‘What if YOU are your job?’
As an artist.
The creative mind is a puzzle. The puzzle is always intricate. Or other words could be detailed, tedious, perfectionist… The creative mind has a way of seeing things outside of the box.
Painting and creating comes so naturally or easy!
But the business part did NOT come easy!
The business has been a journey of learning and growing…
It can feel uncomfortable, frustrating and a struggle.
Art alone is an entire project or job.
Art is not just play time.
It costs money.
It takes supplies.
It takes dedication and commitment.
It also needs a place to create.
A business needs all of that.
To most artist the words creative projects and work or business project mean two different things.
The idea of business can bring overwhelm to so many creatives.
The thoughts spill through the mind like ‘I’m not a business type of person’. ‘I can’t run my own business’. ‘My brain doesn’t think like a business person’. ‘I’m different’. ‘My creations are just my fun’. “I’m not good enough’. ‘I have to have a job’.
The list goes on…
‘What if YOU are your job?’
What does that even mean?
What if YOU are your job?
Those words have come to me in so many ways and I didn’t understand what it meant. It didn’t seem possible in the world I lived in.
I thought I had to have a job and that art was an outlet of fun or release.
I knew that there are artists making money off their art and I also knew that its a tough road of commission.
It felt HARD.
Then I realized I was putting myself in a box. I was not an artist.
I am so much more.
I’m a creative.
I’m a visionary.
I’m intuitive and empathic.
I’m play.
I have always been that way.
I remember the classes getting taken out of school.
I remember feeling confused. I didn’t understand why the things that I felt came easy to me and that I was inspired to work on were the things that we not important.
This lead to many years of feeling NOT IMPORTANT.
Today there are soooo many of those creative minds that got shut down.
Now we are struggling to be happy and many of us don’t really know why.
For me it was feeling forced to do the JOB every day. Everything was so repetitive.
I felt board and didn’t know what to do about it.
I even found a JOB that was creative?
Almost 20 year in the beauty industry I have cut and colored hair, makeup, weddings, movie sets, extensions and hair replacement … you name it I tried and worked it.
I was making 6 figures and had an amazing salon team.
And I was broken.
On the inside I was, what I liked to call at the time, “A Ticking Time Bomb”
And at the time I was…
Ticking.
BOOM!
Ticking….
BOOOOOM.
To most of the world I was a success.
And in my world I was in a box I thought I had no choice but to be in.
And there was a big part of me at the time that didn’t even know I was in this box.
The truth was shoved so deep inside of me … when I realized I was living a lie,
To everyone around me... I was crazy.
And thank god today I am still crazy! LOL
It just took me realizing that it is ok to be crazy.
In fact crazy is what the world needs.
There are those words again …
“What if YOU are your job?”
I was so upset by this because I truly did not understand what that meant.
I started calling myself an entrepreneur.
Which I am.
But for many years I thought that meant that I had to build a business.
And it kind of does…
But what I learned supporting businesses and non profits as well as running my own was that I was actually gaining tools.
Tools that I found myself applying my creativity to.
These tools were like a paintbrush and canvas.
I realized I could treat a business like an art project.
So if I make my art and business one big art project then I am my job!!
I AM MY JOB!!!
This journey has landed me on a path of creative play.
There is NO reason at all that we as humans can’t apply our natural talents and passions to the day to day ‘job’ that we do to create work, success and abundance.
It is completely possible
And wayyyyyyy less stress.
I don’t feel like I work.
I just create.
I hang out with cool people.
Give and receive healing.
Play!
And Live.
I owe this beautiful, intense journey to a thought…
A thought that “There has to be more?”
That I create my reality.
ME.
Acknowledging and accepting ME for the person I am and used to be.
The scared traumatized little girl, my bitchy attitude.
Judgements, needs and leads.
I’m a constant work in progress and I have made no mistakes.
I have only made decisions that led me to be who I am today and I wouldn’t take any of that back.
Decisions I made at the time I was positive was the RIGHT thing. Now I look back and see it was not only NOT the RIGHT thing but the absolute WORST choice.
And I learned. I’m grateful.
Good or bad every experience and moment is an opportunity to create the moment.
You are YOUR job, journey, experience and time.
#InnerBeautyExperience @Natchurale
