Clear Goals for 2010

I love being creative.  It's fun making stuff...art or whatever.  And I love figuring out how to do things myself.  For example, I like to stretch my own canvas and I learned how to silk screen this weekend.  More on that in another blog post.  

Where I get myself into trouble though that I research everything and I over analyze.  Oh...and I blog surf WAY too much.  Shouldn't an artist be obsessed with making art and tend to struggle with the business side of things?  Not me.  For whatever reason I spend too much time looking at other's websites.  I research business models.  I look at how other artists are marketing.  And the net result is that I don't create enough.


So here are my goals for the coming year.  Notice that I'm not calling them resolutions.  Resolutions tend not to be measurable.  Goals are more action oriented.  In no particular order:


ONE: Be creative every day.  Creative is defined as doing something artistic or otherwise meaningful that only I can do.   
TWO: Be more organized in my home, art and work life.  In my home and office life that means getting rid of things I don't use.  There is way too much clutter in my life and it gets in the way of doing things I like to do.
THREE: Manage my time intentionally. I l.o.v.e. reading other artist's blogs and Etsy shops. And that's okay...I get great artistic energy from looking around the creative world.  But what I will begin to do is limit myself to  four 15 minute "blog blocks" per day.  The rest of my time will be focusing on the tasks that I need to be working on.
FOUR: Build a business that I love.  This means that I need to stop treating my art as a hobby and build it as a business.  I can [and must] still enjoy it as my hobby but I want to build it into a business way of life.  It is time to stop regretting that I didn't pursue an art career when I was young.  


These four items are only a starting point...goals.  The actions required to meet these goals will also be written and acted upon.  


It is going to be a good year.


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