This idea of coaches and their importance is found more in sports and business than art or jewelry. It’s not until we break down what a coach does and what their role really is. In the business and sports realm, its often said that “professionals, hire coaches and hobbyists or dabblers, do not!” Having a coach shows that you are vested in what you are doing. There is someone else on your team keeping you accountable and motivated even when you’re not! They can see the road ahead and act as your GPS. They help you achieve your goals! Most coaches like to win! As a result, with a coach on your team you’re more likely you to succeed, because if you win, they win! And if you lose… well you have work to do! We should all look at our lives and see where we can use some help to be the best we can be! If your serious about something… SERIOUSLY GET A COACH!

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Mark Farrell “The Jeweler”

Too often as people and more in particular artists, tend to cling to our ideas and choices. These things often become our processes, techniques, and skills. What about the other things we hold on to and shouldn’t? you know those things that we KNOW we’re wrong and we stick with it for a damagingly long time! We need to embrace this idea of “Course Correction”. Realizing you’re on a bad path and making a conscious decision to go in a different direction is not WEAKNESS, It’s INTELLIGENCE! We ALL need to get over this false idea and stigma! Once we do you are free to navigate the situations in our lives better based upon the information at hand.

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Mark Farrell “The Jeweler”

Being self-employed is a tricky thing. We all hit that point where we realize we need to honor our commitments no matter what that means in our lives. How many of us when we first started our businesses thought, “finally I can do things my way!”? Me too, and it’s great! There is a point though where we ALL realize that we need to get things finished and out the door! Sometimes we bite off more than we can chew and other times, we simply underestimate the time needed or that firm deadline that waits for no one! This episode is one of those experiences. It happens to all of us… The goal is to learn from these experiences and make changes to avoid them in the future.

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Mark Farrell “The Jeweler”

This is the second part of a longer recorded rant from 12/11/2020. In this episode I talk about the implementation of this idea of “Lifestyle Design”. I first heard of this from Tim Farris’s book the 4-hour work week. Tim talks about it in the sense of travel, though in this episode I’m looking at it holistically. I talk about how we as artist can use it in a multitude of ways to improve our lives. The main underlying idea is that we all waste so much time. If we streamline our time-wasting activities, we can utilize that time in different capacities. As artists this found time could be used to create new work, research a new project, spend time with our family, travel, or do pretty much anything else you could possibly think of. It’s worth noting, that since this was recorded, I have put this idea into action in my life. I’m currently sitting in quarantine in Bangkok Thailand. This shit works if you believe it can and you take the steps to make the things you want to happen.

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Mark Farrell “The Jeweler”

This ides of "Lifestyle Design" is something I learned from Tim Farris’s book the 4-hour work week. I lay out what it is and how we as artist can use it to our benefit. In this first part of a longer recorded rant I talk about how we as a society (at least the US) think incorrectly about our goals. I lay out some of the misconceptions of achieving the things that you want, your goals. I shed light on this idea, that we as people have to put off the things that we really want our “desires”, because we need to pay our dues first. I hope we can all see how backwards, incorrect and damaging this line of thinking actually is.

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Mark Farrell “The Jeweler”

The Artist Personality Type Pt. 6

This mini-series “The Artist Personality Type” were originally, two long recordings. I’ve broken them up for you into multiple episodes that focus on one specific topic in this epiphany.

Part 6:

There are many aspects to mental health. I am not a doctor. I can only speak about my experiences in the things I’ve seen other people in my life go through. In this episode we are talking about the other people in our lives that are giving their often-unsolicited opinions on our lives and the way we as artists choose to live them. I want to first point out that these people often offer up their opinions because they care about us. The issue comes when they don’t understand where we are coming from because they are NOT an Artist Personality Type. It’s important to remember these people are trying to help us and unknowingly may be discouraging us or destroying our momentum. This is tricky to put into words though here is my attempt. I hope this helps explain and give more of us hope and feel less broken and less of an outsider!

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Mark Farrell “The Jeweler”

The Artist Personality Type Pt5

This mini-series “The Artist Personality Type” were originally, two long recordings. I’ve broken them up for you into multiple episodes that focus on one specific topic in this epiphany.

Part 5:

There are many aspects to mental health. I am not a doctor. I can only speak about my experiences in the things I’ve seen other people in my life go through. In this episode the discussion comes to this idea of losing time. As Artists we all find our way to the “zone” this is where I have found I “Lose” the most time. The big difference between those in “The Artist Personality Type” and the traditional bipolar diagnosis is that when we come to, we can see the fruits of our labor in the work we have been making. If there is a positive tangible result of the time, was it ever lost to begin with? If focusing is losing time, and regular time passing is tracking time… I’ll take focusing. Normal time passage typically yields little to show for itself. It’s often filled with wandering thoughts or poor multitasking. I hope this helps explain and give more of us hope and feel less broken and less of an outsider!

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Mark Farrell “The Jeweler”

The Artist Personality Type Pt4

This mini-series “The Artist Personality Type” were originally, two long recordings. I’ve broken them up for you into multiple episodes that focus on one specific topic in this epiphany.

Part 4:

There are many aspects to mental health. I am not a doctor. I can only speak about my experiences in the things I’ve seen other people in my life go through. In this episode I begin to offer a different explanation for some common mental health issues that artist have. In this episode I start diving into and offering different reasons and opinions on why some of us may have really high highs (manic) and really low lows (depression) I hope this helps explain and give more of us hope and feel less broken and less of an outsider! You are not alone! Together we can help each other!

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Mark Farrell “The Jeweler”

This mini-series “The Artist Personality Type” were originally, two long recordings. I’ve broken them up for you into multiple episodes that focus on one specific topic in this epiphany.

Part 3:

There are so many aspects to a business. Too often as artists we think that the business end of things is not or cannot be artistic. This just isn’t true we are lucky that we get to make things which means we get to manifest the thoughts that we have in our heads into real objects. It’s time to look at the business end of your business through an artist size and solve it the way an artist does. Listen to this episode and you’ll see what I mean.

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Mark Farrell “The Jeweler”

This mini-series “The Artist Personality Type” were originally, two long recordings. I’ve broken them up for you into multiple episodes that focus on one specific topic in this epiphany.

Part 2:

As Artist WE ALL need to work with our hands to stay sane! This is something I learned fairly early on in my adult life. If I’m not working with my hands and I have no outlet for my thoughts, they can take over my head and start to negatively affect me. In these periods of my life this has affect my mood, habits, thought, feelings, and even decision making. Listen to this episode and see if you also NEED to make things into reality to stay sane.

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Mark Farrell “The Jeweler”