What Does Success Mean to You? [156]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This week we are talking about success and asking what that word means to you? In particular, we distinguish between external and internal yardsticks. External yardsticks are things like sales numbers, Instagram followers, or show acceptances, and we have both seen these measurements halt people in their tracks. These things are, to some extent, out of our control and they also continually shift and change because we will never be satisified. In this episode, we discuss our own experiences with external measures of success and we suggest an alternative approach - setting your own internal benchmarks. These internal measures of success can keep you focused, motivated and excited about your work, allowing you to stay in control of your emotional wellbeing. We'd love to hear what you think about this discussion - and how you measure success.
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Authentic Obsessions Podcast https://www.authenticobsessions.com/
Trayci Tompkins http://www.traycitompkins.co.za/
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| 0:00.0 | So there's never a finished arriving stage at any of this. |
| 0:04.1 | It's just like, what's next for me? |
| 0:06.3 | What's next for me? |
| 0:07.9 | What can I do now? |
| 0:09.1 | What's next to me? Hi everybody and welcome to episode 156 of Arches. This is honest generous and |
| 0:22.3 | humorous conversations that will feed your |
| 0:24.8 | creative soul and get you thinking with me, Louise Fletcher. |
| 0:28.6 | And me Alice Sheridan. |
| 0:31.4 | And today's topic arose from a conversation I had with another artist. |
| 0:36.0 | Our topic we're going to talk about is what does success mean to you? |
| 0:40.0 | We're just going to discuss all things success. |
| 0:43.4 | But before we get onto that, |
| 0:45.8 | what kind of successful week have you had, Alice? |
| 0:48.8 | Well, it was funny. |
| 0:49.5 | I had quite a few comments from people |
| 0:51.4 | after last week's episode messaging me and saying I'm sorry you've had a crappy week but of course it came |
| 0:58.2 | it is nice that people care but of course it came out on Tuesday and actually we |
| 1:05.8 | record on a Thursday on Friday I went into the studio and had a really good day. |
| 1:11.5 | So that's always what happens. isn't it funny how that happens yeah and I went in |
| 1:16.8 | feeling like I had these images I had to send to the gallery and I was like and I told you before I'd got them all out I'd looked at them all I was like yeah they kind of go together and there was something in me that was going mmm are you really sure are you really sure yet? And on Friday I did some work on one that's in the middle stages and I also got these other ones out and I thought |
| 1:45.7 | just ask myself a question are you really happy for these to go? Is there anything |
| 1:49.9 | in them that bothers you and with some of them I did that kind of final flourish thing that nobody else |
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