When You Don’t Get What You Want

Sometimes we want something really really really hard and… don’t get it.

Click to enbiggen.I don’t have all the answers on turning this into a pain-free experience, but I do have some tips on how to be grateful for how far you got, how to recognize the lessons in the experience, how to know this is something we *all* go through as artists MANY times, and how to reset focus to get your brain back to its better-feeling state, STAT!

Because we’ve got important work to do, here. And that means we can only stay really bummed out for a short period of time.

Yes, give yourself the “bummedness” for sure! Honor that it feels like shit to not get something we really really really wanted. Of course! But when it’s time to move on from that, this is how to start.

You’ve got this!