 How are you going to succeed as an artist in 2023? With plenty of doom and gloom being broadcast all around you, how are you going to focus on your goals and what are you going to be doing differently in order to make sure that you achieve them? In this video, I'm going to share three vital areas that you must focus on in order to achieve the success that I know you're looking for. Well, hello and welcome or welcome back to my channel. My name is Sophie and I help artists just like you to set up market and grow a highly successful business doing what you love. And if learning more tips and tricks is exactly what you could look for right now, then you're in the right place. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel, hit the bell to get notified every time I post a new video. Let's talk about the three vital areas that you must focus on if you want to succeed as an artist, especially in 2023. Number one, your strategic plan. What am I talking about here? Yes, I'm talking about the artist's business plan. I talk about it a lot on this channel. Make sure to check out this video as well, because this is the seven steps to putting together your artist's business plan. And I talk about it a lot, why? Because it's absolutely vital if you want to build a business from your art. Here are three reasons why you want to be having a business plan. Number one, to make 100% sure that the thing that you think you want to do is actually going to work out, and it's viable, and it's actually going to make you money. Because here's the thing, we all have these dreams of the type of business we'd like to build, but until you crunch the numbers, until you do the research, until you fill out the plan, you don't actually know if it's going to be viable as a business. It might be a great idea, it might be a fabulous hobby, but it's not necessarily a business. So that's your number one big reason why you want to have a plan, because by the time you reach the end of it, you'll have worked out if what you've decided is viable, and if it isn't, you'll have worked out a way likely to make a change so that you can find a way to make it viable. Number two of those three big reasons why you want to have your artist's business plan, and that is of course to work out your ideal target audience, where to find them, and how to put the right offer in front of them at the right time, so that you can easily make those sales. I think one of the biggest mistakes here is the artists are frightened to niche down, they're frightened to work out who their ideal audience are, and so they try to market everybody. Now I don't know about you, but I don't have the time to market to everybody, I certainly don't have the budget to market to everybody, and so therefore determining who we are going to work with makes your job a lot easier, and that is a big part of why you want to build your artist's business plan. And number three, to decide the ideal strategy for growth. Listen, it's really easy to put together a simple business, and you can end up going round and round and round doing the same sort of things, getting some sort of result, maybe quite an average, you go from year to year kind of going round and round and round. Is there anyone watching here who's maybe been in business for three, four, five years and actually just going round on the house to will, and you haven't actually grown? So the third most important reason why you want to have a business plan is so that you can plan for growth. How is year two going to be different from year one? How is year three going to be different from year two? All right, if you've been in business or you've been selling your art or your art services for a few years, you should have grown. And if you haven't grown, that's because you haven't got a business plan. So don't forget to check out that video, there's also a free checklist, a free business planning checklist as well, which I'll link below this video. As well, just to really help you to make sure that you get this plan done. At time of shooting, I'm just about to run a five day free business planning challenge. So if you happen to be watching at point when this video is coming out, have a big look for the link below this video where you can join that free challenge and you can get a bit of a kickstart into that business plan. Now if you're watching at a later date, I'm probably going to do it again. So make sure you've got the details and just make sure that you're on my mailing list, which you can do that really easily by grabbing any of my freebies. And then you can look out for that challenge because we will be doing it again. Number two, really big area that you need to focus on, that's your mindset, a winning mindset. You've likely heard me say before that 80% of your success comes down to your beliefs, your thoughts, how you see the world, your mindset essentially. Now here's some quick things that you can do in order to take yourself from negative to positive mindset. So here's some top tips. I hope you've got a pen and paper. Go ahead and write some of these down. Here are those top tips. Number one, start your day with a powerful morning routine. That could be exercise, nutrition, hydration, however you want to start your day. Number two, listen to motivational podcasts or videos. Read or listen to audiobooks around powerful topics that are going to help you develop and grow. Number four, meditate daily. Get used to quietening your mind and getting yourself in a really focused and positive state. Number five, surround yourself by like-minded people. That is one of the most easy things you can do and likely doesn't cost you very much. Find other artists who are looking to do the same thing and hang out with them regularly. Okay, let's get back to those three vital areas that we need to focus on in order to get success in 2023. The third one is developing your creative practice. Well, sometimes you can get so wrapped up and focused in on all the business stuff and don't get me wrong. You absolutely do need to do that business stuff. But sometimes you can end up just creating on a bit of autopilot. Now, a lot of people are not going to want to admit to doing that, but I know I've done it myself. And the end of the road for me was actually burnout some years later. So it's not great route anyway. But developing your creative practice is really, really important, not just for your own growth, but the growth and development, of course, of your art. And of course, if you want to build that successful business, then you want to make sure that your product or service is improving, right? You don't want someone to buy the same thing that you offered last year. You want to make sure that you've upgraded that, that there is something better for them to buy in the following and subsequent years. Now, whether that's 10 minutes a day, 15 minutes a day, 30 minutes a day, or carving out some time to just do some creative play, warm up if you like. If you were a dancer, you would be doing a certain number of exercises to warm your body up. If you're an athlete, you would be doing stretches and exercises to warm your body up. Now, why is it as artists, people think they can just dive straight into the studio, straight onto the work of art, and magically transform it. It doesn't always work like that. Just like anything else, you can improve your art by simply practicing. So if you're looking at what you're creating and you're thinking, it's not as good as I'd like it to be, then just keep practicing. And developing your creative practice involves work away from the main thing that you do for a living. That means the warm-up exercises, the drawing, the observation, the mucking around, the play, the trying different colors. Those are the things you can do as a painter. And if you're not a painter and you do something else, then work out what that can be in your field as well and build your own powerful creative practice. I promise you, it's going to pay off. So here's a quick recap on those three vital areas that you want to focus on in order to get success in 2023. Number one, you wanna have your strategic plan. Number two, you wanna create that winning mindset. And number three, you want to develop your creative practice. Now, if you've loved this video and you're thinking, gosh, Sophie, the mindset stuff sounds like it's really the area I need to focus on, then I've got just the next video for you. All right, I've got a video entitled 10 Confidence Tips for Artists. It's definitely the next place that you wanna look if you haven't watched that video before. That's gonna help you build up self-belief and your self-worth. And it's absolutely where you wanna focus at the end of one year and the beginning of the next. All right, aligning your mindset for success. So check out that video that's right here on the screen right now. Go ahead and watch that. And don't forget to leave me a comment below this one. Let me know what it is you're gonna be focusing on out of these three areas, as I love to hear from you. I love to hear your progress. And of course, love being part of your artistic journey. Thank you so much for watching and we'll see you on the next one.