for many months now, having immersed myself in the art world of pursuing self-employment through art, i found myself being asked time and time again what my "secret" was to selling, to creating, to staying so headstrong through it all. and through it all, three answers always came up and were always left as a bit of a noodle-scratcher to most who asked me this; self-discipline, perseverance, and sacrifice. simple. so simple yet, when I answer this, people tend to get confused. the thing is, it is those three things that will get you through anything in life, really. having lived by these three ideas for basically my entire life, I always still found trouble explaining to people the details. until I came upon this article from Behance. if you’re an artist and are not on Behance already, I highly suggest you get on it. today. it isn’t your standard portfolio website, I’ve come to find. there are tons of resources and the work there is amazing. so much so that I am very selective myself of what I upload to it versus say this website or even facebook. but that’s off the topic.
the point I am making is that I received this article through the email newsletter, which I have been making a point to carefully read after sifting through some other nuggets of golden information in passed newsletters. and it goes into deep detail about self-control, sacrifice, success, criticism, diligence, and the connection between them all. I was so amazed that someone was able to put it into words finally because let’s face it—I certainly didn’t want to make the time to do so. with art shows, client work, the 95, personal creations, family, friends, social meetings, guilty pleasures, domestic duties like dreadful dishes or laundry, entertainment, food, hygiene, discovering the next exoplanet, and so on—I just didn’t ever make the time explain my “simple” self-discipline and sacrifice model of how I live my life. but I feel this article does a very fine tuned job of explaining how I even got this far in not just the art world, but in life as a whole; my experience as a human being.
the interesting thing is I still learned from this. even when I thought I had it figured out. I realized perhaps the self-discipline aspect of my path wasn’t as responsible for as much as I thought. of course, I could be wrong about that as well. the thing is guys, very often, I don’t know what I am doing. however I do believe it comes from an inherent part in all of us that I have been able to tap into through self-discipline and meditation. and not even realizing it. the rest I just kinda found through self-exploration and overall trying to understand the world around me in this human experience.
I hope you all have made it this far and I certainly hope you read the following articles thoroughly and carefully to better understand the previous ramblings. there are so many ideas in these two articles that will help you overcome any obstacle in your career and possibly in your very life. learn to apply these ideas from others’ outstanding success into your own pursuit of success and you will see the “secret” to being successful and thereby we will all be successing (to speak in the vein of Murs). the wonderful part is, if you can apply these tenements, ANYONE can be successful. and not that i am nowhere NEAR the level of success i want to achieve so be forewarned when you ask how i got to this level of success because it is always growing and i am always looking to evolve as an artist and a person. so my level of success today will not be the same as it will be tomorrow.
Stay Creative,
BLUZILLA ONE
1 comment:
Sooo dope!
Post a Comment