By the Ocean
Cloudy 75 Degrees
6:36 a.m.
Entrepreneurs will do whatever it takes to get the result they want.
Artists will put the result they want at risk because they’re not willing to do whatever it takes if it ruins the art.
Are you an artist or an entrepreneur?
If you don’t know WHICH you are and you try to build a business, you will probably have a rough time.
If you DO know WHICH you are, you can at least be honest with yourself about the journey you are on…enough that you will understand some of the challenges that come with choosing one path over the other.
I always thought I liked business. I’ve come to realize what I really like is making money with art. That means I don’t fit in either box completely. What a surprise. An odd bird. I’m pretty used to it at this point.
Entrepreneurs make something because it will be bought.
Artists make something because they want to see it in the world.
Entrepreneurs will look at artists and say they are misguided, impractical and idealistic.
Artists will look at entrepreneurs and see emptiness and burnout and wonder how anyone could live like that.
Everyone is right. Everyone is wrong.
Choose the path that makes you feel alive. Because there’s something far worse than never being “successful” and that is living a life where you were never YOU.
In the work I do with clients, I bring the view of an artist to the world of the entrepreneur. I’ve discovered this is an effective way to create money in the marketplace.
This approach allows the work of an entrepreneur to show up DIFFERENT and to catch the attention of far more people, more quickly, more consistently.
I have bumbled into finding a way to make my art practical.
The longer I go, the more confident I get, the larger my track record becomes, the less I think about business and the more I think about art.
Because the act of buying isn’t something that happens in the mind, it is something that happens in the BEING of a prospect when something that feels truly magical is introduced into their world.