This weeks HTT John Paul Fischbach talks about the fear and gives you some advice on moving through the fear towards your infinite possibilities, your arts practice, your career, the future fearless you.
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Video Transcript:
Hi, I’m John Paul Fischbach. I’m the Chief Alchemist here at the Auspicious Arts Incubator and for this Hot Tip Tuesday I want to talk about your infinite possibility. Every day at the Auspicious Arts Incubator Craig and I work with artists to help them see their infinite possibility. There’s a strange thing that happens: there are stories that we tell ourselves to keep us inside our little soft cloud of comfort so that we never ever reach our infinite possibility.
I want to draw you a little picture, so work with me here. Over here on this side there’s a little cloud. In that little cloud there you are in your little comfort zone. It’s really comfortable and you stay in that comfort zone. And then right here is a big, huge block of fear. The fear is anything that can possibly keep you away from over here and your infinite possibility.
What happens is your inner comfort zone. There’s an opportunity that you have, there’s something that you could do that’s kind of exciting. You move outside of your comfort zone and you hit the block of fear and you think “Oh I think I’d better wait until I finish whatever current project that I’ll have. I think I’ll wait until X happens and then we go back to our comfort zone.”
Or you head out again toward your infinite possibility and you say “Oh gosh, I really can’t afford that right now so I’m not going to take that opportunity”, and you come back to your comfort zone. There’s multiple things that will happen that’ll pull you toward your infinite possibility over here, but you turn back at the fear. So what happens this big block of fear is you need to figure out a way that you just jump over top and land at your infinite possibility, but you know what? That’s not possible. That never happens.
You can’t just leap over your fear. You have to go through the fear. You have to see your infinite possibility, move through the fear. The fear is a golden opportunity to grow; so whatever that fear is move through that fear toward the infinite possibility and just look at this golden opportunity to learn something and to change and to grow. That’s what you’re after.
Please be careful of the stories that we tell ourselves that limit our arts practice that limit ourselves and our careers. It’s a little story that says you know, “I’ll do it when… It will be easier when…, I don’t have this, I need that”. Whatever those stories are those just smack us up against the fear. The important thing is to move through that fear, seize that moment because on the other side of that fear is where your infinite possibility lies. When you work with us in the Arts Incubator that’s what we help you do; is to see the infinite possibility burning bright, so bright that it helps move you through that fear.
Please see your infinite possibility and move through those fears. Don’t just keep telling yourself the same story. There’s one thing that’s true. You either make excuses or you make things happen. I’d like to leave you with that little rule. You either make excuses or you make things happen.
We’ll see you next time for another Hot Tip Tuesday. If this has been helpful please like the video. If you know someone who could use this piece of advice please share this video. Of course feel free to ask a question, make a comment below. We’d love to keep this conversation going. Here at the Auspicious Arts Incubator it’s all about you more than survive. It’s helping you thrive. If you want to thrive you need to subscribe because that infinite possibility exists. You can see it. You can feel it. See you later.
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