 Is it possible to be creative and authentic and yet make enough money where you don't really have to think about it? So this is one of the questions that one of you viewers Sent to me and I think maybe some of you watching this can relate and I want to share with you what my thoughts are So let me first of all share with you what the exact question was and we'll get into it So the person wrote to me I longed for the ability to create Without any thoughts of money to create because I love it to take real time off when I need it To try new things and to build in more hobby time into my life Everything I create is because I love it, but I always tend to have that background question. Will it make me money? I want to get to a place where I feel like I can try things and fail and be totally fine with it and The sort of implication behind it is that as all of us do this person wants to really create and serve Their audience and their clients without Wondering who am I going to get paid for this? Like they want the energy of service and creation to be clean in other words, right? so I can relate to because for many years I was in that state of You know where my business? Well, I was grateful that really the first year of business. I was able to make it work but in Prior to this business. I spent many years testing out different things To see if it would make money and if I wouldn't make it have it be fulfilling And so there's these two things we need to think about there's these two ends of the spectrum hobby and business right hobby is where you can create and express yourself Explore your soul with no No concern whether anybody is going to like it or buy it It's a hobby. It's something that you do for yourself for your own expression For your own personal enjoyment and growth. Alright, that's on the one side is hobby And then on the other side is business business by definition Needs to be sustained financially Which means if it's going to be sustained financially remember where money comes from I talked about this in other videos your money Comes from other people spending right you don't money just doesn't appear out of thin air It doesn't just appear in your bank account somebody decided to put it in your bank account Customer a client maybe a you know, maybe a family support or whatever or boss Somebody says up you deserve this money or you are owed this money. I'm gonna pay you this money They made a choice so in other words a business now We're no longer talking about employment and about family support but a business is where customers and clients make the decision to say oh you deserve this money because of what you What you gave me or what you're going to give me Okay, so in other words a business is where on the opposite side of hobby a business is where you need to please other people It's true bottom line, right? Well, if you don't please if you don't care completely about pleasing other people That's called a hobby now some people are very lucky and their hobbies and their expression When they put it out there people go my gosh Can I buy that artwork or can I buy that song or or can I can I hire you for that service or whatever? Now in business now that when that's the case and that person says yes, you can pay me for the service You can pay me for the product. You can pay me for the Program or my my time or whatever then you start moving more and more close closer to business and here's the thing Here's the here's the key The more money you require From your business the more money you require from the thing that you're creating The more it's a business. Let's let's let's let's let me explain that again the more money You require For the thing you do the more it's a business because if you require the money That means you need to make sure that the person giving you the money You're the customer or the client that you're meeting their requirements, right? Because you you require money from them. Well, then they're gonna require something back from you Otherwise, why would they give you any money? Right, so you need to then meet their requirements You need to make a service that they want to buy you need to make a product that they actually want to buy So the hobby and business dichotomy you got to keep that in mind. It's like, okay Am I am I really doing a hobby here where I'm just expressing? I don't care what other people think Or do I care very much what other people think because they're the ones paying me? Okay, so a couple of things here one is that if you want to create and Serve without thinking about the money You need to first make sure that the money is stable let me say that again if Money is stable in your life Okay, you've already set up a system where the money just keeps coming in Then you can really serve and create because you're not worrying so much because if the money isn't stable if you don't have a secure income, right of Course you're gonna keep worrying about it Of course, you can't fully serve with your heart or create with your spirit and mind and heart Fully because you're always worried about the money. The money is not stable. So in other words If you really want an authentic business, right? The end goal of an authentic business is where money is an afterthought Yes, and you can get there I won't tell you how so you need to have it so that money is an afterthought You're not thinking about all if you're thinking about it right now all the time You need to first solve your your I was gonna say solve your money issues, but the funny thing was I wrote a post Some months ago about how money is not a problem to be solved Okay, but you need to first set up a system where money becomes an afterthought and Then you can bring your heart. You can bring your creativity to it So how do we get how do we set up a system where money is an afterthought? Okay? So now now let's talk about the ways to do it. All right Essentially, there are three ways right where money is an afterthought One way for a few of us. We are lucky to have family support Now I'm not I am no longer in that case when I first started my business I was very lucky that my wife was in an okay job She was able to support us for a little while while I got my business going and so that was very helpful Now she's still she supported me for like a year and then I supported her for a year or two when she got her business going Anyway, so family support so do you have can you can you get some family support now? It might not be from one person it might be from like, you know, maybe it's five or ten people who are willing to support you at $500 a month from your family or if your family members and maybe that's enough to get you by just pay the basic bills And this is the other thing the more money you require The the harder it is or the more work you have to do to set up the money system So sometimes you have to look at yourself and go There let me just I'm looking you in the eyes right now, and I'm just