An Artist Journey - The ups and downs of creation, and how to keep moving forward. — Store News

We have all heard about mind over matter. Now I am not saying that the dream fairy is going to show up and give you everything you want but maybe it's more of a mind set over matter. Maybe it's more about how you tackle life everyday that matters. I am sure many of you have seen the interview going around on social media several months back. It was an interview with LeBron James when he was 16 and had just won the basketball state championship for the second time. I am certainly not clamming to be a basketball fan...I...

We all get burned out in life. You get to a point where you don't care to move forward, what's the point? You don't see the benefit of continuing as it feels hopeless, you will never get where you are trying to go. This is the exact point where it is most important to push forward. Push through the burn out. Your goal, your reward, and your destination is right on the other side. Pushing through is the difference between greatness and mediocrity. Any professional athlete, successful businessman, fitness trainer, or anyone who has achieved anything worth while will tell...

In so many ways we are more in touch with more people than any previous generation. With our cell phones we can be reached anywhere, emails we can get messages, photos, documents, whatever in a matter of seconds. Let's not forget our ever growing appetite for social media. We know who is having a baby, who's getting married, whose kids are in what sports for hundreds of "friends."We are taught about more walks of life and more health circumstances than ever before. We are teaching our children not to hate people and to accept people for who and what they...