Angela Treat Lyon

100 Days 100 Paintings

In the beginning of July (2010) I embarked upon a project that has literally changed my habits, relationships, use of time, and confidence in myself as a painter.

DECISION
Right now, one of the worst tragedies resulting from our habit of manufacturing throwaway products is the mess on the beaches and in the oceans created by millions and millions of discarded plastic drinking water bottles.

I decided I was ticked off about how I have to practically climb over all the plastic trash when I go for walks on my favorite beach. I mulled and stewed about what I, a single little entity on the face of the planet, could do to help alleviate the problem and even help create a solution.

I finally decided to commit to painting 100 paintings in 100 days (business days), and put them up for sale for $100 each to raise awareness and money for the cleanup of the planetary mess.

And since I really don’t like working small, I chose to do 9″ x 12″ paintings, instead of the usual 4″ x 6″ most of the people I’ve seen doing 100-day projects like this do. Turns out it’s perfect, because if it got any smaller I’d tear my hair out.

Yes, $100 is about one-tenth of what I’d normally get for a painting this size, but it’s also enormously freeing – I feel like I can play with the work more than if it was trying to be some precious expensive MasterPiece.

SOUL STUFF

I had to ask myself in the very beginning, before I set up a single thing: is this venture something I’d hate doing by the 25th painting? Would it seem more like a job than fun? Would I be able to do what I committed to do? How did my Deep Self, my Souul, feel about it?

I had to laugh, because…

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I’m constantly looking for ways to cut down on marketing time so I can get back to the easel.

I just found a cool site called fiverr.com where there are hundreds of people who say they ‘do anything for 5 bucks.’

I checked them out & liked what I saw, and hired someone to post my painting project page to their huge list 5 times a day for 4 weeks – all for 5 bucks.

I was surprised, then, when I was given access to a control panel – now I can access it and change the posts as often as I like, and the system tweets automatically, saving me time and energy in my marketing.

And today, not even 24 hours later, I’ve gotten almost 100 new clicks that I probably wouldn’t have gotten before.

Here’s where to find fiverr (yes, two rs): http://fiverr.com – and the company I’m using for tweets is:
http://bit.ly/message-broadcaster.

To choose someone to do massive tweeting for you, you do have to be careful – make sure you find out the nature of their list – you don’t want your tweets going to some country where they won’t care about your work or buy your products or services.

And make sure you read the feedback from customers – there was one I saw I liked, but the feedback stank. So I used someone whose feedback and work sounded good. Watch for poor English, as well.

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If you are a business owner who has spiritual values that you want to integrate into your marketing, you’ll love this.

Listen in to this great shorty clip with CEO Shelagh Jones on her Spiritual Marketing Directory – attraction in action.

Shelagh also takes you through the Three Pillars you must build your business one for real success. Click on this link to go to the audio.

And here’s Spiritus: if you love working with other spiritually-minded people, here’s where to find and check them out!

Thank you so much for sending me such nice comments about my crazy plan to paint 100 paintings in 100 days (http://bit.ly/100-100-100).

I’ll tell you more of what I’ve learned by doing this experiment in the next couple of days!

It’s been awesome, and 5 paintings have already sold out of 22 – cool! That’s 5 donations I’ve been able to make!

Oh – and I invite you to read the first three of the four articles I’m publishing about what I’m finding out in the process of creating this project – how to get the most of your own Creative Process – go here:
Part 1: http://bit.ly/creation-part-1
Part 2: http://bit.ly/creation-passion-pt-2
Part 3: http://bit.ly/creation-part-3

Musician Carole King was a regular on my radio in the 60s and 70s. I loved how powerful her voice was, how poignant and true-to-heart her lyrics.

Someone posted the following video on FB today, and I thought it was a great example to watch about not fooling around. Watch as she lovingly, softly announces who she’s bringing onstage to help her, and then how she doesn’t dither around when she starts the song – one huge, loud chord and her belt-em-out voice.

Such a great role model for self-belief and powerful starts! She carried all the way through, too, with variations in mood and tone. I love it!

Here’s something I saw in a recent blog comment: “I still submit to shows but not as many. I have been lucky to be invited to shows but I am not expecting the shows to do more than exhibit my work.”

Well, why on earth not?

Expect! Expect! Expect! How can you vibrate,”"I’m a happy, successful, appreciated artist (coach, CEO, entrepreneur)” AND “ohhh, I won’t make any sales at this show (speaking engagement, art fair, book signing, coaching session)”?

You can not! Your main vibration’s frequency might be 50,000 Hz, but if some part of you is dragging its feet and vibrating at 9,000, your 50K will be sabotaged.

Tap on it! Expect to make sales! You did NOT go into business to be a failure, feel bad, lose confidence or go broke!

Not familiar with tapping? Go here: EFTinEveryHome.com. Learn how to tap and quit it already with the eternal why-I-can’t-do-its!

As I told you last week, I’ve been painting up a storm for my Plastic Drinking Water Boottle Cleanup project.

When I first started it up, I promised myself I’d paint a painting every day (M-F!) for 100 days.

Well, I broke my mold! (You can see the painting that did it above.) I took TWO days to do one painting! So, no Monday painting, and today’s painting is $200, not just 100.

I got a note asking me why the paintings are so cheap, because normally they’d be going for 900 and up for the size they are (9″ x 12″). Today’s break-the-mold painting is Rosey Lips, here: http://100Days100Paintings.com

Easy – I want them to

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Recently I’ve been in cahoots with someone who has a special way of marketing books. Two ways, actually, that I’m taking advantage of, myself.

In both ways, there is a distinct possiblity of selling books not one by one, but literally by the truckload. (This is not Brendan Burchard’s model.)

If you are an author – or have ideas for a book – and want to know if your book would be appropriate for these two markets, email me at Lyon (at) AngelaTreatLyon.com and put “FREEbie Author Teleclass, please” in the subject line.

You might think right now, “Ooooh my book (idea) would sell like crazy!” It may not.

Then again, it might be a total, amazing, incredible, record-breaking, awesome millions-selling winner!

I’ll let you in on some of the most important things you need to know in order to fulfill these 2 markets’ needs so you don’t get your lights wiped out by rejections.

Let me know if you want to come on a 60-minute call with live Q & As. If enough people respond, I’ll put the call together for you!