The Marvels of Giclee Printing And Its Reflection On Our Have To's and Want To's

I am pleasantly stunned by the immediate and great response to the article I posted recently on the Marvels for Giclee Printing For Artists. Should this appeal to you to try to have something you have painted copied in this way, that would be a bonus for me.But what I hope sincerely would be a bonus for you, were the realisation to form in you, that you can make an activity akin to this an unqualified "Want To" for yourself.

I hope you won't take me too literally. Perhaps you would like instead to write, to cook or dance, take up a sport - the choice of what we can do is endless. It matters not what you take up as an interest. What is key, is your "wanting to" do it, for your own satisfaction. It's solely for your pleasure and your sense of achievement which is key. There need be no "Have to" about it, at all!

Life today for so many of us is a long succession of "Have To's" or at least "Ought To's". If that is not actually the reality of our lives, it can still be our perception and put us under more pressure.

However doing something that is our own; doing it at our own pace; doing it because we want to get better at it, these are not self-indulgent and selfish actions or motives. This a very important way to sustain a sense of Life Balance.

Of course, it goes without saying that to take up something manically, with total and utter missionary zeal at the expense of all other commitments would not be good idea.

But finding the times in the week when one can learn a new skill is a great way to relax and restore belief in ones creative powers. That is a great feeling. And it provides an object lesson to those around us that having a more balanced lifestyle is important and is achievable.

And there is one hidden secret lesson in all this. A tutorial in simplified psychology, if you will! Show yourself how easily and quickly you learn the tricks of the new activity of entirely your choosing, and it will show you, first, how powerfully the mind can respond to your deep desire to do something.

That's all still very different to learning a "Have To"! But with your new chosen skill learned or at a stage where it is well on the way to towards being acquired, then you will have the stark proof of the high worth of this recommendation:- Faced with any new "Have To" or "Ought To", look for the value to you in it, look for the value to those you love and those you care about and respect.

If they would get great satisfaction out of it, then look to share in their pleasure.

The more of that value you find and can cherish, the more you will find powerful parallels with the things you have chosen to achieve. The more you do that, the quicker you will dilute that "have to" feeling. Doing that will in turn open the way to achieving the once "have to" goal and being able to draw great satisfaction from it as an adopted choice rather than a imposition.

Have some fun! And be canny too in finding advantages to things apparently foisted on you!