Limiting beliefs are there for a reason. They served a purpose once but are no longer appropriate now that you’ve grown and circumstances have changed.
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John Paul: Hi. John Paul Fischbach, the CEO and Chief Alchemist here at the Auspicious Arts Incubator and I welcome you to this week’s Hot Tip Tuesday. It’s a special treat. In the studio with me is Liz O’Brien.
Liz: Hello.
John Paul: Liz is our belief buster here at the Auspicious Arts Incubator so I thought in the whole idea of helping with belief and limiting belief that’s kind of a theme for some of the Hot Tip Tuesdays. I thought that we would get the expert in to talk about limiting beliefs.
Liz: All right. Is there anything in particular that you want to know?
John Paul: If you’ve got a limiting belief and you say okay, I have this. It seems to me that one of the things you try to help people with is to say that actually served a purpose once. It’s not helpful now but it did serve a purpose once and it’s not like you’re going to get rid of it. You just have to understand?
Liz: You kind of do get rid of it when you bring awareness to it and understanding that it wasn’t wrong. Sometimes people are embarrassed and they go I used to. It’s a bit like looking at bad fashion from old photos. My God, I can’t believe I wore my hair like that but the thing is those fashions were in at the time and belief that you’re looking at served some kind of useful purpose. Is there a particular belief that you want to…
John Paul: One of the common ones that we wrestle with as artists is if you’re making money then you’re not making art anymore. The moment that you make money from it it’s not art or you’ve lost your artistic integrity or money corrupts integrity or something around that.
Liz: Or you’ve sold out in some way.
John Paul: Yes.
Liz: I can picture when an artist is developing and so in their formative years and that’s particularly therefore teens and twenties. When you’re starting to develop as an artist and create your identity and explore. In order to do that and find your voice and know who you are as an artist. You need to be able to explore all sorts of ways of expressing yourself. Typically you dont want your parents to tell you what to do. You dont want anybody to tell you how it ought to be done. You need to be able to explore and therefore you wouldn’t want the market to dictate how you create your art even fi as a young person that wasn’t a conscious awareness you just dont want anybody imposing their thing on you.
John Paul: Sure, I adopted that belief as an art student in studio. It was no one was going to tell me and yes, I get that. That belief protects you from creating…
Liz: It allows you to grow. It allows you to grow and explore and find out who you really are and find your voice.
John Paul: Right but once you have your own voice, once you know what your creative expression is and people want that expression that’s not the same.
Liz: No because once people want what you’ve got, what you’ve created, how you’ve expressed it. You’re expressing for them something that they probably can’t articulate themselves or can’t express themselves. If they love what you do that means that you’ve done something very special because that is the artist’s role…
John Paul: If that makes money then that’s a good thing because it’s your unique voice now.
Liz: Yes.
John Paul: Got it, okay. That makes perfect sense. That’s how beliefs work. That’s why they were at one point but not useful now. Did you look this Hot Tip? Be sure to subscribe to the next one and tell your fellow artists about us. If you want real, practical help and support to thrive as an artist check us out at the AuspiciousIncubator.com.au.
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