How successful do you have to become before you finally get to stop chasing the next opportunity?

Artists can reach something they once dreamed about — a role, publication, exhibition, qualification, sale, audience or major opportunity — and discover that the finish line has quietly moved again.

In this episode, we’ll talk about:

• why creative success can keep creating new goalposts
• the difference between professional ambition and needing achievement to prove you have “made it”
• why artists who earn their living from their work cannot simply stop marketing, pitching or selling
• one question to help you pursue more without erasing what you have already achieved

Lara also shares why producing a full professional musical at Riverside Studios in London once felt like it should mark an arrival — and why, years later, even a book launch and TEDx can awaken the same hope that perhaps the next achievement will finally make everything feel settled.

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Show notes and links:

https://larabiancapilcher.com/2026/09/27/feel-successful-as-an-artist/