I’m listening to how shifts in the economy are changing our attitudes toward making art and making a living. Let’s get perspective. Whether you learn toward making art or making money, I want to challenge you with potent reframes.
Here’s to the creative heroes – the people you admire and who reflect the best in you back.
The people who risk their comfort to make part of the world a little better.
The people who will not be hushed, squashed, or swept aside in service of their creative medicine.
The people who still work hard every day because they find value in real work and in the soul of craft.
Maybe we hold back because we fear we’ll be taken from or that we’ll run out of ideas.
The funny thing is this: When you create something, the very process of creating creates more ideas. When you see that something you created makes a difference to someone, you wake up driven to create more. When you solve one person’s problem, you feel fueled to discover other solutions.
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What if our perceived lack of freedom has less to do with our “online 24/7” times?
What if our experience of freedom has everything to do with how we regard our time, direct our mind, and guide our actions each day and week strategically or not, artfully or not?
What if the Artfully Scheduled Life, when shaped artfully and strategically, could actually lead to more fulfillment and a different kind of freedom?
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