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Relax.
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I do business stuff. (Sometimes.)
I've written previously of how I work irregularly, and 'less rather than more'. And also that I'm not usually motivated by money - I can get by ok on relatively very little.
It's something about which I've often felt uncomfortable.
Why?
Because as someone in business, and often doing entrepreneurial work, aren't we supposed to work crushing hours… amassing financial wealth?
Em… actually, no. Or perhaps 'maybe we are', but I'll no longer feel dis-ease about my not doing so.
With increasing age, I'm better able to understand and embrace my creativity - and to live and work accordingly.
Creativity isn't something to be forced, to be dialed-up and delivered on command to a schedule. It comes in its own time. And departs accordingly.
So I sometimes work relatively intensely, and other times are relatively (or totally) inactive - it varies.
And, as regards the money… nonsense though it may sound, often creating something is reward itself.
So, I'll continue to work when I want and not when I don't, and not be too bothered about not being financially-driven.
I am, after all, a creative person who often does business stuff - some of which is entrepreneurial. I'm not really a 'business person'.
I've written previously on this, the 'songwriter rather than singer' thing. And yes, of course I realise how pretentious that sounds.
Would I also like to be able to deliver – to be a 'singer-songwriter' (not literally)?
Yeah, I think I would. It would certainly have been bloody useful at various times in my life.
But I'm not. They have been times when I've been able to deliver, and do it well – but it's something from which I've moved on (because I prefer to create).
And again, it's something about which I shouldn't feel bad, because my creativity is good – and I accept that there are people who are better than me at various things and I perhaps don't work as might be expected, and that's something about which I'm fine.
There's some stuff I just can't do, or at least not do well, and doing it reduces my ability to do the stuff I can do and at which I'm good so where appropriate I avoid and don't do the stuff at which I'm not good, and stick to that at which I'm good.
Anyway, enough of this… I've work to do (or a garden to sit in).
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