Imagine you want to make money as an artistic painter.

Practice painting.

My father has been practicing a lot of things from a variety of time-frames. I remember when I was a child and he would practice is conducting and his trumpet. I would practice playing the piano.

My father had a binder and the front page was a list and every day he would check the items on his list. And that was a very long time ago. Circa 1994

Today my father sold his first painting. Not the first painting he painted, but today for the first time, he exchanged his art for money. When I told him he gigged his hobby, he laughed. And then he said, “and after I deliver the painting, I’m teaching a trumpet lesson.” My father is a trained musician and has been practicing and teaching the trumpet for over sixty years. Circa 1963

Write down an action that you want to get better at over one years time.

When you are consistent at one thing, and you repeat an action item towards your goal, you will be 37% better at the one thing you chose to focus on.

A good marker is to ask yourself, not that the time has passed and you don’t get to go back, knowing what you know now - what could you have started last year and would have improved the quality of your life today?

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