Fail to plan, plan to fail!
The Vision and Planning Hat includes resources that help you create a vision and a plan and incorporate them into your day-to-day life in ways that lead you to success.
They say, “Fail to Plan; Plan to Fail!” but this is the most under-served hat of them all. Make sure you take the time to create a vision, create a plan and then implement that plan!
- 5-Year Plan: Got Goals? Get a Plan Why would you go on this journey - your life's journey - without a plan? In this hands-on session, we'll work through the 5 steps to a 5-Year Plan. You'll find that creating your life's Plan isn't so hard or complicated after all! And you will walk away with a real-world plan for your goals and the tools to get you into action.
- Create and Maintain Your Team Are you sick of doing it all alone, but the idea of delegating to someone else overwhelms or confuses you? Do you have people working for/with you – agents, managers, assistants, web designers, etc. – but you’re unsure how to work with them? Or even worse, you feel like you’re working for them, not the other way around? Creating and managing teams takes a particular skill set.
- Creation of a Successful Year At the end of every year, usually between Christmas and New Years, I take a few hours to powerfully envision and create my new year with confidence and intention. In this class I will walk you through my process. I've found this process clears the slate and allows me to step powerfully into the New Year.
- FranklinCovey FranklinCovey is the global leader in effectiveness training, productivity tools, and assessment services for organizations, teams, and individuals. They offer some of the best productivity tools for time management on paper or computer.
- Goals and Success In my practice I come across a lot of artists with big dreams. Whether it's a Grammy Award Winning music career, winning an Oscar or getting a show at MOMA, we dream of a level of success, recognition and income for our creative efforts. It's human nature to dream of success, however you define it. Where a lot of artists (and other people) go wrong in their pursuit of those dreams, they never make the transition from dream/fantasy to vision/goals.
- Goals That Get Results Goal setting is a skill critical to creating success in any area of your life. But expressing what you want in your life in a goal that really works can be a complex and challenging process.
- How to Create a Values-Based Career What does that mean, really? We talk a lot about values, family values, good values – whatever. But do you really know what your values are – consciously? And how exactly do they affect your career choices and path? Your values are the basis of your self-esteem, self-confidence and how you experience the world. What could be more important?
- How to Write the Dreaded Business Plan "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." Benjamin Franklin We've all heard this quote, and yet, we struggle and resist against writing a business plan. For most artists and creatives, there's the myth that the plan will crimp your creativity...
- S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Road Map to Success So you’ve set some goals. So now, how do you take those juicy goals from inspiring concept to real world success? In this class Debra lays out the 7-step “S.P.E.C.I.A.L.” Road Map to Success.
- The ABC's of Building a Business Team That Wins Great champions in sports, business and even families have one thing in common. It's a legitimate secret weapon. It is something that lies deep in the genetic code of winning organizations. It appears when pressure is high, when the stakes are critical and when everything is on the line. They know how to work as a team.
- The Magic of Thinking Big I recommend this book with one caveat. I've seen clients mistake fantasy for goals. Setting goals to make $10,000/month from their music in 3 months when they're currently barely pulling in $50 a week from their music. Yes - it is key to think big. And it's also important to make a plan with incremental steps to reach the big picture.
- The One Page Business Plan for the Creative Entrepreneur by James T. Horan, Jr. I met Jim Horan when he came to speak to the Entrepreneur and Small Business Academy Meetup. I very much enjoyed his whole approach to this most daunting of subjects. I often recommend this book ...
- Transitioning to Full-time With Your Art/Music Business Whether you're working a day job in the corporate world or teaching within your craft to sustain yourself, many artists and musicians dream someday they will earn enough to go full-time with their art. And just as many have given up on that dream, because it seems out of reach. Or because they tried to go full-time but ended up having to return to the day job, because they just weren't earning enough to sustain themselves and their family. I've worked with many private clients in different lines of work to make that leap from part-time to full-time in their businesses. And I've found that the process for success through this transition is similar no matter what business you're in.
- Working Smarter, Not Harder In February, we did a call for the Artists Marketing & Business Academy called, “Create Systems – Work Smarter, Not Harder” to begin to address one of the key mistakes artists make in their business. The essence of this mistake is to think of yo...
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