Well, hello, hello. I am Antrice Wood. I am the host of the Savvy Painter podcast,

and I started this podcast because I wanted to create something that would give you my fellow

artists, practical, tactical tips to help you create a meaningful art practice that is both fulfilling and supports you.

So if you have been listening to The Savvy Painter for a while, thank you so much.

And if you are new here, welcome. I am so glad you found the podcast.

So I was talking to an artist who had been going through her sketchbooks

from last year and we were just talking about how proud she was of some of the images and

noticing how there was this thread that ran through some of them that showed up in later works.

And it was kind of a really beautiful look back through

some of the work that she had done. But we also noticed something different. She found these

little notes and little words and little things that she had written down throughout the past year.

Every few pages, there were, there were ideas that she'd had and projects that

she'd wanted to start and names of people that she had run into or met or talked to that

could help her with some of those ideas who wanted to help. But she never got any further

with it. And she was kind of disappointed that she had spent

the year spinning her wheels, even though there was some things in the year that she was really

proud of. There were some pieces that she created that she did really like. But overall, she had this

sense that she had just spent the year very busy but not fulfilling.

So I wanted to talk about that. I wanted to talk about setting goals for yourself and your

artwork and how we can look at goals, how we can choose goals, and some of the reasons this might

be helpful for you. So I know at the beginning of the year,

we talk about there's a million resolutions and all that stuff.

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