What do you do when you arrive at the easel or the writing desk and you feel sluggish, rusty, awkward, uncomfortable, without muscle tone, and like you don’t belong?

If you already knew you were “good” how would that change your art practice?

Your container could be a bowl, a box, a jar—anything that can sit in the middle of your life and and hold your next big idea as it grows into being.

My two-minute memoir appears in the August issue of Psychology Today on newsstands on Tuesday, June 30.

Read "Create an Engaging Website"  from the June/July 2015 issue of Professional Artist.

How do you allow time for the daily graduations, from who you were to who you are becoming?

"You serve your community by developing your talents."

Try vacuuming.

Are you spending the first part of your day on what matters most?

We set the type, letter by letter, picking up the cold metal squares and placing them upside down and backwards into the “composing stick”...

A new year call for a new headshot...

Put one decision in one hand and the other decision in the other hand. Feel the weight in each. See what you learn. 

Are you devoting enough time to your art so that you'll benefit from the snowball effect of years of art making?

As an actor and writer, I've been thinking lately about how I’ve been dealing with the failure I seem to be having at auditions and with writing submissions...

How are you leaving room for the buds to bloom next year?

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Before the year runs out, visit that place, talk to that person, ask your questions. You never know what gold you may find.