Discover more from Ten Minute Artist with Adam Ming

Strategies and steps to help you: ✍🏼Make art daily, Break into Children’s Publishing and keep going without burning out. ☕️ Background: Startup cofounder turned picture book illustrator. 📚 11 book deals in 2 years with top publishers.

Over 2,000 subscribers

Deadlines = Payday

A new way of thinking.

Adam Ming

Oct 17, 2021

Deadlines are normally dreaded.

But as Jerry Seinfield says, our brains are like little puppies that respond to treats.

So here’s how I plan to do it.

Build some capital.
Whenever I hit a deadline, I’ll pay myself imediately as a reward. (good puppy)

With a little planning and creativity, you can de-couple when clients pay you and when you pay yourself. Giving yourself that positive reinforcment everytime you hit a deadlines.

And you can pay yourself whenever you hit a client deadline, or a personal deadline.

PS: pay yourself doesn’t mean empty the bank, it means allocaating a portion from the ‘business account’ to your ‘personal account’.

I have 3 deadlines in the coming week. YAY!