Art MBA: Use Your Mind to Grow & Fulfill Your Creative Career Aspirations

By Bridgette Mayer

In Volume 1: Mindset, business guru and author Bridgette Mayer, guides readers
through the critical process of nurturing, exercising, and appreciating the most
valuable and underutilized free tool we are all born with: the Mind. By developing an
awareness of one's own mindset and where it comes from, readers are given the
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Mayer Gallery LLC
• Release date: Jun 22, 2020
• ISBN: 9781734403749

Bridgette Mayer

BRIDGETTE MAYER is an accomplished art dealer who has run and operated her gallery on Washington Square in Philadelphia for 23 years. She is an art consultant, author, speaker, coach and mom. Mayer is the author of three books,Art MBA: Mindset, The Modern Artist's Way, and The Art Cure, and the founder of the online educational program Art MBA.She has been featured on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 and was recognized as a recommended Philadelphia arts destination in The New York Times Magazine.Bridgette has turned her passion for art and business into an opportunity to help artists around her find their own career success through her coaching, books, and programs. Her work has transformed hundreds of artists' lives: physically, financially, mentally, and career-wise. Her artist resources and programs can be found at www.bridgettemayer.com

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Today, you have the opportunity to transcend from a disempowered mindset of existence to an empowered reality of purpose-driven living. Today is a new day that has been handed to you for shaping. You have the tools, now get out there and create a masterpiece.

Steve Maraboli, The Power of One

Contents

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Introduction: An Invitation to Your Potential

PART 1: Mindset Fundamentals

Chapter 1: Mindset

The Snowball

Mindset Influences

Behavioral Patterns

Mindset Check:

Chapter 2: Evolving the Mind: A True Story

The Struggle Bus

Desperately Seeking Success Stories

Enter the Game Changers: Tony Robbins and Michael Gerber

What Are You Worth?

Mindset Check:

Chapter 3: The Scarcity Mindset

Financial Scarcity: The Reality

The Fear Factor

Rejection is a Reality

Analyze Your Game

Mindset Check:

Chapter 4: Awareness

Psychological Limitations

Solicit Input to Grow

Mindset Check:

PART 2: How to have an abundance mindset

Chapter 5: We Are What We Think

Positive Affirmations

Cultivate Gratitude

Chapter 6: Visualize and Manifest

Visualize Your Dream

Place Your Order

Chapter 7: Reverse Engineer Your Brain

Don’t Be a Pinball

The Business Side of Creating

Chapter 8: Think Outside the Box

Growth v Fixed Mindsets

Focus On What You Love

Get Out of Your Comfort Zone

Chapter 9: Avoid the Norm

Beware of the Herd

The Benefits of Independent Thinking

Conclusion:

Introduction:

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An Invitation to Your Potential

Welcome artists, creatives, and friends.

Art MBA® is an idea I’ve been chewing on for the last 20 years while exploring a diverse career in the art industry. During that time, through coaching and working with thousands of artists, I kept witnessing and hearing the same scenarios unfold for newcomers in the creative arts, across a full range of geographic, demographic, and financial landscapes. Though we are all unique creatives, we face similar challenges in the arts. However, the resources and the information about how to overcome those common challenges are sadly lacking, even with the entire Internet at our fingertips.

Our educational system and our society have yet to produce relevant, affordable information that teaches aspiring artists and creatives the business of the art world. I experienced this lack of resources firsthand when I was new on the scene and trying to figure out how to forge a career in the arts. As a young woman, fresh out of college, with a liberal arts degree in studio art burning a hole in my hand, I was woefully ill-prepared for the realities of what lay ahead. Despite four years at a prestigious college, I wasn’t educated on how to get a job, how to market myself, how to navigate pitifully low salaries, or how to present myself to decision makers.

Hence began a still ongoing quest to arm myself with guidance and inspiration from whatever sources were available. I sought to educate myself and, in the process, came to understand how hard it is—not just for me but for anyone entering the art world for the first time—to find practical and valuable information.

That’s what Art MBA® is here to do. I want