Hi all! I wanted to share some advice with you that comes from a few conversations I've had over the last few weeks with my kids. My daughter wants to be an artist and my son wants to be an author, but both are struggling with exactly how to get better, so I'd like to share with you the advice that I gave them (albeit somewhat paraphrased for this audience, but the same principles apply) I moved my PC from the office at the bottom of the garden into the living room so I could be on hand whilst they were off school. I realised that they were spending a lot of time watching the same rubbish TV series on Netflix that they've seen hundreds of times. I was getting sick of hearing the same annoying character voices and the canned laughter so I sat them down and had a word with them both! You only get so many hours of your free time, and how you choose to spend it is up to you. You can watch as much awful mind numbing TV as you like if that's how you choose to spend your time, but you can't then complain that you're not getting better at your art work or your hobbies, or whatever it may be. Choose instead to invest your time to develop your skills and it'll be the best investment that you'll ever make! Want to get an admin job in an office or a job at a supermarket stacking shelves and hating every minute but you have to do it to pay your bills? Or would you rather spend your free time to develop valuable skills that can enable you to get paid to do the thing you love? the latter is entirely possible, but you need to make sure that you are dedicated! set that goal in your mind and make every thought, decision and action toward making that dream a reality! Know that your dream is an inevitability, but you need to make it happen through your own inspired action! Your time is precious - use it wisely!

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I was asked recently by a good friend if I could offer any advice from the point of view of a professional, commercial artist to those looking to embark on a career in art. I came up with many gems, but the following for me is one of the single most important things that you should take onboard. Mindset, focus, and what people like to call manifestation all point to the same thing: what you believe to be true shapes the actions you take, and the actions you take shape your results. It doesn’t matter whether you think the universe is helping you or you think that’s all crystal-shop nonsense — the mechanism still works. You must decide, in your own head, that your success is inevitable. Not “I hope I make it”, not “maybe one day”… but “this is happening, now let’s build it.” Don’t discount this I’ve studied a lot of successful business people over the years — multi-millionaires, billionaires, founders, creators — and a fascinating pattern shows up again and again. They don’t talk about if they’ll succeed. They talk about how and when. Failure simply isn’t on the menu. Listen to something like The Diary of a CEO podcast and you’ll hear this mindset constantly: relentless belief, long-term focus, and an unshakeable expectation of success. They might not call it manifestation, but it is — unwavering belief driving behaviour until the outcome becomes unavoidable. Your brain backs this up. It has a built-in filtering system called the Reticular Activating System (RAS). Its job is to decide what information matters and what gets ignored. It doesn’t judge what’s true — it looks for evidence of whatever you already believe. If you believe you’re not good enough, your brain will serve you endless proof: slow sales, rejections, other artists “doing better”. If you believe you are becoming successful, your brain starts highlighting opportunities, connections, and openings that were always there — you just weren’t tuned to see them. It’s like being told to look for red cars on your way to work. Suddenly they’re everywhere. Then ask how many yellow cars you saw on that same journey and you won’t have a clue — your brain filtered them out. This is why negative self-talk is poison for creative businesses. You are literally instructing your own mind to hide opportunities from you. And this advice comes directly from experience - I’ve been there and made this realisation the hard way!