Research shows that creating habits and starting your day on the right side of the bed sets the tone for your day. Days add up to weeks, which add up to months, which adds up to a year. A YEAR! This may seem like a DUH moment, but once I started researching the effects of habits and routines and how those could directly affect the outcome of my achievements, I quickly realized that a few minutes here and a few minutes there doing some small, not so hard things, could really add up to accomplishing my dreams. I realized that we spend so much time doing things that don’t serve us.

Have you ever thought about what your relationship with money looks like? Money is an inanimate thing and it is not inherently good or evil. Inanimate objects can’t talk to us about our day or give us advice on any problems we have, yet we can sometimes expect money to solve all of our problems. Don’t get me wrong, we all need money to live our lives, but somehow we’ve become a slave to money: working for it day in and day out and not really understanding, on a deep soul level, why we’re doing it. At a minimum, we do it to put food on the table, a roof over our family’s head and to have other important things we need. Throw in a few luxuries every now and then (home decor junkie over here!), and you’ve got yourself some pretty good reasons why you’ve got to make that cash. But have you ever stopped and wondered, “but WHY?”

Do you think you’re an artist? Whether you’re an entrepreneur, employee, student or stay-at-home parent, you are an artist and creator. We are all the creators of our lives and not a day goes by without us creating something to make our lives happen. An artist has to create work. An entrepreneur has to create the structure of their organization. An employee is a part of creating ways to move the company’s mission forward. A student creates their future with their work in the classroom. A stay-at-home parent is typically the creator of how their household runs. Ultimately, we’re all artists of our lives and creating is something we all do each and every day.