What's stopping me from selling a piece of my art today?

Nothing is stopping you from selling art today except yourself. If you don’t sell a piece today, it’s on you. You can go live on social media right now with a piece of art and sell it. The only valid reason you couldn’t would be if you don’t have any of your work physically available to show, which itself reveals a fundamental business problem. Stop asking people to judge your work or look at your art - get out there and actually try to sell it. That’s the only validation that matters. Watch your mind as it starts talking you out of it with excuses about which piece to choose, what price to set, or what platform to use. Those mental roadblocks don’t matter - just do it.

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Asked by general teaching point · Answered by Patrick Shanahan · art-marketing-podcast · 2020-09-02