Dear artists,

Here are some great articles we've found on the internet over the past week that are directly applicable to helping you with art, marketing, inspiration and fine living:

Christina Kane teaches us to overcome negative thinking with an analogy to email spam:

"Should you bombard your mind spam with affirmations? Should you try to smile and pretend your mind doesn’t do this kind of thing? Should you try to clean up all of your thoughts so that they don’t happen ever again? 
Well, you can work on that stuff, sure. But the mind will keep churning it out. And my advice is this:  When mind spam happens, do exactly what you do when email spam happens. . . . ."

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Seth reminds why we must remain vigilant regarding the quality of our work:

"I’ve flown across the country to visit this museum--a building that cost more than a billion dollars to create and fill and maintain. Is my attention focused enough? . . . ."

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Zen Habits shows us how to create an attitude of gratitude:

"More than anything else, I want to avoid ambling through life without a sense of awareness and purpose. To make that happen, I’ve decided that I want gratefulness to be one of my core values. In other words, I want to create a life of gratitude… but what does that mean? . . ."

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Enjoy the advice from the minds of these insightful commentators.  We hope you found something inspirational or useful to your own art career.

Sincerely,

Clint Watson
Software Craftsman and Art Fanatic