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Breaking Serial Entrepreneurial Lessons of Failure
A serial entrepreneur is “an entrepreneur who continuously comes up with new ideas and starts new businesses. As opposed to a typical entrepreneur, who will often come up with an idea, start the company, and then see it through and play an important role in the day to day functioning of the new company, a serial entrepreneur will often come…
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The Head Game: 6 Ways to Break the What Ifs to do Life’s Work
by Atim Annette Oton Most people wonder why I seem to move ahead and succeed in what I plan or intend. My simple response is that my head game is extremely focused and inline with my life, goals and objectives, and I am on a mission to fulfill my dream. Additionally, I think positively and actually…
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Enjoying the Creative Process: A Lifetime Process
by Atim Annette Oton Several of my last postings have focused on the perils of artists and designers;so this week, I begin exploring the process of creativity that blossoms in the hands of success. My good friend Patricia would say that New York’s sun affected my mood this morning so, alas, the positive mode. Last…
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The Artist’s and Designer’s Cover-up: Fronting, Stuck, Hiding and Running Away
by Atim Annette Oton My last 13 years of working with artists and designers have revealed some deep and critical issues about how they handle themselves in crisis or make critical decisions. What it shows are four destructive paths that form the basis of self sabotage and result in failure, so when I began to…
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Change and Reinvention: The Art of Navigating your Art or Design Career
by Atim Annette Oton Change is one of the hardest places to get to or to do as an artist or designer, I know. Since graduating from architecture school in 1991, I have been strategic about making change and reinventing myself and career. The 1991 recession made me realize that it would be 10 times harder to get a…
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Succeeding as an Artist and Designer: Breaking through Failure
by Atim Annette Oton For the last 13 years, I have spent time counselling artists and designers about moving the careers to the next level. A good number of them have been emerging and established, but they have common threads when it comes to failure. Carolyn Edlund wrote the best list on how to fail as…
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Developing a Strategic plan as an Artist or Designer
You finally graduated or you just celebrate a decade in the field. Now what? It’s time to sit and plan. Yes, Plan. It’s not a scary option. It’s just a way to have a roadmap. After all, you don’t drive around aimlessly. Right? In 1999, after 8 years from undergrad and 5 from grad school,…
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Fear: artist’s and designer’s paralysis
When I was an Associate Chair of Product Design at Parsons from 2000 to 2006, it often amazed me how many students I would talk with about fear and give them this simple comment: Take a risk, life is too short. Mark Twain said “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things…
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The Connection of Life’s Calling/Work and Personal Mission
by Atim Annette Oton One of the first series of exercises I give when I counsel artists and designers is about the essence of who they are. I speak to them about how their work is not only connected to their self but the state of who they were when they dreamed of what they…
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Artists and Designers are in Mid Life Crisis
by Atim Annette Oton Michael J Fox aptly warns,“However well you plan out your life, whatever courses you take, whatever degrees you get, your life is really going to get most interesting when it goes off the rails.” I remember when I actually had a mid-life crisis. I had just graduated from college, returned from…
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