If you’ve ever wondered what it feels like to try to make a living selling stick figure art, well, it feels sort of like this: daunting and difficult. So I needed to give myself a pep talk, and here it is, in stick figure form.

Here’s what’s going on in the one-man huddle:

“Anyone can grab the low-hanging fruit. And anyone can buy a ladder to get the fruit that’s slightly higher than that. But not just anyone carries around a cape in their back pocket just waiting for an occasion like this to show up. Well, here you are. Go get it.”