A great question came recently from one of my valued Subscribers who asked - ‘How can I achieve my higher potential and at the same time get paid good money for my passion, my hobby, which is in a creative, artistic area?’
In response, here are some thoughts and suggestions that I hope you’ll also find helpful -
The challenge for creative people who pursue their life purpose is how to turn their passion into their livelihood. This is a biggie! … It often takes major courage to pursue your life purpose and true calling.
Many people have found their life purpose when they’ve taken time to reflect and see that something or some hobby they’ve been doing all along for friends for fun & free or charge (like coaching or counselling friends, art, crafts, creative gift arrangement & wrapping, floral arranging, gourmet goodies, or whatever …) - is actually a tradable commodity.
The challenge is then to make the ‘internal’ shift and put a ‘value’ on your creativity, talent and contribution - and believe it with conviction!
When we start out in whatever we pursue, it’s good personal and business karma to give generously of yourself and your talents. But, there comes a time when you must decide to take action to make this a paying proposition, if that is what you desire.
You may need to go ‘inside’ and ask some vital questions of yourself and make some ‘internal’ shifts to achieve what you want ‘externally’. You may have some beliefs, conscious and subconscious, that you are/or aren’t fully aware of that may be holding you back. Our ‘outer’ results are completely correlated to our ‘inner’ thoughts and feelings about what we want and desire.
Ask yourself these questions, in this sequence -
1. What is it that I DO NOT Want? What are my thoughts, feelings and emotions around this?
2. What is it that I DO Want? What are my thoughts, feelings and emotions? Our thoughts, feelings and emotions directly influence our behavior and results.
3. Why do I Want this? Really connect with the emotion of your Why, you’re compelling reason and motivation.
4. What are the beliefs I hold to be true around these areas - positive and negative/limiting?
5. What are the overriding benefits and rewards that will come to me by pursuing this? How will that make me feel when I achieve what I want? What are the costs if I don’t do it?
Try to identify the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back. To get what you want, to achieve your goals, your highest potential, you have to clear any limiting beliefs you may have.
Limiting beliefs stop us from taking action. They get in the way and create blockages to our achieving the success we desire and deserve They stand in your way of making the changes you really desire.
When you’ve made the ‘internal’ shifts, then the ‘external’ actions you pursue (packaging your proposition, getting referrals, networking, actions to ‘attract’ ‘ideal’ paying clients who are more than happy to pay for your services … ) are more likely to get you the tangible results you want.
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Kathy Baker is a Success Coach (Business/Marketing/Personal), Marketing Practitioner, Writer, & Law of Attraction Practitioner. She practices Intuitive Marketing with Integrity, & specializes in Niche Marketing & Information Product Marketing. She works with success & freedom seeking individuals & entrepreneurs in helping them find ways to achieve their dreams.
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