As discussed in my last blog post, my annual goals for 2019 are almost all achieved. I’ve allowed myself some time to celebrate and now it’s time to set some more. Now don’t get me wrong, it’s tempting not to. To pat myself on the back and let myself relax and go with the flow until 2020. I know that it would be a waste of the momentum I’ve built this year though.
Seriously, it’s been awesome!
Surpassing my goals has taught me to have more confidence in what I do too. I thought that the goals were achievable but tough. Of course I worked hard for them, but I got them all in half a year. Some I had completed within a month or two and some I have just smashed. They were big jumps when I wrote them but now my business is in a different place. What’s more, I’m prepared to make some goals that are really ambitious.
There’s no shame in not reaching a goal as long as you try.
I’m not the type of guy to beat myself up if I don’t win at something, I beat myself up for being too scared to try though, so here goes:
-Secure a mural commission using my characters and style
-be approached for a large scale commission without applying
-trial a pop up shop
-run an arts event (market, workshop, drawing class)
-get agency representation
And none of it is based on followers or likes. Not to say that it’s not important, just to say that it can give you tunnel vision with your art if you’re not too careful.
Something of a scattergun approach?
Maybe. They are all quite different and about quite different avenues. The list doesn’t focus on retail or commissions, it looks at both. It even looks at events which is something of the elephant in the room. Events is my skillset. It’s where my fundraising career has refined and culminated. To run arts events just makes sense. Thing is, I run A LOT of events. Do I want to run events in my art life too? I guess what I am saying is that if I don’t achieve that goal, that’s cool with me too.
Plus, if I don’t achieve it, honestly it will be because I won’t have pursued it. The only thing standing between me and running and arts events is and always will be just me. I don’t think you guys will blame me either. You know that when I’m not organising a huge christmas fair that I’m somewhere organising a music festival or an outdoor cinema. I think you guys won’t mind if I put my feet up on organising extra curricular events just for a little while.
I wonder what will have passed and where my business will be next time I write a review post?