telling you you can probably save some money Chances are everybody can save some money, right? You could probably find some way to save some money in your life You don't have to buy this you don't have to buy that you don't have to buy my courses, right? Really? To cut my courses out is the first thing to save money Maybe cut other people's courses out first and then cut my courses out in terms of business and marketing Maybe do your personal development courses. That's important to be fine But cut my courses out first. Okay, or cut any business and marketing courses out first You can learn all the stuff that I teach you on YouTube for free on Google for free So if you're struggling with money, don't buy anything for me Okay, don't buy anything for me or or any other business and marketing person Learn it all for free on YouTube or just watch my videos for free. Okay, so don't buy anything So save some money first. You got it. You got it You got to learn to save money or to not spend it as much Don't you know have this fantasy that oh, I'm gonna make money soon. So I'm gonna spend money on no This is what I'm gonna get to next. Okay, so save money you know eat beans rice and Cabbage those are pretty cheap. Okay beans rice and cabbage or Or something like that and you know, don't well now we can't go out anymore, right? We're all on lockdown. So you'll save money there But just just just look at your budget again. Look at your expenditures again go, hmm How can I get a little bit more creative to fulfill my wants to fulfill my heart? Without spending money get creative get creative. Okay, so one is the last lesson second is can you get some family support? Chances are you probably can't from somebody an uncle and aunt You know, if you have still had parents grandparents if you have kids who can support you if you're lucky to have Brothers and sisters somebody or a best friend who can support you a little bit every month Somebody who can support you family and friends support. Okay? Okay, that's one secondly or one is to save money second is family support third Get a job. No, I mean, I mean seriously there is I've said this before there is no shame in Having a stable job or two stable part-time jobs or three stable part-time jobs Whatever you need to piece together so that you have a money system That is that makes money and afterthought that's where really what where you should start if you want to really create If you want to be authentic You have to make money and afterthought Family support saving money family support getting a stable job or three stable jobs doesn't matter where you work There is no shame in doing administrative work for people at $20 an hour $25 an hour who are if you're watching this you can charge $25 an hour for administrative work You really can't I mean $25 an hour is is very reasonable if you're watching this You're somebody who already has some entrepreneurial tendencies and skills You can charge $25 an hour for it for admin support. Okay? So start there or get some other job that you can find on Indeed comm or other indeed indeed comm is popular job search site So so get a stable job or get three stable jobs Whatever you need to do so that money is no longer an afterthought so that and also Like I said save money so you don't have to be making ten thousand dollars a month If you can make three thousand dollars can you live on three thousand dollars a month? I hope so and you don't live in San Francisco like me And even San Francisco rents are crashing these days because of the pandemic people are moving away so our rent is lower and lower and lower, but $3,000 a month you should be able to live okay anywhere in the world even in the United States Okay, maybe not in like Switzerland or something like that, but three thousand dollars a month You should be able to do okay, and that's what? $25 an hour. That's a hundred hours. Well 125 something like that hours a month divide by four. That's what 30 30 hours a week So yeah, you could probably you could probably get that okay. Let's say 30 hours a week I mean, let me just do a quick calculation 30 hours a week times 4.3 120 let's just say 120 hours Yeah 120 exactly so 30 hours a week at $25 is three thousand dollars a month. Okay, so get your money system so Save money family support stable job your money system is now secure and stable and then You can start to create an authentic business truly or you already maybe you already have an authentic business That's kind of sputtering now. You can truly with the money system in place I said 30 hours a week. You're doing $25 an hour of work, right? That means you have 10 hours a week left if you want to work a 40 hour work week Which is very reasonable 10 to 15 hours a week work left if you want, you know to to build your authentic business to really grow it Without the desperation and the concern for money Money must be an afterthought Okay, so now with your with your with with your authentic business You can really create you can really serve and really bring your heart into it Without worrying if you're gonna get paid or not or without worrying how much you're gonna get paid You see what I mean, then you really have the freedom see freedom truly freedom in business is about being able to create and sell and and Serve the way you want to do it and yes, you're gonna have to do a little bit of aligning with the customer and the client to also give them what they want but You basically have this passion circle. I always talk about these two circles Looks like I'm waxing on waxing off here one circle is Your passion your interests your personality Being who you are. Okay, and then this circle is what the customer or client wants to buy from you And there is always a bit of overlap. There's not complete overlap That would be that's very lucky yet at some point you will get there when you build enough of an audience the overlap Becomes closer and closer, but at first you have to find a little bit of an overlap where okay This is part of my passion and personality and interest and happens to overlap a little bit with what you want to pay me for So that little overlap is where you can start to charge money You don't have to charge very much at first to charge something, right? You're not desperate about money money is not an issue anymore At least, you know to get by fine Okay charge up with money serve them well word of mouth starts and then you get you get more customers more customers More of an audience and as you get more of an audience, they like you more and more and more They just like your energy. They like your ideas They like your your way of doing things and more and more you and them will become more and more aligned Between passion interest personality and what they're willing to pay for and that's what I call a true fan audience An audience that buys just about anything you create and you will get there But it's hard to get there if you're feeling desperate about money