Hey, it's Antrice and welcome to another episode of the Sabby Painter Podcast.

If you are a longtime listener of the podcast, welcome back. And if you are new here, I am so glad you found the podcast.

Sappy Painter Podcast is the podcast for artists who want practical tactical

tips to create a meaningful art practice that is fulfilling and supports you.

So I'm kind of curious. Have you ever set a big art goal only to second guess at the very next day?

I think as artists we get really, really excited about our goals.

Well, I don't know if it's just artists. It's probably because we're human. We get really,

really excited about our goals, whether that's exhibitions, new techniques, number of paintings

that we want to create or sell or both, only to feel this wave

of doubt, which I call goal remorse. It's this sort of pressure or this sense of this like

twinge of anxiety that we get after setting the goal. Like this is a bit of pressure that kind of sinks in right after.

So I thought we would talk about it because it is a thing and a lot of people experience it.

So I'm going to go over what it means and give you some practical tactical tips

so that by the end of this episode, you will have concrete

strategies to calm that overthinking, feel good about your choices, and stay on track

with your vision. So goal remorse, what is it? Goal remorse is when you feel that twinge of regret

or anxiety or that uncertainty about the goal that you have

chosen. And this is absolutely normal. Even with the best of goals, even with the goals that are

very well laid out, we tend to have this experience of goal remorse. And that's because

we're taking action on something that's important to us so often. And especially when we are

new to this kind of work, we feel slightly anxious or uncertain because we so often have a lot of ideas tied into getting

this result. It's like getting the result ties directly into, in our case, who we are as an artist

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