Hey everybody, how's it going?

I hope you're having a great day.

Wherever you are in this world, know that I'm thinking about you, which is one of the reasons I put this show out every day.

And I wanted to contemplate something I think is often overlooked.

And I think it grounds us.

It's grounded me in the best moments of my career

and has come back to save me in the worst and the hardest moments in my career. And that is the

reminder that creative lives and creative careers, they're designed. They happen intentionally.

It's not an accident.

You know, the so-called lucky ones, the people who live wildly creative lives or are paid to do what they love, you know, they built what they have deliberately and strategically.

It might not look like that sometimes from the outside, but I promise in some way,

shape, or form, maybe their own awkward, weird way, they created a vision and they worked

toward achieving that vision. Every person that you know started out likely exactly where you are

right now or perhaps even further back.

So I got a message right now it's time to put your work boots on and start kicking some ass.

Now, no matter where you are right this minute or today in your career or life, whether you're stuck or not, I know that you can design a fulfilling and creative life for yourself.

It's not important, whether you're already a professional artist or you're simply what I call creative curious.

I'm going to suggest and invoke, in fact, that you start from now,

start from scratch. Ask yourself how you would truly like to express your creativity. Not just,

that's just one of those bucket list items that are, you know, so easy to write down like, finish my novel or write a few

short stories or I'm talking about a bucket list item that is like every day for the rest of

your life. What do you want to do? If you're a working photographer, maybe it's

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