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The other day I was talking to some of my students and we were talking about that feeling of overwhelm.

It seems to be a common theme these days. I'm getting emails from

listeners, my students, I'm seeing it in the comments on my Instagram feed, and so I

thought I'd share some tools to help you out. I know a lot of you know what I'm talking about.

Overwhelms sneaks up on you at any time but we seem especially susceptible to it

around the holidays.

There's so much going on at the end of the year and if you're

selling your work it's also when we can really double down and get some sales of

our paintings. There are lots of end of the year show happenings, all that's going

on and we want our painting practice to be consistent.

And then New Year's hits, and all you hear about are setting goals, making resolutions,

and sometimes it feels like so much pressure to change your life right now.

As if at the stroke of midnight our lives completely changed like with a calendar change

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