Doing what you love is not selfish or in any way inappropriate. Work should not eat your life away and make you miserable. And yet, many, many people buy this as the truth. Loving what you do, being happy with the job you have isn’t important. Making money is what matters. How come we believe this? Because it’s “the way it’s always been” and “the norm” and similar bullshit claims. Once upon a time, humankind
As a creative, the non-creative aspects of the business of writing can be overwhelming. I am passionate about my art. More than that, though, I have taken my art and turned it into my business. My brand is the writing I do on all the various levels where I get to do it. Though my first love is fiction, the nonfiction I write is also important to me. That’s why I blog regularly and write
Spending money in the interest of making money is never comfortable. I recently wrote about art and money, and my realization that I need to hire someone to do marketing because I am not very good at selling myself and my work. This, of course, causes a walk outside of my comfort zone. To increase my book sales, I need to hire someone to help with marketing. There are a lot of different options out
Learning not to be afraid of money and its relationship to your art. When you do a hobby, it is entirely for your own edification. You do the thing you do for fun, because it makes you feel good, and because it stirs creative juices and produces life-affirming endorphins and so on. There are almost as many options for hobbies as there are people in the world. Some are pretty general and obvious – such
I can’t do it all. But that just means I need to delegate. When it comes to my brand as an artist, I am a creator. I’m a writer, editor, photographer, intermediate website builder, and ideas person. When it comes to creating new ideas and building worlds, I am damned good at what I do. In writing about both my ongoing process and mindfulness, conscious reality creation, positivity, and the like – I have developed
I had no idea working from a plan could so drastically increase my productivity. For most of my life as a writer, I have been a pantser. My friend and fellow author Val Griswold-Ford introduced me to the notion of planners vs panters. Though I have defined this before, let me clarify – a pantser is someone who writes by the seat of their pants. They sit at the keyboard or in front of the
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I post here twice weekly about my work with Positivity, Mindfulness, and Conscious Reality Creation. I’ve been blogging every week, without fail, since the beginning of 2012.
Mondays – Positivity (and related ideas for making choices and decisions in life).
Wednesdays – Pathwalking (my philosophy for consciously choosing how to live your life mindfully, on your terms).