The Three Steps to Success in Art and Life - Nicholas Wilton - Ep 162

Art2Life

Nicholas Wilton

Self-improvement, Education, Visual Arts, Arts

4.8 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Starting small and quiet in the creative field is something many of us experience, but advancing requires a process—and sometimes, the guidance of a coach. Rediscovering the art in my life has been a profound journey, and I’m sharing my story to help you achieve your creative goals, too.

My three-step approach for creative goals encompasses Vision, Process, and Sharing:

Vision: Be clear about your desires and goals. Understand your limiting beliefs and set up a community or coaching for support.
Process: Enjoy the creative journey. Maintain consistency and develop a system that works for you, allowing for sustained progress over time.
Sharing: Overcome the fear of sharing your work and ideas. Sharing is vital for growth and gaining confidence as an artist.

Engaging with my platform through comments and reviews helps spread valuable content. Overcoming limiting beliefs, seeking mentorship, and facilitating personal growth are essential to achieving artistic aspirations.

Listen if you are interested in...

My evolution as a full-time fine artist (0:00)
Evaluating galleries in Santa Fe to seek representation (06:52)
Partnering with a supportive gallery owner (16:13)
The three key steps to achieving your goals (17:04)
Setting your vision and the goals you have (18:03)
Why should you define your process? (20:18)
Sharing creates opportunities and builds resilience (26:49)
Create a system for seizing opportunities efficiently (29:06)

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0:00.0	There's nothing wrong with being small and quiet and behind the scenes.
0:04.8	That's where we start.
0:06.2	It's just normal.
0:07.7	But in order to advance, we have to increase things and we have to get coaching and we have to get a process going.
0:18.2	Right. Like I know the things that we make have a wild card to it.
0:23.1	Like, sometimes it works out.
0:24.4	Sometimes it doesn't work out.
0:25.8	And the painting looked really good.
0:27.3	And now it's all the that.
0:29.3	But the process is something that you can wire,
0:32.7	that you can just have the system,
0:35.9	the system you use to make things. You really want to figure that out.
0:42.5	Hey, welcome back to the Arts Live podcast. Today I want to talk about the steps towards desires, right?
0:50.9	We all have these goals. We all have these ideas, what we want to create and how we want to get there.
0:56.9	And I want to share with you what I've learned about the order of these steps.
1:03.7	Because this is an order of steps that if you do them in order, the likelihood for success, the likelihood that you're going to
1:12.2	arrive where you want is much higher.
1:20.5	Welcome to Art to Light, a podcast for the creatively curious.
1:24.8	My name is Nicholas Wilton, and each week I'll help you rediscover not just the art
1:29.2	of your life, but the art in your life. Join me as we explore that perfect blue at twilight,
1:35.0	the wild frontiers of art making and the extraordinary joy of finding your ways you go.
1:45.1	I learned this a hard way.
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