How Could This Happen? The Improbable Business Plan

Since I am an artist and a writer, I have a lot of creative friends. We love what we do and the trick is to be the happy artist and pay the bills. We talk often about things artistic and our careers. Read that as talking about improving as an artist and paying the bills.Strategies abound and fortunately, artists have a lot of options for success. First, do good work. The artist decides what is to be created, the medium and size. Then there are options on how to be seen and much more. It’s a lot to consider.

In this story, an artist used Manifesting 123 to boost sales and simplify his career management. He doesn’t want to be identified here, so we’ll call him Charles.

Each day the artist did the Manifesting 123 steps and his 7 grateful things. Charles has a number of future scenes in his Manifesting “Movie.”

His most important scene is that he has perfect health. In his future, he simply observes that he is very healthy and has been for some time. He is also very mindful to say that he is very grateful after each of his future scenes.

Second on his priority is that he does his souls’ purpose, whatever that may be. So in his future scene he is relaxing comfortably somewhere and observes that he has been doing his souls’ work for sometime. He feels fulfilled and grateful.

All the other scenes in his movie can be put into the category of living comfortably and happily. Some of those scenes involve Charles’ successful career as an artist and he visualizes that in a way that doesn’t create limits.

In his future, Charles is happy as an artist, healthy, living comfortably, and abundantly, so of course those bills are paid. He was careful not to specify how this would come about in the future, only that it all did.

Here’s where it gets interesting. Charles typically does about three to four medium to large works a month with a sprinkling of smaller works throughout the year. At the end of the year, he will have produced 40 – 70 works. In 2012 and going forward, he committed to doing five much larger works each year in the hopes of greater artistic and financial success. That’s a pretty good strategy for improvement in both areas.

2013 was an interesting year for Charles. He seemed to be constantly drawn into doing what appeared to be his soul’s work, a very high priority, but it was taking considerable time from his art career. He had observed that his being in service apparently was a protected time. If he lost studio time, somehow he could make it up by being more efficient or other means. If Charles was in the studio and interrupted by someone needing help, that call to service, then he would drop everything and make himself available.

He was fighting to get to the studio throughout the year, but the calls for him to be of service were taking all of his time. He kept his souls’ work as a priority at the expense of his art career and there was a LOT of service in 2012 for Charles.

At the end of the year, Charles discovered he had done nine new works and sold only three of that group. That was an exceptionally dismal year for art production…the worst ever. Even as a beginner, he did far more art works than that.

So how did he pay the bills? His Manifesting came through. Charles had a good amount of inventory in galleries around the country from years before and in 2013 it was steadily selling. At the end of the summer the earlier works began to sell even more.

Charles was very concerned about his lack of new works to show, but when he tallied up his sales last December, he was very surprised. Total sales showed that was his best year as an artist!

It just doesn’t seem possible to have precious little coming out of the ‘factory door’ for an entire year and expect success, but that is exactly what happened!

Charles is scratching his head and he is VERY grateful! He said this “really works” and he has made even better plans for his future.

Are you kidding me?