0.10 Making the time

Making the time for the creation of your art is the most challenging aspect of your career. Or so it has beenfor me. Time can escape us as we struggle with social, business and personal time management. We can get busy with tasks or allowingothers to usurp our time leaving us to see our own art time dwindle. We have to prioritize our time so we can maximize the timein the goals for our art.

You have now solidly built the foundation for your art and where you want to take it. You know the steps you willneed to take and how you will get there. Now comes the fun time.

You will need to look at each step, and plan out a weekly/daily schedule that will allow you to practice. Youmight find that by waking up 45-30 minutes earlier will give you a 1/2 hour to donate more time to a project/step. Or by planning yournight time responsibilities better you can squeeze in more time for your art. Again this choice and how much time you donate for timemanagement is your choice. Your goals and time management should mesh with your ultimate dreams. What I am talking about here is abalance with a realistic time management schedule for the goals you have set.

Personally I am an artist with many different types of art. I am a photographer, graphic artist, writer andspoken word performer. As well I serve on several art committees that work within our local community to improve the artopportunities for artists. As well my personal spiritual development is something I choose to include in my schedule. Whatworks for me is determining what I want to accomplish each quarter and work towards that with my art goals.

While this works for me and my plans, another artist might want to see a more rapid completion for their dreams.Their time management would be different than mine or any other artist. We are not in competition here to finish before anotherartist. Rather this is meant to find the balance we need to see our personal art flourish as we choose. But we do need to make time forthis. If we don’t, then our dreams dangle and fade away. Most of our unhappiness in life is due to our unrealized dreams. Thisworkbook and the steps outlined are here so we can realize our true happiness with our art expressions.

Plan well, as this is your art!

Question: How many hours of practice a week will you need for your dream to be realized? How will you dedicateyourself to do this?

Question: What types of projects do you want to do?

Question: How much time do you want to commit to new work?

Question: List a weekly schedule that will include the hours you devote to editing, practicing, submittingworks for review, researching, and promoting.