The summer slump and my new resolve!

School starts up in a week. Even though I graduated my body clock still runs on the 3 month segments of time between semesters and summer. I look back on the summer and realize I have done nothing. No progress was made to move my art career forward and I am disappointed with myself. 

While I've been at work this summer, I've been able to listen to podcasts that I found on iTunes. Two podcasts in particular have been very helpful and motivating for me and I would recomend then to everyone. The first is "Achive your goals podcast with Hal Elrod" Each podcast Hal talks about principals and action steps to setting and reaching your goals. I have learned a ton of stuff and have been overly inspired from what he has taught and something that he constantly emphasizes is doing the daily little things. Taking consistent daily actions to achieve your goals. This constant reminder helped me realize that I wasn't working on my goals of being a productive working artist as often as I should, and in order to take my art to the next level I need to be working every day on something. 

The other podcast I listen to is "Artist helping artist podcast." This podcast is pretty great because it really goes in depth with a lot of the marketing and promoting side of the art business. Each episode covers different topics from getting a website, blogging, email lists, promoting your artwork on social media and so much more. I have really found this podcast helpful and inspiring. 

Like I said, these two podcasts are fantastic and if anyone out there is looking for some inspiration or motivation, these are great resources. 

Now my for my action. Inspiration is only good if there is action taken so after having been inspired to do more for my art career I have decided to commit myself to a 30 day drawing challenge to push myself into drawing and sketching more. One thing that Hal talks about in his podcast is accountability. He says to make your goals public and let others know about then. The reason for doing this is if other people are depending on you, you are more likely to follow through. So here it is my public declaration that for the next 30 days I am committing myself to drawing everyday.