The Results From Your Actions Fuel Your Belief In Yourself

You started by recognizing your potential to make a living as a full time artist. This potential caused you to take action. The actions you took started to produce results. And from those results you really begin to believe in yourself and your potential. The process has come full circle.

I think that belief is the most exciting part of this whole cycle. Belief is the part where you start to realize that you were not crazy thinking you had potential. Belief comes from making sales, being accepted to a show, being awarded a grant, or being featured in an article, just to name a few results. It comes from the results that reinforce the notion of your potential, solid outside validation that you are indeed a working artist.

It is important that when you get results that foster belief in yourself that you start the process over and once again look at your potential. Small victories hint at the potential of larger ones. You will see even more potential in yourself which will allow you take more and bigger action which will produce even better results than before, which will get you to an even stronger belief in yourself. A cycle of growth and goals begins.

I quickly created this crude diagram to help illustrate that cycle:

Told you it was crude, but hopefully you get the point. Just remember to look at your results and believe in yourself.

One last time…

Here we are again with one last film clip from The Matrix. This one makes its point in about 20 seconds. Our here Neo has been taught that no one can stand up to an “agent.” That when you see an agent all you can do is run because everyone who has ever fought an agent has died. In this scene Neo looks at his escape route and then remembers the actions and the results that got him to this point and he believes in himself enough to turn and fight the agent.