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Steps To Your Success: Successful Minded Thinking By Kyle Peron
When I decided many years ago to really take my magic seriously and to really find the success I 
wanted for my wife and I, I was puzzled about many things. I wanted success, I dreamed about it and I even told myself what I would do if I ever became successful. I had all these great ideas and plans but I never did anything with it.
I also thought that to be successful I had to be the most technically savvy magician and the BEST magician in my area. I felt I had to be perfect in order to find the success I wanted for myself. I realized that this was not entirely true at all.
Now I know I am not the best magician out there nor do I feel I am the most technically skillful. But, I do know that to be successful I needed to provide for my client something a lot of other entertainers can’t or were not willing to deliver upon. Let me explain a bit more if I could.
Anything your audience carries away from your show that reminds them of you is a good thing (except for maybe bruises). Consider making some stamps of your likeness that you can stick on playing cards, business cards or even currency.
You can either buy actual stamps using an online company that’ll put your photo on one, or use a photo editing program and a printer to make your own that you can print on to sticky back sheets.
This is a booklet I wrote that goes through my approach to creative thinking. As the process is described several tricks are generated along the way.
It’s also a kind of scary look inside of my mind. Be warned.
Have you ever been asked to theme a show for a specific holiday or event? It can be a stressful task if you don’t approach it properly. Here are 4 super easy ways to theme your next family or kids show.
Shortly after its launch in 2005, YouTube quickly made its way into popular culture and became a modern institution like eBay, the iPod and TiVo. For magicians it soon became the easiest way to see other magicians and get an instant audience (for better or worse).
Excerpts from Illusionworks II: Conjuring, Concepts & Creativity
I dare you to be yourself. For there are already more than enough Copperfields and Burtons out there. I should know, I was both of them at one time or another.
The Mini Sharpie has a great future ahead of it in magic. Times have changed in the culture of magic; while the cliche still lives, of the magician wearing a top hat, I’ve never seen a post 1970’s magician wearing one (ok, David and Dania use one, but that’s just one!) Many of the classics of magic are going through the process of evolution, either dieing out or are adapting to the times.
Sometimes things don’t go as planned. If Murphy’s Law is true (it is) then he’s a good friend of mine. Call it a love/hate relationship. When performing you must take a Zen-like approach to problems that arise out of your control. Often times if you fight or ignore it…it will only make matters worse.