{"id":1747,"date":"2008-05-21T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T14:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/linfa\/create\/2008\/05\/21\/on_motivation\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T14:24:10","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T14:24:10","slug":"on_motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/2008\/05\/21\/on_motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"On motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Figure Painting workshop I just took got me thinking about motivation &#8211; how long it took me to decide myself to start painting and how I can be motivated to continue now that I started.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few resources I came across.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poopinmymouth.com\/tutorial\/money_mouth.htm\" class=\"broken_link\">Put your money where your mouth is<\/a> by Ben Mathis &#8211; a good reminder of how easy it is to slow yourself down and think about doing things to improve your situation instead of actually doing something about it.<\/p>\n<p>Along the same line, this video of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=beM99eFb76c\">Digital Painting<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaginismstudios.com\/\">Bobby Chiu<\/a> is a good reminder that motivation starts within yourself. His other videos are great tutorials as well as thoughtful ramblings about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=bobby+chiu&amp;search=Search\">creativity, motivation, and dreams<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Figure Painting workshop I just took got me thinking about motivation &#8211; how long it took me to decide myself to start painting and how I can be motivated to continue now that I started. Here are a few resources I came across. Put your money where your mouth is by Ben Mathis &#8211; a good reminder of how&hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/2008\/05\/21\/on_motivation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[67,72],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-cg-concept","tag-create","xfolkentry","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/chiu.jpg?fit=300%2C225","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8frwa-sb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}