by HIYA CREATIVE | Dec 17, 2023 | Creative Business
There’s one big lesson I’ve learned in over two decades in the creative industry. When you’re being your authentic self, you have no competition. You’ll have collaborators and fans and contemporaries, but you’re not competing to be something that someone...
by HIYA CREATIVE | Nov 28, 2023 | Art, Maybe
Sometimes, inspiration for art comes from situations that don’t seem that ‘inspiring’. You know that feeling when the world suddenly gets dark and anxiety-inducing, and you can’t get a handle on why you’re feeling so bad. Your partner keeps tiptoeing around you asking...
by HIYA CREATIVE | Nov 27, 2023 | Art, Mouthy
If you’ve been a self-employed creative for any amount of time, you would have heard this advice over and over again: ‘In order to connect with your target audience, you must niche down’. The idea being that the more narrow your niche is, the clearer your messaging...
by HIYA CREATIVE | Nov 23, 2023 | Art, Mouthy, Personal Growth
I’ll be the first to admit it, I’ve always had a bit of a perfectionist problem. At the heart of it, being a perfectionist stems from not feeling safe, so you do everything you can to diminish risk in order to not get hurt. When you break perfectionism down to those...
by HIYA CREATIVE | Nov 21, 2023 | Art, Mouthy, Personal Growth
We always think of life as linear. We start somewhere, do some things, hope to be on an upward trajectory, and end up somewhere where we’ll be content to have been on this trip. But how life works out on a personal level is nothing remotely linear. We go around...
by HIYA CREATIVE | Nov 20, 2023 | Creative Business
I’ve been a creative for 20+ years and if I was just starting out as a creator, this is what I’d do differently. 1. I’d trust my own instincts more. I wish I had the self-assurance of today-me when I was starting out. Who knows what might have happened with the...
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