If you want to become successful as an artist and in your career, you need to have the basic discipline mastered first and foremost. You can never achieve something you have not trained yourself to become. Self-discipline is as important as having art lessons. If you do the following list, you will do just fine and will make you a better artist than what you are the year before.

1. You have to do it. No one can fight your battles for you but only yourself. If you would not do it, who else will? No one can be as able as you are to achieve what you want than your own self.

2. Define your goal clearly. You need to know where you are really going so that you will clearly know how to get there. It poses as your great challenge to be the kind of man you are supposed to be by clearly setting your goals straight and head on to there.

3. Set your priorities and put yourself on top of that list. You have to remember always that everything will be nothing without. A masterpiece can't become a masterpiece if you would not be around to make it.

4. You need to practice better time management. It will never get you anywhere if you would not manage your time wisely. A great artist can be made even greater when he knows what to do at exactly the right time. You should be able to pull this off given the chance you have of practicing time management.

5. You need to do things at your own pace and at your own time. Nobody can make you do something if you have not yet established your inspiration and if you have not set your heart to do something yet. This will never do otherwise everything will only be a mess because the essence of art is to be able to place your heart, all your heart, on it.

6. Always remember that you can never do everything by yourself. You also need the help of others. Remember that no man is an island. That is what an old saying goes. You need other's opinions and you need to listen to them to improve any lacking aspects you might have.

7. Learn how to say no if you really don't want to do something and never regret it. This is part of your learning process and the sooner you are able to master this art of saying no, the sooner it will be for you to achieve about any task you want.

8. Always practice a healthy lifestyle. You should eat right, get enough rest and exercise. You are an artist but you are human first and foremost. Never compromise health in exchange of your success or you will only be up to nothing. How can you ever fight your own battle if you are not even healthy to begin with?

9. Have a positive outlook on life always. You can achieve whatever you want only if you think you really can. That is the power of every human mind. That should be mastered too.

10. Take time for yourself. Always make sure that you are having breaks because this is essential for every human life. You should take things light to heart and keep it there because once you do this everything will just fall into place.

Whether you are an artist or not, it is important to have self-discipline because if you know this human basic, it won't be long before you achieve anything you want. Along with patience and careful planning, you will just be doing fine.