So after our collaboration chat and critique my friend has pivoted his project slightly. This isn’t the first time he’s had a few projects o the go and often these never get off the mark, sometimes they have issues and genuinely don’t work, or have issues, they don’t catch on with the customer, or in case of YouTube projects the viewer, but often these are non-starters due to procrastination or lack of enthusiasm So this is something we may have mentioned before, you side-hustle will succeed better if you have a passion for it, if its an existing hobby or something you’re always dreamed of or love doing, be it…

So my friend and I have had another video update and shared some more ideas. He is currently ‘pivoting’ as they call it, he has about 3 or 4 project ideas on the go but suffers from plancrastination as we have named it, making lots and lots of plans, but never executing them, or running into small issues and then bringing the project to a complete standstill. He, as many of us do, also suffers from the ‘imposter syndrome’ where you think you’re not good enough to create art, or products and that someone else’s are always better and yours are not up to scratch This is something a few…

So I was introduced to the local shop owner by a friend at work and this helped me enormously, not only in getting into a commercial shop and selling my pictures but all in my confidence. After you get a few sales under your belt you get a buzz from it, having people not only appreciate your work but also actually paying cash for it – its a real buzz and confidence builder. When the shop changed hands and the new owner wasn’t interested in selling local artists work I was disheartened and had nowhere to sell locally. Fortunately within a few months another shop had opened in the town…