ART INSIGHTS Creating Wealth as a Successful Artist - John Dahlsen

3. FOCUS.Successful artists have the ability to focus.If it’s not natural, they develop it, and thisis a reason they have success over thosewho never identify a specific goal. Build intoyour lifestyle an effective exercise programthat can help you focus. The idea, or shouldI say the romantic notion, that artists sitaround all night drinking copious amountsof alcohol and in some cases using otherintoxicants in order to build inspiration isvery largely outdated. We are simply in adifferent, more advanced time.In Australia we have a very popular formof sport called cricket. During the ‘70s,‘80s and early ‘90s we were constantlyhearing about our national team’sindiscretions on airplanes or while visitingoverseas countries, players goading eachother into drinking contests and settingrecords still standing at over 50 drinksin an evening! Times have changed.These days, misbehaving – even for thesmallest infraction – simply isn’t tolerated.64