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Ten Ways To Maximize Your Coaching Sessions

The best coaching session is one where the coach and the client work together to learn and grow through a creative block. Your coach has already stated her commitment to working with you, by giving you an appointment with her. What you give back to her, to the session and ultimately to yourself describes your full participation in the coaching process and eventual achievement of some of your artistic goals.

To help you with your part of this process I will discuss ten ways to maximize your coaching sessions:

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The Business of Your Art Business

Did you know that there are two major parts to your art business?
There’s the business of developing, creating and displaying your art and there’s the business of your art business.

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Let’s Talk About Play!

Sometimes I just want to play, rather than create. When I choose bead components for my jewelry. When I’m shopping, I often remember how much I like the color, shape, texture and design of the components and other parts of the piece I’m planning to make. Finally I remember how fun it is to experiment with all of these components until I find just the right combination and create a new piece.

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What Is The Cost of Creativity?

Working in a creative mode obviously costs time and effort. It also costs time to schedule work sessions, practice sessions and eventually display (or perform) creative work for customers, artists and others.

When I procrastinate and do not participate in my work sessions, I increase the cost of my time. I put myself in a position of creating more stress about missing a session, which distracts me from working on my creative work and meeting my goals. When I do return to a creativity session, I must work through any personal irritation I’m still carrying around about missing the last session(s) plus any anxiety or other feelings about working during the current creative session. When I procrastinate or run late, my schedule is easily thrown off. I also don’t complete as much as I had planned to do.

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