How can I improve my mindset and feel better about my business and my situation?

Try this experiment: cut out 100% of the news from your daily consumption for two weeks. Don’t read newspapers, don’t watch cable news, don’t read news on the internet. Replace those inputs with something different. You’ll be amazed at how much happier you feel about yourself, your neighbors, your community, and your country. This illustrates a bigger point: monitor the source of your inputs carefully. In the art business, photographers and artists often consume inputs filled with wrong information, nonproductive advice, and shiny objects—often from people who aren’t selling any art themselves and have never had success doing so. That becomes a cancer on your mindset. The good news is it’s really easy to fix, just like with the news. Change your inputs. Surround yourself with people who are actually achieving success, and your mindset will transform.

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Asked by an artist struggling with negative mindset · Answered by Patrick Shanahan · art-marketing-podcast · 2020-08-05