"I will not fail my friends..just a little bit more..."
In our everyday lives, we often slide down the slippery slope of mediocrity. Whether it's sleeping in "just a little bit more" or it's "just a little bit more" before you turn off facebook and get back to creating, "just a little bit more" ends up rolling into a huge pile of procrastination. This, in turn, transforms itself into a barrier from you becoming extraordinary.
While there is nothing wrong with being ordinary, if you really wanted to be ordinary, I doubt you'd be reading this. You're here because you hate that feeling of mediocrity that we all get (no seriously, from painters who are known the world over to Monkey + Seal) from time to time.
That dull feeling of not doing enough, that there is not enough time, that your work isn't ______ enough, that you don't know the right people or that it's just so damn hard to get up and stop watching anime and crappy horror movies on Netflix. Mediocrity is that feeling of "just a little bit more" of watching television, or playing video games.
While we always want everyone to stay healthy and be sustainable, don't confuse sustainability with procrastination. Also, while we believe that everyone will make it to their dreams someday, you can make "someday" come a lot sooner if you hustle and get down to creating.
So how do you defeat "just a little bit more" and move on to realizing your amazing true self? We admit, it's especially hard since it's so easy to ride that slippery slope into "just one more," then "just one more," on repeat until you have bed sores and your eyes are burning from too much exposure to computer monitor radiation. Well, you don't. The thing that you change is what you do "just a little bit" more.
When it's late at night and you're working on a painting, think "just a little bit more." When you're dancing and your legs are getting tired but you're wondering when you should quit, think "just a little bit more."
Overnight, no one goes from unknown to mega-celebrity, from student to master, from hobbyist to professional. No one goes from being shy about your art to speaking about it in front of curators, or from getting stage fright to completely owning a stage without hard work.
We get it. Doing stuff that helps realize your true potential is really difficult work. You have to do things that you know you should be doing even though they might make you feel uncomfortable. But if you do them "just a little bit more," they'll become easier and easier. So try pushing yourself "just a little bit more" and start to realize that badass artist that you really are.
