There are days when I long for the regular biweekly paycheck of the company job. Thankfully, those days are few and far between. They do usually appear around this time of the month as rent, mortgage, etc appear…

Of course I would rather stick pins in my eyes than do that route again. After 18 years self-employed it would be a difficult transition. No, make that impossible.

Ironically I have been very busy over the last month or more… the dilemma is always cash flow. Ask any self employed person what they would like most to help their business and the almost universal answer is: a bank account with $100k in it. Interestingly they never ask for more. This perplexes me - if it is “anything you want” sort of hypothetical question, why not $20Mil? I’ll answer that: because they LOVE what they do. Give me $20mil and I just might not have to work anymore… and that would be sad. The $100k just takes the impending cash flow crisis we all drift in and out of over the course of a year and once and for all puts it to rest. Then we can concentrate on what we do best. In my case, create imagery.

So short of hitting a small lottery, we creative types need to be better business people. But not TOO much of a business person. Balance. Ying/Yang and all that stuff.

So I propose (for myself, at least - if you are in a creative profession, try your own variation and let’s share results) to dedicate one day per week to generating new work. And one other day a week to generating new work. “WHAT?!?” you say! Is this the Department of Redundancies Department?!? No - one day for generating new business work, and one day for generating new personal work.

Tuesday for the Right Brain. Thursday for the Left Brain. I could never remember which side is which. That fact alone tells me I am more of the Right Brain (creative - I just Googled it) Go to this site to see which one YOU are!!! http://tinyurl.com/LeftvsRight/

I am definitely right brained…

So today’s photo is just an inspiration for myself - It’s Tuesday - go create!!!

PS - For you geek photo types, that photo was shot in available light at 1000iso on my 1D MarkIII. Is that just amazing?!? Today I love technology.  

As always, thanks for listening, and sorry for the gap in posts.