Thoughts and habits not conducive to the work:

• Believing you’re not good enough.
• Feeling you don’t have the energy it takes.
• Mistaking adopted rules for absolute truths.
• Not wanting to do the work (laziness).
• Not taking the work to its highest expression (settling).
• Having goals so ambitious that you can’t begin.
• Thinking you can only do your best work in certain conditions.
• Requiring specific tools or equipment to do the work.
• Abandoning a project as soon as it gets difficult.
• Feeling like you need permission to start or move forward.
• Letting a perceived need for funding, equipment, or support get in the way.
• Having too many ideas and not knowing where to start.
• Never finishing projects.
• Blaming circumstances or other people for interfering with your process.
• Romanticizing negative behaviors or addictions.
• Believing a certain mood or state is necessary to do your best work.
• Prioritizing other activities and responsibilities over your commitment to making art.
• Distractibility and procrastination.
• Impatience.
• Thinking anything that’s out of your control is in your way.