Silence Red 6 24x24" oil/cold wax on panel ©2012 Janice Mason Steeves This is the time of the year that we should take stock isn't it? Look back and see what we've done this year. What we've accomplished. Are the art sales up? Or down? What are we doing right? Or wrong? More than this, I try to look back and see if my work has changed and grown. And if I have. I look back to see what I've learned and if it was what I thought I was going to learn. I always try to write New Year's Resolutions. Some years I create detailed sections like they tell you in the books on Success: Physical, Emotional, Spiritual, Artistic, Financial. I divide them down into bite-sized pieces that would be almost impossible not to accomplish. It takes a lot of time and thought. I carefully file this list in my pink filing cabinet. By the end of January, I can't remember which section I've filed it under and in...