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I want to be a daily painter. Mostly because as a part-time painter now, I need something that keeps me coming back into the studio day after day. Daily painting is a heart beak that I hope to build my studio practice around.

But oh boy, we're only half way through the first month and I am struggling. And this is the down side of daily painting: They can all feel frustrating...and it's public.

In 2015,  I made flossing my only goal each and every day. It didn’t matter if I had cooked anything or taken out the garage or jogged. If I flossed that night I told myself the day was a success.

My gums have never been healthier, and now, more or less, flossing is an entrenched habit.  

Did I accomplish other things that year? Yes. Did I show up to my day job and rock it? Yes. Was I a decent member of my family? Yes. It’s not that I didn’t do anything other than floss, it’s that that one thing, flossing, was how I gauged my day’s success.

Here we go. Day 1.

For me as an artist, goal setting is important. It can be easy to get lost in the forests of creativity without a compass. For me, goals are a compass. They are a quiet reminder to check in and make sure we're still headed north.

Even if north is totally made up.

This is one of my absolute favorite times of the year. I love Christmas but it’s not my favorite holiday in December. My eye is already on the New Year and the national holiday of Resolutions. Why Goals Are Important as an Artist Us artists, we live in a vacuum. We go out into the day armoured in sweatpants and to do lists a mile long. Goals help us not wander aimlessly through the days and weeks of my our professional lives. It can be too easy to look down in December and look up and have it already be...

I’ll admit, I can’t help but start thinking about goals for 2018. The year just tilted into the fourth quarter and oh the pull is so strong.

But before I go jumping ahead, let’s take a firm look at THIS quarter. And this quarter still has a lot going on. Namely: Big 500.