Local blogger and business/marketing guru Maria Elena Duron has a great post on Making a List of NOT To Dos and I thought it was a really great idea.

Her blog is about creating buzz for businesses through new media and old business combined. This is a great resource for artists as our business models really need tweaking these days. We are in one of the oldest forms of business/service and on the cusp of new, exciting, and scary times with the economy and the Internet headed into an unknown realm.

There are people screaming to “hunker down” and others touting this as a time of opportunity. I view it as the latter.

Here are some of my “Not To Dos”.

• Do not hunker down.  Now is the time for action
• Do not waste time.  Everyday is an opportunity to grow as an artist.
• Do not go another day without photographing something beautiful.
• Do not spend more than an hour wasting time on TV/Movies/Video Games (Unless it’s a Dallas Stars hockey game) in any given day. This valuable time could be used to photograph/edit photos/blog/social network.

So what are you putting on your “not to do” list for this week?