1. Figure out what you're about. What do you like to do? What is your medium, your subject matter, your style?
2. Explore. Getting to #1 requires flexibility, openness, a willingness to explore.
3. Focus. Spend less time on success and more on Art. The more you work, the better the art, the more likely things are going to happen. And figure out what you really want.
4. Spend time in a creative mecca.
5. Be generous. Give away your work and make more.
6. There are no small parts. Publish a 'zine, start a blog etc. Whatever will get your work out in the world. (how scary is this?!)
7. Meet likeminded folks and be actively involved with them.
8. Never complain, never explain. Be yourself and be glad of it.
9. Above all, do what you love and love what you do. You need to blaze new paths, your own path. Don't try to figure out what you should do to be successful but how to successfully express what makes you YOU! To be authentic, to express yourself.
