success; It must be earned. Don't make the mistake of sitting around waiting to be discovered when you already have enough to do for ten life times.

A Professional Amateur

 

My studio consists of a cigar box with all my drawing and writing implements inside it. As owner of a professional pressure washing company, I don't own my own pressure washer or for that matter, not much of anything else in the way of equipment. 

I am a reading enthusiast. My intake of books, articles, speakers, podcasts, etc are overwhelmingly self improvement and business related subjects but the fact of the matter is that over the last nine or ten years, since I've been self-employed, not much has changed. I'm no closer to my aspiring goals today than I was when I first began this endeavor in 2011. When it comes to being a professional artist it's been even longer; closer to twenty years. 

I'm a platitude junkie, but here I have to admit that the "platitude", in the truest sense of the word, is a harmless oft quoted, inoffensive slogan used by spineless life coaches or housewives who sell scented candles or essential oils from their kitchen table. My direction has gone from harmless platitudes toward cynical sarcasm.

I'm not a "born entrepreneur" so if I ever hope to be a good example to my generation of working stiffs who desire something more, then much needs to change with me.

"For All Mediocrities in the World"