Barbara Sher: Why You Must Do What You Love

From the Big Cheap Weekend in New York, July 2010. Go to www.geniuspress.com

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• I Could Do Anything

[BarbaraSherWishcraft]

I love what you've done, Crunchy. You got it right. You heard the message. Thank you for posting.

[Crunchy68]

After seeing this video I decided to start making crafts, and giving them away. Everyone says I could/should sell them, but I love the creative part of designing and making them, and I would NOT like becoming a factory/business. Now I feel much happier, and I make friends all over the place. I even donate homemade toys to my dentist's office for the kids. I feel like I'm doing what I should, at last.

[Crunchy68]

I want you happy because if you're doing what makes you happy, you're contributing your talent to the world. What you love is what you're gifted at. Obstacles may include the need to make money, or an apparant lack of time, or fear of being selfish, or resistance, or isolation, or lack of support, or lack of information. But your species needs you to do that which you do better than anyone. Just do the part you love. Don't insist that it turns into a career. Do what you love, for fun.

[Crunchy68]

Because I enjoyed Farmville and other games that were all about designing an imaginary world, I've let my imagination fly free with "what if's" designing a "real" village, never thinking it had to "mean" anything other than that I was having fun. Now I'm realizing I have a real talent for this, and am becoming inspired to try to make my imaginary village real. Grandiose-sounding or not, I may have discovered my "genius" that could change housing as we know it. Dare I dream? Why not!

[Crunchy68]

@studioworks1990 That sounds like a good suggestion for a "real" artist, but I'm not one. I'm a scanner, and I never stick with one project long. After I had my crafting fling, I moved on to nail art. But I didn't open a salon. Now I'm into designing an imaginary village. For me it's the creative process I love, not the idea that I can sell it. I feel fulfilled in learning and experimenting, and that gives me strength and joy to face other more boring parts of life, that are just "work".

[studioworks1990]

@Crunchy68 Later you could do it for sale in a little store and put a little sign saying: "We don't accept requests as it would harm the creative process of the artist. Thanks for understanding" or something like that.

[studioworks1990]

"Americans think that if it doesn't make money it doesn't count, you know, tell that to Da Vinci or Einstein".

This frase was made to be heard by me at this moment. I've been obsessed lately with finding my passion, then making money from it so I can live my passion and be as good as Einstein or Da Vinci.

I had exactly these two names in my head.

Guess I'll have to worry about the money later then.

[randito]

Literally lol @ 3:42

[Nanceify]

Thank you Barbara, very insightful.

[ZackkXD]

Very Powerful Barbara! =]

[kuizlehtra]

how much did you practice, this is amazing

[Qyokati]

how much did you practice, this is amazing!!