Are you hungry for success, or satisfied with the buffet of creating when you please? I was chatting with an artist in one of my recent workshops and she said she created for herself, that she wasn’t hungry enough to be an artist as a profession. This is interesting because the conversation was started with her sharing some of her story of growing up in poverty. I was curious why her history didn’t affect her present mindset now that she is secure in life. We talked more about her work, and she told me she is happy if she sells something [...]

When you pay attention to the details, you wake up to your power and the realization that you are enough. I originally wrote this in November of 2018. I have revisited it with updates, yet the message is still true.   I believe that we as a culture are living in a time where the mindset is scarcity, and division. When we are afraid that there isn’t enough to go around, we build walls around ourselves and try to gather more of what we think we need, excluding others out of fear. The behavior that results from the idea of scarcity is accumulation. [...]