Making excuses.
It's much easier to make an excuse than an effort. There are any number of excuses people give when something doesn't work, or they don't want to do it. They are generally referred to as reasons, but let's call a spade a spade here; they are excuses. People often play the blame game. It's somebody else's fault, but is it? Occasionally, they are correct, but in general, the fault lies with the person making the excuse. Human nature comes into play here, and by that I mean, negativity, a woe-is-me attitude. The reason is that it is much easier to be negative than positive. If you were in a room with a lot of people and two dominant personalities, one negative and one positive, most of the people would surround the negative person. Unless that is, the positive person is considerably more positive than the other, who is negative.
Those who say they can, can, and those who say they can't, can't. That's an aphorism, and it's a truism. As a regular to @Hava Gurevich's The Breakfast Club, i listen to a lot of artists talking, and in my time as a Gallery Director/General Manager, I've listened to many more than most. "Oh, I can't do that!" or "I'm not comfortable doing that." or "I'm not making any sales," or a myriad of other excuses.
If you are reading this, and you sense that there is truth, about you, in what it is saying, then you need to recognize it. Until you do, you'll just continue along the same old path, and that's not what I want for you, or, more importantly, what you want for yourself.
But how do you change from the old negative you, to the new positive you?
Nobody likes change. Even homeless people don't like it. They might ask you for change, but what they really want is dollar bills. But here's the thing to remember about change. It's inevitable and without it, decay sets in. Who remembers the typewriter? Who remembers using maps to navigate. Both gone the way of the dinosaur.
Start by analyzing the cause of your negativity. Why is it? What is causing it? Is it something you're doing, or not doing? Go back, and read this article: https://www.arthelper.com/community/howtosellart/post/the-risk-of-failure
Write down your thoughts. Don't just keep them in your head as they won't take life until you write them down. (I recommend taking a sheet of paper, drawing a line down the middle, and writing down all the negative things on the left). Now go to bed and sleep on it. Let your subconscious mind wrk on them while you do. When you wake up, get a cup of coffee, and start filling in what you can do to eliminate the stuff you wrote down.
The most important thing you must do however is change your attitude. People sometimes tell me that I'm obnoxiously positive, and I am because I don't believe there is anything I can't do. I'm not good at mechanical stuff because I'm not interested in it but if push came to shove, I can figure it out. Many years ago, I became a feature writer for a full color magazine with a circulation of 80,000+ copies every week. It never occurred to me that it was difficult. Attitude is everything.
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