Author: Janice Tanton

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Fear and Acceptance – What It’s Like To Give A TEDx talk

Back in June, I gave a talk at TEDxCalgary entitled "The Language of the Creator". I felt very lucky to have the opportunity to share the story around The Community Fusion Project, language of the arts and relationships. My greatest intent around doing the talk was that it would have some impact on folks and inspired them to think differently about the arts, cross-cultural relationships, learning disabilities and humanity. In retrospect, a bit of a tall order I saddled myself with.

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Janice Tanton’s “5 Daily Gratitudes – Facebook, Twitter or Blog Challenge”

I'm issuing a challenge for you to join me on Facebook, Twitter or the Full Time Human Being blog. Can you write 5 things you're grateful for every day? Collaboratively, we can count all the little miracles in our lives. Sharing ...is caring.

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“X” Marks The Habit – 365 Days of Painting

Yesterday, a very cool email came out from The Writer's Store with a newsletter tip on how Jerry Seinfeld worked his craft. He had a very simple system to mark off X's on a 365 day, one-pager calendar. The mantra is... "Don't Break The String". Thinking about that simple system yesterday pushed me back to the easel. Instead of fiddle-farting away at admin work in the office, I thought...heck, I need to get my red X on that sheet. Without that reminder, I'm not sure that I would have gotten off the computer and into the paints, but I did!

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Artists – Do You Teach Others How To Treat You?

For too long, artists, musicians, writers, dancers....ART folk...have been holding this Dirty Little Secret and "giving it up" in the name of promotion & exposure. Newbies and even experienced artists all buy into the Hollywood dream that "someone" might discover them, or a patron will emerge from the wings. I pick and choose my times to donate and I have a policy in my art business that guides me and enables me to say "no" to every request that comes through the door that does not fit within the policy guidelines. Do you?

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10 Stupid Ways & 10 Meaningful Ways To Measure Success As An Artist

YOU are the only one who can answer what success means for you. I'd challenge you to think about that and design your own yearly success measurement...and then celebrate the heck out of it! There are some pretty stupid measurements some artists use to measure their success. I offer up my metric system...

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