Mountains of Arizona
Cloudy 67 Degrees
1:18 p.m.
I started life as a musician. I spent hours and hours, years and years practicing to get that right.
Ultimately, doing that for a living was not for me.
Music made my heart come alive, but it’s not the most practical way to raise eight kids.
From there I jumped headlong into the world of business.
To say I was unprepared would be an understatement.
Business was all about making money. Tactics, strategies, conversions…all the focus was on making a buck.
All of the planning and scheming and action could keep my mind pretty busy. It’s a never ending black hole, always searching for MORE. My heart knew something was missing.
Most people will probably tell you that you can’t really mix the two paths on this physical plane. If you follow your heart, your “success” in the material world will suffer.
If you chase material success, you risk being dead on the inside.
I believed these people for a long time. And then I bumbled around enough to realize those people were wrong.
You can align your head and your heart to do something you love and transform it into material success. You CAN have it all.
Have is the wrong word. The right word is create. You CAN create it all.
But you have to start with that intention.
You can’t be willing to settle for something that feeds your soul but doesn’t put food on the table.
And you can’t be willing to settle for something that fills your pocketbook and leaves your heart with zero deposits.
This my most recent issue of the Business Intelligence Report:
When people do things as a result of some internal truth, when they create from a connection with their true self, we call creations like that ART.
The term “starving artist” suggests that this path is not a realistic way (for most) to achieve material abundance on this plane.
But this is yet another program. If you believe it, your physical reality tends to provide the mirror of that belief. You either find the proof to verify your belief or you become the proof.
But there’s no reason art cannot produce value for others and create a return flow of resources in abundance for you.
So this is what I now spend my days doing. I end up being a well-paid artist. “What I do” is something you might describe as creating… Art of Value.
The core question then goes from, “What can I do to make money?” to something far more powerful:
“How can I be WHO I AM and align that with the needs of others to create the resources required to fuel my life?”
From my perspective, creating Art of Value is a new paradigm of exchange based on ancient and timeless principles including creative expression, mutual benefit and true power and wholeness.