This week, I’m sharing some love and I want you to share it too. I’m John Paul Fischbach. I’m the Chief Alchemist as well as the CEO here at the Auspicious Arts Incubator. When was the last time you celebrated your talent and your creativity? When was the last time you celebrated the unique way you see the world or the fact that you have this amazing ability to create things and to transform things and to inspire people and to bring more love into the world? You know, we don’t stop and feel the love enough. We don’t give each other enough hugs. So here’s three great big hugs.

Hug number one is to say thank you for being an artist. Seriously, thank you. No one forced this life on you, you chose it. You chose to follow the muse, to honor your gift, to pursue the wild and windy path of creation and discovery, and I wanna salute that choice. So please pass this love along. Do you know someone who’s made the same choice? Please give them this first hug to say thank you. Hug number two is because you and your art are powerful. You and your art are stretching minds. You’re opening hearts and you’re changing lives. You and your art are powerful. The contribution that you make to this world is vital. So please pass this hug along. Pass this love and appreciation along to someone who is as powerful as you are. Hug number three is to hug you to honor the struggle. This has not been easy. You’ve invested your time, your heart, your money, as well as countless other resources in pursuit of making other people’s lives deeper and richer and more exciting. So please pass this compassionate love along to a fellow artist.

And if there was a magic elixir that I could create that would get you from where you are now to where you could be after you drink it, you would see your talent is rare and special and hugely important. You would believe that you can be successful. You would know how your art impacts others and you would build relationships that create raving fans and followers every single time you make art. But you know, there is no magic formula but you can have all these things and I want you to feel the love that pours from you into your creations and then I want you to feel the love that comes back to you when you share your amazing self and your awesome art. Every course and every program that we’ve created is just a way to love artists and to help you harvest the love that flows around that art.

With all my heart, thank you for choosing a life that can be hard, that can be joyous and it’s often a little bit difficult to explain, really. Thank you for being a fellow artist. So please, feel the love from me and share it with a fellow artist right now, please, right now. Don’t do anything. Share these hugs. See you next week.