Your personality is one of your assets, so draw on your strenghts as a right brainer to create income opportunities and handle the business side of your creative endeavors

Always remember you are unique… just like everybody else. Not all creative people are disorganized, distracted dreamers, guided by emotion and impulsiveness, making illogical and irrational decisions about money, and so allergic to detail they don’t deal with things like balancing their checkbook or reading their contracts.  Most creative people are very clever when it comes to managing money and come up with all kinds of creative ways to get what they want. This includes finding innovative ways to make money, unorthodox (but effective) strategies for managing that money, and definitely finding new and creative ways to spend money. Creative people are very resourceful, using their craftiness to solve problems when they simply don’t have the dough.

What I think we can all agree on is that we want an easy, quick, maintenance free money management system that will keep pumping money into our lives while we are free to work on what we want (or not work at all). We want no fuss.

Now for the good news. 

Look at where you are right now and ask yourself how you got there. Even if you have never been good with money, you can change. We can retrain your brain and use your right brain strenghts to run your life and your business so that it shows a profit. Society frowns on our quirky and sometimes unorthodox ways. But many of these are essential in creating great works of art. They may seem unproductive to outsiders, but they help in the creative process. Being an idea person, risk taker, dreamer, big picture thinker and believer in the impossible, curious, comfortable with change, passionate, emotional and creative are not bad traits when it comes to dealing with financial matters. Know your strenghts as well as admitting your weaknesses and see how to maximize one and minimize the other. That means breaking old stories, habits and behaviors that didn’t bear fruit in the past.  So even if you failed at everything you have tried before, that does not mean you will fail again. Stop describing yourself as being bad with money.

Big picture thinkers don’t do well with details but are able to see several steps ahead, which can even be more important. That way you don’t dwell on the small setbacks but, instead, you keep your eye on the larger goal. Then you are more relaxed and don’t sweat the small stuff. This makes you a better artist too. Instead of feeling fear, you are more assured of what to do and you’re able to do it.  We need to do the small steps that lead to big time success. Otherwise the dream will always be out there. The big picture is well, big and overwhelming but once we can break it down into a series of micro movements, it is doable. Pick a destination or heading (your dream) and point yourself to it.

We have addictive personalities. Sometimes that is good. You get it in your mind that your are going to get out of debt and nothing will stop you.  You may even become obsessed with saving and playing down that debt.  We love to juggle and flit from thing to thing. Sometimes the best thing you can do is invest and leave the thing alone. Time is your ally.

Wealthy, successful creative people have the same traits as you. They also have the same fears, hurdles and worries that you do. They conquered their fears and demons and overcame obstacles to make money. If they can do it, so can you.