Actionable Goals to Achieve Your Dream
Lesson 2 from: FAST CLASS: Become a Working ArtistLisa Congdon
Actionable Goals to Achieve Your Dream
Lesson 2 from: FAST CLASS: Become a Working ArtistLisa Congdon
Lessons
Embracing Yourself as an Artist
08:13 2Actionable Goals to Achieve Your Dream
06:09 3Setting Intermediate Goals
04:15 4Creating Actionable Tasks
05:29 5Develop Your Business's Personality
02:51 6Your Messaging & Communication - Part 1
01:11 7Your Messaging & Communication - Part 2
03:41 8Successfully Promote Your Work
09:21Lesson Info
Actionable Goals to Achieve Your Dream
what did it feel like to dream big or to be able to write down your big goals? Well, let me ask first, for how many of you, at least in the studio audience. Was that the first time you've ever done that? Written them down? All right. We got we had like 3, 3 or four people awesome. The rest of you that you're actually already doing that because you'd be surprised how many people don't actually, they might have their big goals and dreams in their head, but they haven't actually written them down. And there's a lot of power in writing things down. And one of the reasons that that's important is this idea of getting what's in your head on paper somehow is an action step. And so I would really encourage you to use the worksheets or use your own paper in this next segment and start writing things down. Um actually start writing some things down because it's a really important step. And then by the end you'll have the beginnings of a to do list for tomorrow. The next thing we're gonna do actu...
ally, before we dive into intermediate goals is talk about core values. All right, let me let me show you this little graphic that it's a big graphic. Um we're going to keep referring back to this in almost every segment. So we already talked about the center, which is what I can do this, like the core belief, I got this, I can do this, I can reach my goals right outside of that is this area called research goal setting and planning all super important. So, for example, in the next segment, I'm calling that a research segment, we're gonna talk about the world of fine art. So if you don't know a whole lot, this might, you know a whole lot about that world. This might be an interesting place for you to listen in and learn and do research about and ask questions about that world. All right. So this is the chart that you may use though you should not feel confined by anything that I'm giving you. You are all visual people. And if this flow chart does not make sense to you or you'd like to draw it in some other way, feel free. The idea here is that we are actually working from one giant goal on your vision map and we're going to then um break that down into some intermediate goals and then into actionable tasks. But before we do that, one of the things I talk about an art inc is really making sure that whatever you sign up to do in your life is aligned with your core values and by core values. In this case, I mean, values around making and selling your work, for example, let's say that you want to become a licensing artist or a commercial artist who licenses her illustrations or her artwork to go on products, but it's important to you that you never sell your work for to a company who doesn't um use green materials in making their products or that you want to make sure you're only licensing to companies who make really high quality stuff um that you would be proud to buy yourself. That's an example of a core value. So in other words, another way of thinking about this is how am I not going to sell out? Right? And that's going to look different for everybody. What are the things that are important to you in making and selling your work? Because I'm sure we can all think of things that we want to make sure we never do right. The things that are going to make us feel uncomfortable give us panic attacks, make us feel embarrassed to say to show our work online. We want to avoid those things we want to make the experience of making and selling our work feel good and feel aligned with what's important to us and what what we enjoy and what's meaningful to us. So those are our core values. You probably have other core values around family and those might filter in a little bit. Um but right now we're really talking about core values around making and selling your work so important because you're more likely to execute your work in a way that is satisfying and feel good, feels good. If you are really conscious of and articulate what your core values are around making and selling work, you'll be able to make decisions with more clarity and purpose. So in segment eight tomorrow, we're gonna be talking about what happens when you get to the point where you have a lot of opportunity coming your way, You have to make hard decisions sometimes about what the what opportunities to say yes to and what opportunities to say no to. And if you're really clear on your core values, it's gonna make it easier to make decisions because if an opportunity comes your way and it's not aligned, then you might consider it. It's not a good opportunity. You'll be more able to more clearly communicate with clients and customers so often. Um Natalie, right? Natalie might even say in her Bio on her website that, like part of her mission is to give 5% of everything she makes to charity. She might even say, you know which charities she's donated to and why that's important to her. She's going to be able to clearly communicate that value and that value is going to come through in what she does. And actually, that's part of her story which we're going to talk about in segment for like, what's your story? What are you about beyond your art? What are you about
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