From The Blog Series… 365 Blogs To Finding Pinocchio A Home
I met a man last week at a speed dating event who had a very negative attitude towards the music industry and the creative industry overall. He said there were no great artists anymore, and that there was just no way to make money doing art. He was once, as I discovered listening to him talk a bit more, a man of passion when it came to writing and story telling. His passion must have been stomped from society’s pressures and maybe he felt he had to give up his vision job as a writer and take on a safer job that paid well. As we talked, he said how he was a writer and how he had been a news reporter as well for some time in his past. He went on to say how he knew how to write a story, a real story, coming from nothing more than a few simple facts, but those skills, could not pay the bills, and so he took a job on Wall Street working as a copy editor years ago. He then said how he hated the job, but it paid very well.
Now, while I am very familiar with how this man feels, that making money in the arts is a big challenge, especially right now, I also know there is room for each of us to persue our passion and find the nitch that can supply us with financial abundance. It all depends on what thought we choose to move forward with. As Mike Dooley says so clearly in “Leveraging the Universe”, “THOUGHTS BECOME THINGS”.
As I have been sitting on this conversation that I had with this very tall, dark, and yes, handsome gentleman last week, I am now ready to fully express what’s on my mind. So here it goes… Keep feeding the mind with negative and defeatest thoughts, and take a guess on what is going to surround you and your daily existence. It’s that simple. Feed your mind with loving, gentle, and clear visionary thoughts of what it is you are here for, and then take every action you can to allow your vision a real chance to come into fuition. One way or another, doors are going to open up. I just ask you this: Would you rather feed your ego and be right about the arts being dead creatively and finacially, getting to bash every person you come into contact with that brings up their passion, creating nothing more than a truly unhappy existence? Or, would you like the opportunity to go on, from this day forward, being happy, paying no mind at all to the dream stopper in you and begin to love the journey towards your true vision, finding the calm and humility in “the process” and knowing that it is indeed true, “THOUGHTS BECOME THINGS”.
So, if you say there is not enough, there probably won’t be. And if you say there’s no way to make money doing your writing, then great, you just made your wish come true. It is up to you to never give up. It is in one’s persistence that allows abundance a chance to flow in when it is good and ready. But, if you quit, well, then, it’s clear that you will not receive what you wanted, over and over again because you left the dream behind due to a false sense of security.
We create our own happiness, our own abundance, and yes, our own successes in so many ways, including financial success. But we have to be willing to fail, to fall, to keep persisting when everyone else says there is no possible way. Be exactly who you are and find the nitch from there. Don’t move towards popularity to find abundance. Look in between the cracks in the communities and then you will find the diamond inside your true purpose for being here.
I am glad I met the copy editor from Wall Street. He gave me something to think about. I wish him the best as he goes forth on his journey.