Don’t base your success on your surroundings. Your surroundings can change at the drop of a hat, or the changing of the wind. Know that the success is in the doing, regardless of the outcome.

You don’t need certification to qualify you. Qualification comes by picking yourself, practicing and shipping your work everyday.

The practice: Do creative work everyday, in every way possible. Ship work that matters. See your art as a game changer. Find your voice amidst the ruckus. Know that you have what it takes. Pick yourself.

Don’t become overwhelmed by life’s demands. the situations that you have no control over can cause you to want to shut down, run and hide. Find your solitude, find your place, find your peace. Find the funny, find the interesting, find the thing that keeps you moving forward, “step by step, inch by inch!” The world is waiting.

Showing up everyday and during your creative work helps you fight thru the resistance. Shipping what you made regardless of the outcome teaches you, that no matter what’s going in the world or in your life, you can control your response. My response is to write.

Hey imposter! Hey you fake, you phony, what are you during showing up today? Do you think you got what it takes to make a difference? Do you think you’re worth listening to? Yes!

Be thankful today and everyday for the blessing and opportunity that you have to create.

It’s a new day. It’s a new day to create, it’s a new day to show up for the practice. It’s a new day to be wrong, it’s a new day to be right. It’s a new day to ship your best work, it’s a new day to ship your crap. Regardless of the outcome, it’s a new day.

Everyone will not go where you’re going, do what you’re doing, say what you’re saying, or see what you’re seeing. Why? Because it’s not for them. Everyone is not your audience, everyone is not your tribe. Keep showing up, keep creating, keep shipping. In time your audience will find you.

Like it or not, we’re all in sales. Each day we’re selling something to someone, whether it’s a product, service, belief, or even the attention you bring to yourself. As Zig Ziglar would say; “Sales is a transfer of emotions!” Question, what emotions are you transferring today?