How to Make Your Creative Practice the Best It Can Be

What’s success, and how can you make your creative process "better"?

Reaching and maintaining "success" takes continual work. One part is honestly assessing how to make what you're doing even better. If you're an artist, that means figuring out how to make your creative practice better as well as how you run your business.

Money isn't the only way to define success. So, here on the blog, I’ve been writing about how to define business success, particularly in ways that don’t involve money.

One way I measure success as a coach is this--am I helping people? This leads to the next logical question: if I were better in some area, could I help more of them?

In the art world, “better” is hard to define, but difficult doesn’t mean impossible. Plus, there are lots of places in your creative practice where you could look at being better, outside of the art that you’re making or doing now.

Could you be better at cultivating relationships with people, or improve your technical skill, or make buying from you easier?

Activating the Judge

Personally, looking at ways I can improve my coaching and writing scares me. It’s prime territory for my inner Judge to jump in and tell me everything I’m doing needs to change.

But once I calm my Judge and simply look at what I’m doing with a neutral eye, I can see things that could be improved.

Want to try this yourself?

Pretend that a new, hotshot creative is coming in to take over your practice next week. Then pretend you’re that person. Look around at your creative practice through the eyes of this hotshot. How could you make your creative practice better? What would you change? Then pick something and start there. (Thanks to Daniel Pink for this creative use of parts work).

If you want help looking at how you could make your creative practice better, let’s chat.

Your work matters.

If you need some unbiased help to make your creative practice better

If you look around you and see wild, creative possibility, I can help you make that into inspired, profitable reality. In fact, Where wild creative possibility becomes inspired, profitable reality is my new tag line. If this is something you have been yearning for, but didn’t know where to start, book a 15 minute chat with me and we’ll figure out what’s next.