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10 Reasons Why Having Your Own Business as a Creative Rocks!

creatibe_biz_rocksDoes the thought of running your own business scare you?

Has it held you back from starting a business with your creative work?

It shouldn’t.

Don’t ever let that be what stops you.

Here are 10 reasons why having your own business as a creative rocks!

  1. Decide when you want to work. Creatives love to go with the flow. Inspiration hits at odd times and most love to work at those odd times. As the owner of your own business, you set your own work schedule! Want to work at 3am? Yes you can!
  2.  Your income has no limits or ceiling. You decide what you want to make and you are never caged in by the income ceiling of a regular job. The beautiful thing about this time in history is that we can expose our work around the world and within so many venues because of the internet. How can this happen? It begins with the inner shifts. You stop looking at what everyone else is (or isn’t ) doing and you get the inner game set for success. The opportunities are limitless!
  3.  Creative ideas turn into multiple streams of income. As a creative, you aren’t limited to just producing one type of  work. Your talents can create multiple streams of income through a variety of ways within your specific genre, medium or topic.
  4.  You can travel and still be working! There are so many exciting things set up now for entrepreneurs who love to travel, such as office space/studio swaps and house-sitting gigs. You can travel, get inspired and still be working! (and getting paid via those multiple streams of income!)
  5.  You can enhance your craft and technique through online courses. Never before has it been so easy to take online courses for just about anything!  They can be accessed at any time, day or night. This leaves you free to work when you want to work and still be learning something new.
  6.  Run and market your work, your way. If you’re a non-traditionalist (and most creatives are) you can run your business in a very intuitive/creative way and not worry one bit about what any other business owner (or artist) is doing. You get to run yours in a way that matches what you’re good at and love doing.  This is covered in my Manifesting Your Creative Magic Program at length! We set up a system that is easy and NOT time consuming!
  7.  As a Creative, you get to re-invent yourself and your work as many times as you want! You don’t have to think about stopping at a certain age and retiring. You will have ideas upon ideas for new work and new ways of making money and because of that, you will stay younger and vibrant a lot longer!!
  8.  Fill the needs of future problems. As a creative, you probably get “hits”  on ideas that might seem too far-fetched or not applicable right now. Right now being the keywords. You more easily tap into mass consciousness and can take one of those far-fetched ideas and begin putting it into form – then when the populace is ready, BAM! You are a genius/Inventor/Inspirational Seer with your new idea!
  9.  Your expression of life through your medium actually helps to create the future! What will you create for our world? What do you want to pass along to the next generation?
  10.  You can work through inspiration and your values.  Not what some boss or manager wants you to do. You can experience the freedom that others only dream about. You get to be in the zone – that space where you’re lost in your creativity and you love it! That raises your vibrations.  The more fun you’re having and the more you’re involved in your passion, the more money you’ll make.  You’ll be happier, healthier and more vibrant, which will have people begging to buy your work!

 

Do any of these jazz your juices? Is there some part of you that wishes you could create a business with your creative talents?

Let’s talk!

I give free  30 minute sessions to creatives who are tired of wishing and want to see if they’re ready to take that next step. It’s informal, fun and you WILL walk away with valuable information on what to do next! Just CLICK HERE to schedule one!

Start Using The Power of Your Imagination

How would it feel if you were living as a working artist making the money you want and feeling blissed out each day?

It amazes me each time I ask a client this question. I get the deer in headlights response.

So many old crappy beliefs rush into their heads, they can’t even sort them enough to answer at all.

Brain freeze.

There is a well-known phrase I’m going to toss out at you right now.

Get your hopes up!

How did you react to it?

Some of us were taught NOT to get our hopes up regarding something we wanted. It was a safety measure, so if it didn’t come true, we wouldn’t be so hurt. (Wow, is that ever an ego maneuver!)

Here’s the kicker and reason that’s the worst advice (however protective and good intentioned it might be).

We are always transmitting an energy signal to the Universe. That signal is transmitted by how we FEEL about a topic. In turn, the Universe matches that signal and its match shows up in your life via your friends, job, home, experiences and things.

 If you hold back your excitement about what you desire for your life, believing that will keep you safe, those same non-excitement, safety feelings is what the Universe will deliver.

 

It’s like standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and shouting in a shrill voice, “LIFE SUCKS!”

What echo comes back? A hearty, LIFE IS GRAND!

No. You get back what you sent out.

It’s all energy. It all works in the same way.

Not getting your hopes up is very counter-productive to what is innately your source of power.

All of your desires allow the Universe to be everything that it is wanting to be.

Part of its unfolding is realized through what you wish to do and be. The Universe is relying on you to make your desires come true.  And, it is wanting to actively help you make them come true.

You carry within your being an aspect of the Universe that wants to be expressed.

Read that a few times and let it sink into your body. Feeeeeeeeeel it. Pretty cool huh?

Our source of power, our divine birthright, comes from our ability to express the Universe!

Why not send out the excitement, passionate bliss and thrill of your desire? Because in doing that, the Universe will match it.

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We are made from what made the Universe. We are made from what made time. We have been given the ability to express what needs to be expressed.

 

Are you ready to fully accept and step into that power?

This is why you have an imagination. This is how you use that power!

 

As a Creative you imagine all kinds of things for your work, right? idea-152213_640

Your ability to imagine things that seem so real, you can feel like you’re right there in it.

Take that same power you use for your work and use it to envision what you want as an artist.

Pretend you’re creating a new character. This character is very talented in whatever medium you work in. This character has been given a HUGE grant to do her work.

So huge, she can set up a studio that is perfect.

So huge, it pays all her bills.

