Creativity makes money. A couple of years ago I was at a seminar put on by T. Harv Eker’s company Peak Potential called the Million Mind Intensive where you examine your financial blue print. It was pretty interesting, anyway the trainer who was leading the seminar asked “What makes money?” and almost everyone in the room responded, “Money makes money”. Then he said something that rocked my world and at first I could not accept it as truth. He said, “Creativity makes money.”
Everyone around me started nodding their heads in agreement, everyone seemed to get it but me. I sat there thinking about all the poor “starving artist” who had been grinding it out at day jobs they hated, and then working as musicians at night and on weekends, many of them slowly loosing there ambition as songwriters and musicians, Or the lucky ones, the people who played music for a living but many of them were really broke – all the time. I have been more fortunate than most but have definitely experienced a lot of ups and downs (the reason for the seminar).
Before that weekend was over I understood what the trainer was talking about and more importantly I understood my own paradigm. The event I was attending happened to be in the Los Angeles and I was there with two of my fun and crazy friends. The first night of the event we went looking for a grocery store because one of my friends was on a diet and needed to buy some broccoli – long story short we ended up in an undesirable part of the city in a store that looked like they had not had a produce shipment in over a week. I was shocked at how poor this neighborhood was as it was not far from the very nice neighborhood we were staying in. The next night, because we had completed this three-day seminar we decided to celebrate by going out to dinner and we all agreed on the Cheesecake Factory on Rodeo Drive. After dinner we walked up one side of Rodeo Drive and back down the other. It was late and very few people inhabited the street. We admired the beautiful shops and guessed at what the beautiful things in the window might cost, we knew in some cases the same price as a house in Iowa! As we admired the goods in the windows and the beautiful window dressings, I got it, Creativity makes money!
Some people create songs, others create buildings, some people create amazing clothes, others create businesses – What ever we have, we have created it or more accurately put, we have co-created it with the creative force of the universe. I am not sure why this was so hard for me to see but I see it clearly now, I think it had more to do with my “money blue print” than anything else.
Since then, one of my practices is that I ask my self a series of questions every day when I am working on something, these questions are – “Why am I creating this? “And “Who does it serve? “If you are interested putting yourself into a more prosperous state of mind this is a great place to start. If you are interested in the seminar I attended I can highly recommend it along with the book– Secret’s of the Millionaire Mind, Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth. Check it out www.millionairemind.com
