{"id":136180,"date":"2024-09-06T08:08:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T15:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.castingnetworks.com\/?post_type=news&p=136180"},"modified":"2025-01-30T09:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T17:23:18","slug":"3-mindset-exercises-to-shift-out-of-the-starving-artist-mentality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.castingnetworks.com\/news\/3-mindset-exercises-to-shift-out-of-the-starving-artist-mentality\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Mindset Exercises to Shift Out of the Starving Artist Mentality"},"content":{"rendered":"

The starving artist narrative will have you believing that in order to be a successful artist, you have to sacrifice your financial well-being.<\/p>\n

But financial stability is actually what allows creativity to thrive, so artists do themselves a disservice by believing that this is what an artistic career requires.<\/p>\n

Making more money, saving more money and managing more money all require you to shift out of the starving artist mentality (because starving artists inherently do not have \u201cmore\u201d to play with).<\/p>\n

I am going to give you three mindset exercises you can do today to start to shift you into a more abundant and exciting relationship with your money so that you can make more, save more and manage more.<\/p>\n

Upper Limit Test<\/h3>\n

To start, let\u2019s see where you have a mental limit around money.<\/p>\n

Write down the HIGHEST amount you could fathom making in one year<\/b>. Next, jot down the highest amount you can imagine sitting in your bank accounts at the end of the month<\/b> (checking account, savings account and retirement\/investment account).<\/p>\n

Do these numbers surprise you? What feelings come up when you write these down? Can these numbers give you the dream lifestyle you desire?<\/p>\n

Break the income piece down even further. If your number was $100,000, divide that by 12. You get $8,333 a month. Divide that into four weeks. That\u2019s $2,083 a week. Divide that by seven days, and you\u2019ve got $297 a day.<\/p>\n

Breaking numbers down like this can make them feel more attainable.<\/b> Now you can go make a list of every idea you can come up with to make $297 in a single day. If you already make $6,000 a month, make a list of ideas on how you could bring in an extra $2,333 a month on top of it (aka $583 a week).<\/p>\n

Now go back to the initial numbers you wrote down. Add a zero to each of those numbers.
\nWhat happened in your brain? Why do those numbers feel scarier? Or did those numbers not scare you at all?<\/p>\n

These exercises are helping you to figure out where your upper limit is mentally with money. <\/p>\n

Your upper limit will determine your creativity around how to increase your income, dampen your ability to have bigger dreams and goals for your life, and keep you managing your money like someone who doesn\u2019t have a lot of it.<\/p>\n

Write Your Cashed Up Manifesto<\/h3>\n

The opposite of a Starving Artist is a Cashed Up Creative. A Cashed Up Creative has access to money, spends in alignment with their values, doesn\u2019t rely on one single course of income and feels full autonomy over their money and artistic life.<\/p>\n

In order to break out of the starving artist narrative running around in your head, you need to give yourself a different soundtrack to play.<\/p>\n

You are going to write your own Cashed Up Manifesto.<\/b><\/p>\n

A manifesto is \u201ca public declaration of policy and aims.\u201d I want you to write a \u201cdeclaration of policy and aims\u201d in relation to your finances and creative career. This will be a paragraph of where you are headed, what you believe and what you are grounding yourself into. You will read this to yourself every single morning.<\/p>\n

Here are two examples of what this could look like:<\/p>\n