ART INSIGHTS Creating Wealth as a Successful Artist - John Dahlsen

I recommend planning your year at a highlevel, setting dates for various goals. On amicro level, I have been very successful bytelling myself that am about to spend thenext three hours making art, for example,and that I will feel rewarded for it. If I’m onmy way to a gallery to speak with clients,I spend the commute getting really clearabout my immediate next steps.In other words, don’t start any activitywithout setting intentions for that segmentof time. This sounds simple, but feelsmiraculous. I’ve worked through muchdread in business situations by thinkingabout events as fragments of time andcommitting to certain actions and resultswithin those fragments.Take two hours every weekend to just think.I personally like to use this time to mapout my thought projections and visionsfor long-term projects. Some people findvisualization to be an incredibly powerfultool for building confidence and reachinggoals. Spend time imagining yourself at69