Redesigning My Success Metrics As An Artist in the Age of AI
- heartinhandatelier
- Apr 24
- 4 min read
Inspired by the talk I gave to the Arts Management undergraduates at LASALLE recently,
I shared something that matters deeply to me as an artist these days:
Staying Human in the Age of AI.
This is something I’ve been thinking a lot about in this season of disruption. As AI gets better at speed, support, and simulation, our work as humans is to deepen into what is still profoundly human.
Not just in art.
But in business, leadership, relationships, and how we choose to live.
For me, the essence of this comes back to my 3Cs guiding principles:
Curiosity.
Connection.
Compassion.
These 3Cs overflow into all areas of life. They serve as my north star when I’m lost -
which happens more often than I wish.
What stayed with me most, though, were the questions that came after: About burnout.
About entrepreneurship.
About how to measure success when your work is so human, relational, and hard to quantify.
That last one really stayed with me.
And it brought up a lot inside me - shame, imposter syndrome, guilt, and not feeling good enough.
Who am I to be giving this talk?
That was the loudest inner critic in the room.
I believe things often happen as a mirror - reflecting opportunities to release what no longer serves, so that we can create space to truly create what matters.
Redesigning success metrics as an artist After the talk, I decided to redesign my success metrics.
Not to abandon accountability - the usual KPIs still exist, but they are no longer the only marker of my growth.
But to stay grounded and work consistently towards my goals, while being honest about the difficult parts of being an artpreneur.
The hardest thing is to create a path when there isn’t one ahead of you to follow.
How do you know you’re going in the right direction?
When you don’t have the usual corporate markers - a stable salary, a promotion, a title - how do you know your work is working?
This is when my redesigned success metrics as an artist come into play:
✨ Lives impacted
✨ Returning clients
✨ A message that says, “this helped me”
✨ Testimonials and screenshots I keep in a folder called Celebrate My Wins
✨ Client referrals - the most powerful and flattering way of saying “your work helps”, the best kind of five-star review
Today reminded me that impact and success are not always obvious in the moment.
Sometimes it looks like:
simply showing up
sharing authentically
trusting the process
A reminder that life is a continuous process of unfolding, unwinding, learning, unlearning, and relearning.
What I’m unlearning now
Now that I’ve embarked on my two-year journey training to be a Breathwork Mastery RBM Practitioner (by The School of Breathwork), the first onsite retreat of twelve breathes has already begun to unravel deep levels of somatic charge that were stored in my body.
These formed my past conditionings - so deeply wired that I once saw them as absolute truths.
The soil of my life.
And clearly, the soil was not in the best condition.
Deep layers that are no longer nourishing are now surfacing in this journey of unfolding, making space for me to step into my light.
The core intention I hold for myself is simple:
To step into my light.
But not without first clearing what stands in the way.
These deeply charged materials, stored somatically, needed to feel safe enough to be released - instead of being held tightly as if they were truth.
And I realised:
Without making space to prune what no longer serves, I will never fully savour myself, my light, or my wins - no matter how hard I work or how “successful” I become.
These past conditionings quietly self-sabotage and diminish everything.
No wonder I’ve been in a constant tug-of-war with myself.
With new success metrics, with breathwork to support my nervous system, and with the help of AI to create a simple tracker to chart this growth from April ---
I am choosing a different way forward.
One that allows me to:
step into my light
savour myself fully
create space for my new truth
trust that this journey can be filled with both depth and joy
A question for you
If this resonated with you, I’d love to hear:
What does success look like for you right now?
If this piece resonated with you, and you feel like you’re in a season of redefining what success looks like...
I hold a 1–1 Heart-led Art Experience where we slow down, reconnect inward, and create from that space.
You can explore it here, if it feels aligned 🤍
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