My One Wish

If I had one wish for all of my artist friends out there, it would be this:

Start off the new year by dedicating yourself to one thing:

One project, one series or one idea.

Then show up, begin and stay with it. Don’t look back. And see it through.

My guess is that you have lots of ideas for projects or paintings that you would love to get to some day.

So, my wish is for you to be able to block out all the noise that comes with a new year and commit to one new cohesive body of work infused with your visual and narrative voice.

And then give yourself the gift of having the discipline and resiliency to focus on that one thing.

I’m going to sneak in a second wish here.

And that second wish is for you to set up a regular and consistent creativity schedule, right now.

And then fight like crazy to maintain that schedule until you have completed your project.

This will help you gain, build and maintain precious momentum so that you can be more productive.

The more art you make the more creative you will allow yourself to be, and the more confident you will become, and the more art you will make.

Declare right now what one project you are going to focus on to begin the new year:

What do you really want to create?
What one thing do you really want to say, communicate or evoke?
Then decide what a reasonable daily or weekly creativity schedule looks like for you.
Then begin and pay attention to your project. And more importantly, pay attention to you. And then apply yourself.

Focus on your one project.

Create what you really want to create. Create the work you were meant to create.

What do you think might happen if you tried this? It’s worth a shot to find out.

You have creative work to do!