Hey y'all just a quick heads up the episode you're about to listen to is 8 to 10 years old

now these episodes were intended to be evergreen and I still believe there's a lot of good

information in these early episodes, but I do want to let you know that some of my ideas have evolved

over time. Times have changed since we made these episodes and ultimately I'd like to think I've grown

a lot as an artist and a human and that these don't necessarily represent my best work or the best of the podcast.

If you're new around here, I suggest starting with the most recent episode or

at least go back to around 300 and move forward from there.

Enjoy the episode. All right, grab a coffee. It's time for the Creative Pep Talk podcast with Andy J Miller. The feedback has been pouring in and

it's been really nice. I hate to be some you know

Obsessor over

feedback and praise and I try not to be that person

But it's good to know that people are using this resource

because if they weren't, then I wouldn't do it.

Just because that's what it's for.

It's for other people.

And so that's been nice and I really appreciate it.

Today we're going to talk about choosing your battles.

And I like, I felt like the actual words of that sound exactly like what I want to talk about,

but the phrase is not really what I mean. So what do I mean when I say

choose your battles? Well, what I mean is every avenue, every path that you decide on taking in your art career,

every one of those is going to be some kind of battle.

Some of them very difficult and some of them not as difficult. Some of them will really be battles that you're set up to win and that you have the skills and the talent and all the pieces in your

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