So huge, she can even have some fun with it.

So huge, she can take some classes and learn new techniques within her medium.

Do you see her life? See how it looks and what she is doing?

Now, replace her with YOU.

See yourself THERE.

See YOU with what you want to have/do/be as an artist.

FEEL it, feel the spine tingling, school girl giggling, rush through your body thrill of having it.

Get your hopes UP!

Skip, whistle, sing, smile, giggle….cheer to it with your wine at dinner…visualize it as you fall to sleep. Buy a bouquet of flowers as a Congrats! for it. Make a special dinner in celebration of it.

 

Do this as often as you can, because the Universe doesn’t operate in time as we know it, it just responds to energy.

 

Become one of those people who took hold of this awareness, accepted it, used it and allowed the Universe to expand!

 

I’d say that does indeed call for a celebration!!

Take action:

Pretend that you just got a letter in the mail. It announced that you were the recipient of a HUGE monetary gift. You got this gift because your creative work needs to be shared.

This gift will allow you to work as an artist fulltime.

It will cover your bills, buy your supplies and support your creativity.

But, you must make a list of what you’ll do with the money.

Make that list now.

How will your life change?

How do you spend it?

What will you buy?

How does it make you feel?

Each night before you go to sleep, pick something on the list you wrote out and imagine having it.

Start using the power of your imagination to manifest the lifestyle you desire to have as a Creative!

 

 

3 Ways to Catch Your Dreams

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It’s spring time, which always makes me think about new beginnings and things being born.

That includes new dreams being born.

New dreams that go from being a vague thought or wish to actually happening!

That is what the art of manifesting is all about.

I want to share with you 3 ways to catch your dreams and take them from wishes to reality.

  1. Time 146H

Time can be the #1 killer of a dream. We think we’ll work on making it happen once we have time. Guess what? Seldom does the time ever appear. We end up living with Time Scarcity, struggling just to get the stuff of our daily lives done before we fall into bed at night. Suddenly, years have gone by. Where did that time go?

 How to use Time to make your dream a reality?

Time is a man-made thing we use to navigate our physical world. But, time is an illusion.

The “time” we have each day can change with our perception of the time we have each day.

Time changes with our priorities.

Time changes with our focus.

 What are you giving all of your time focus to that isn’t allowing you to catch your dream and make it a reality?

Even if you have a very long to-do list each day due to your job, kids or other obligations, when you ONLY focus on that, THAT is all that is in your time focus.

 

When you start a new focus, your time will shift into allowing in that new focus.

Try it:  Start focusing on some element of your dream…starting a novel, taking painting classes, finding a writing mentor, etc.

As you’re falling asleep at night,  see yourself doing it. Don’t get caught up in the fact that you don’t have it – just feel the fun, excitement and joy of seeing yourself doing it.

Take note of what happens next in your life, because I guarantee that something will change and show up.

 

  1. Ask and Receive 160H

Have you ever asked the Universe (or whatever label you use to represent the Highest Power you believe in) for something you want, but then when something came along that was part of giving it to you, you blocked it?

It amazes me at how often we all do this.

We politely say NO if someone offers us something because we don’t want to seem needy, or incapable or it was what our Moms taught us to do.

The thing is, the Universe uses others to deliver what we’ve asked for!

When we have a dream…that desire acts like a magnet and it sends stuff our way. The stuff is part of the path we need to get there.

So, we must not block that stuff if we want that dream!

Try it:  Practice receiving

What do you do when someone compliments you?

What do you do when someone offers to do something for you?

Buy you something?

Give you something?

Practice receiving and you’ll start to see MORE showing up!

Think about how you can INCREASE your experiences of receiving your dreams.

 

  1. Embracing Our Mistakes 145H

Why do mistakes and failures get such a bad rap?

The truth is, they are our best allies. They give us such rich material to work from and they help us to always be upping our game.

A failure can lead us in a new direction.

In the act of creativity, mistakes lead to new ideas and can even launch a new work of art for us.

But, too often, folks allow mistakes to STOP their dreams.

They think on that one big mistake as something that defines them as “not good enough.”

It hangs over their head, growing each time they think back on it.

“Not going to make that mistake again!” is a phrase that inhibits creativity!

 

Try this: Write down the dream you’ve been wanting and then write a whole list of the mistakes you could look forward to making in it!

That will shift your perspective to one that is empowering and allow your dream to START, not stop!

Please enjoy my free gift to you and get started on creating the Creative Gifts Life you WANT!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome

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And so it begins…I’ve given birth to something that has been buried deep within me for most of my life.

Maybe you could call me a late bloomer? Whenever astrologers read my chart, I always heard that things would finally kick in for me in my later years.

Well, here we are.

I can also blame my Life Path number: 11

We 11’s have to go through a lot of shit…then we can shine a light on what helped us, so we can help others.

Regardless of why it took so long, for the first time in my life, I can say, with full enthusiasm, that I am doing exactly what I’m passionate about.

I help Creatives manifest the lifestyle they desire as a working artist.

Creativity and Manifesting are my two loves. It took me over 30 years to see that the two go hand in hand.

I call it Magic, but since I couldn’t call my new business Magic, I chose Create The Leap.

Welcome.

Create the Leap is for you if:

  • You have a deep desire to do your creative work full time and are tired of getting hung up in all the starving artist bullshit.
  • Want to discover your inner magic and how to use it to manifest the lifestyle you desire.
  • Know that your work is so much a part of you that it hurts NOT to do it, but you need the confidence to put it out there.
  • Want a community where you feel accepted, supported and can be your unique creative self.

Please enjoy my free gift to you and get started on creating the Creative Gifts Life you WANT!