To perform regularly at a children's hospital and a retirement/assisted living home. I think that the people who NEED magic in their lives aren't able to make it to a show, so I'll bring one to them. There's two children's hospitals within an hour from where I live. Depending on if I can do a good job and can actually pull it off, I'd like to bounce between both.
Performing magic for seniors is something I'd like to do, but it's a recent idea, and I'm still researching what I could do.
Beyond that, I'd like to work in the Houdini magic shop in Disneyland, but a lot can happen in 20 years.
I'd like to continue using magic to beat my anxiety and depression. Maybe use that to help others suffering with mental illness to escape this reality..even just for a while.
Yeah wealthy would be great also...lol
Those are both really honorable goals. Great thinking guys! I hope you are both successful in achieving them.
It's very hard for me to comment on long term goals since my mind is always flip flopping and adapting to my current predicaments so I'll just work on the short term list that I will hopefully achieve in the next five years or so.
My top priority right now is pulling off a successful stage show in May. I'm expected to pull off an hour to an hour and a half of entertainment and it's really stressful for me since I have never done something on this scale before but I'm throwing everything I got into it. I really like how the story wraps up together in the end and I really like the flow of the transitions. I just have so many minor little knick knacks that could make or break the show (okay not break but I don't want anything to go wrong).
After that my goal is to hopefully start winning some competitions. I haven't entered any live competitions yet so it will be interesting to see how those vary from Theory11's SNC. I have one effect that I've been working on and having other pro magicians give feedback on (okay it was Simon Black but that's better than nothing!). I feel like I have the method pretty well developed to where I like it and every single little move is justified but I need a lot of work on the performance of it and making it entertaining. I'm completely rewriting the performance of it and I hope to have it done soon to my liking so I can hopefully get more feedback later. It's certainly not a magician fooler (at least not the magical part of it) but it's fantastic in terms of practicality since it can be performed anywhere with all borrowed objects making it 100% impromptu.
Speaking of which, another goal that is more of a pipe dream is to have an effect published on either Penguin, Murphy's, or Theory11. I have a lot of respect for both companies and I would love to have their name behind one of my creations. I would especially love it Theory11 published one of my creations. I'm not saying that because I'm on their forums but Theory11 is known for consistently putting out great and practical releases. They have the best self rising card, the best coin "bend", best torn and restored corner, etc.
Lastly, after my stage show in May I hope to really start capitalizing on magic. I plan on busking several weekends this summer and I'll definitely report on my experience. I'm hoping that the promo reel we make from the stage show will help convince corporate events to hire me for their entertainment events. I've taken up balloon art and am hoping I can get hired to do kids entertainment events as well as balloon animals. My presentation definitely needs to be adjusted before I can start working with the youth though. I want to use all this capital as well as hopefully get some sponsors for an even bigger stage illusion show that I've been crafting in my head for a while. It will be super expensive to do but I've slowly been trying to chip away at it.
