January 30, 2012 by Lisa Call
Can’t Do It All As an artist, there are simply too many options available for you to pursue them all: festivals, traditional galleries, non-profit galleries, selling from your website, etsy, coop galleries, juried shows, etc. The list goes on and on. Trying to do everything dilutes your focus and scatters your attention. Feeling frazzled and [...]
January 9, 2012 by Lisa Call
Planning for 2012 In January of 2011 I spent a couple of weeks planning for the upcoming year. I had very detailed goals and shared them with my blog readers. I did have a very successful year, but I feel I over planned. Something simpler would have served my purposes and gotten me back to [...]
December 12, 2010 by Lisa Call
A System Ask an artist how they feel about packaging and shipping their artwork for exhibits and sales. Chances are the response won’t be a positive one. This is one part of being an artist that most of us are not very fond of. It’s time consuming and it’s expensive. This past year I’ve implemented [...]
August 11, 2010 by Lisa Call
Completion This article is the 4th in a series related to completion: 1. The Magic of Completion 2. A Quest for Completion – introducing a plan on how to get there 3. Creating an Incomplete Project List – it was harder than expected 4. More on the Incomplete Project List – categorizing, prioritizing and more [...]
August 2, 2010 by Lisa Call
Completion Quest In my last post, I wrote about my desire to wrap up some loose ends from the last few years. Things that drain my energy every time I think about them not being finished. It’s my quest for completion. This is my plan for tackling my incomplete projects 1. Create a list of [...]
April 11, 2010 by Lisa Call
Create Denver Workshop Yesterday I gave a workshop/talk at the Create Denver Expo on Time Management and the Internet. A black sink hole of time for many of us. Much of the talk centered around goals and systems as a way to structure our time on the internet. The rest of the talk was tips [...]
July 26, 2009 by Lisa Call
The Long To Do List I’m leaving for South African in a couple days and have a todo list a mile long of things I think I need to do before I go. I’ve found myself getting very little done on that list over the last week even though I had plenty of free time [...]
