Understanding Your Goals

Module by: Mark Maxey

Summary: AS with any artist, until you fully embrace your goals, you will not achieve success. Knowing what your personal goals are helps you move towards living your dream as an artist.

Many artists feel they can’t voice their true dreams. Not talking about ego, but the fear artists have in saying what they really want to do. In the book The Artist Way, Julia Cameron helps that inner voice become more vocal. For years we have denied or pushed away the desire to create. As artists, our inner artist is the voice of our craft.

Figure 1: Forgiven Promises performing live 2 months after completing this course.

Finding Your Way

In this part of the workbook you will need to go within and write what you desire. This is your opportunity to reach for the stars. Speak from your heart. Say what you really desire to happen with your art. No one is looking over your shoulder to say you can’t. Don’t hesitate to speak openly. This is your art, this is your opportunity. Say what you really feel you want to achieve.

Looking back on my life, many times I felt ashamed to voice my dreams for my art, afraid that I would be ridiculed. I felt I had to justify my feelings to my peers. My breakthrough was when I finally saw my art as mine. I did not have to justify it. I only had to embrace it and move towards my dream.

Figure 2: Moving towards my own dream allowed me to see it happen

Performing In Front of 2000 people

Once I did I found opportunities opening up before me to facilitate this dream coming true. The universal truth is when you call out for help, someone or something will appear to give you this answer. You will find this to be true when you move past your fear and move toward actualization of your dreams.

So now is your time to dream, to reach for the stars, to give voice to your inner artist. On the next few pages write your true desires for your art. This will help you see exactly what it is you want to do. For a road map to be effective, you must know the destination you truly desire.

Figure 3: You can live your dreams!

Living The Dream

Question: What achievements do you seek with your art/talent/musicianship?

Question: Why do you think these achievements are so important to you?

Question: Who could be a mentor to you in realizing these achievements?

Question: How do you plan to stay disciplined to achieve this?

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Last edited by Mark Maxey on Jan 25, 2006 1:51 pm US/Central.