What are Your Priorities?

Turtle by Paula Atwell

What are your priorities as an artist? Are all your thoughts focused on making money or do you also focus some time on pure art?

I find that creating art takes my mind to a totally different place than business thoughts do,and often I come back from that creation time in a much better frame of mind and with my ideas flowing.

Since I am a painter and a jewelry artist, it is easy for me to sit down in my studio and get started on a project to work on for 30 to 60 minutes. I actually have small paintings that I like to work on during my breaks from "thinking time", and the last one became profitable for me. I posted it on my Zazzle shop for sale.

I find that I am more productive as a business person, if I spend some time on my art just about every day. It definitely keeps me less stressed.

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