Okay, it is much easier to get there really and actually even faster Right, it's easier and faster to get there if you can create content and serve people and connect with people Without that desperate energy of oh, I hope you pay me. I hope the money is gonna be there. You see what I mean? So that way you can really move forward build an authentic audience build an authentic business from the heart really from the spirit from experimentation because any Business project any new business you're creating any creative project by definition. You do not know if it's gonna bring you money So if you if you if you put a fancy see so many people that I talked to maybe you Have this fantasy that I'm building a business authentic business. They're gonna make me money See if you put money into the equation like like it's got to make me money. Otherwise, I'm not happy It's got to make me money soon. Otherwise. I don't know how to pay the bills You've corrupted and you've poisoned the authentic business. It's no longer Authentic business. It's just a business that tries to its profit-driven business Which is as you know, and not the kind of business you'd love to do because it's like oh this energy of money is always there Solve the money issue by creating a system where money is not now now I'll end with this Remember I've said before that money is not not a problem to be solved Money is an exchange between human beings that can uplift the world So you might be saying George I know of course I get stable job, but I don't like those jobs, right? Let me talk about this, but I don't like those jobs. I don't like the people I work with I don't like the work that I do and guess what? Everything you focus on expands So if you continually and maybe you've already trained yourself for years to focus on the boss that you don't like The co-workers that you don't like the environment you don't like the work that you don't you've trained yourself for years You practiced Focusing on what you don't like for years and no wonder you have an addiction now to feeling unhappy about the about the jobs That you take on that's an addiction. It's a conditioning Right, so what I encourage you to do is to break that conditioning today Break that conditioning today because any job you do is a platform for your personal development Number one and number two for your positive impact on them in the lives of others any job you use So let's let's make it make one up. Now I'm not talking about the jobs where you are being abused, right? If you are being harassed or abused in any way You can you should leave that job and find one where you're not harassed and abused But I am talking about where you don't like your co-workers or your boss because of this personality type or that personality type You're not being abused. It's just that you don't like how they work And you don't like what their worldview is you don't like you don't like their beliefs or you don't like the work that you do I think it's boring. Okay, let's say you're in that situation Again, you've conditioned yourself to be in a state of unhappiness and you need to break that conditioning today and realize that that job as long as you're not being abused that job is an opportunity for you to grow yourself in our development practice as well as outer positive impact Yes, you don't like that co-worker. Yes, you don't like your boss because he or she is like this, but guess what? You change that relationship when you change when you decide to come into work or log online and say something Praiseworthy say something appreciative about your boss Don't matter how Despicable your bosses as long as the laws are not abusing you okay as long as no matter how despicable your boss is There is something Positive you can say about him. There is some characteristic that you can appreciate about you're creative enough to do that Right, so appreciate your co-workers appreciate your boss and the relationship will change Step one step two is appreciate your work. Your work is doing bookkeeping. You think it's boring You think your work is you know transcribing whatever it is that is so-called boring work You can you've been focusing on the the bad aspects for so long that you conditioned yourself break that condition and say What is one thing I can appreciate about this bookkeeping work? Oh, this bookkeeping work is training me to be detail-oriented every time I come here. It's like detail practice It's like practicing for myself and I can start to let me practice seeing the beauty of numbers if I'm doing transcribing for somebody let me practice Learning what they're saying and learning about the subjects and go. Oh, I'm learning about something whatever it is You're doing you can bring some curiosity some interest some Appreciation the more you appreciate the more it expands that oh, there's even more things to appreciate about people and about the work So if you can break that conditioning and start to change a relationship to your boss your co-workers and your work as Appreciation now you've solved two problems. You've solved the money system problem, which was already solved because they're paying you Okay Stable income and you've solved your emotional problem, which is your problem not theirs They're not doing anything wrong unless it's abuse like I said, but if they're not using it It's your problem your emotional issues of not liking something is your Opportunity to change that around by start by using appreciation by using curiosity So if you could do that then my god 30 hours a week You are emotionally happy you have stable income and now you could spend the 10 to 20 hours a week However much you want to work on your authentic business with joy with creativity with full heart of service so I hope this is helpful and I'm always Curious about your thoughts and I'll give you a chance to add your comments below While I while you give me a chance to look at the the live comments from those who are here on Facebook watching this So I appreciate those who are here Santa and captain Thank you so much for your And Amanda, thanks for joining me for this live live call You know This is not a popular topic This is not because people don't want to hear oh, I got to go get a job and I got to be happy about it well, all that I I've got to be is Is Conditioning that you can break to say who I get to who I get to who I get to go and practice inner development and outer service In the job in this and that so I hope this is helpful. I genuinely do I hope this helps you to build your business authentically and Until the next video. I wish you well I'm George Cal for those of you don't know me authentic business coach If you like this video, you probably enjoyed my other ones Like I said, you know, I have tons and tons of free videos You don't ever have to buy anything from me. Just watch my free videos Just read my free articles if you can't afford it If you if you don't have your money systems that I beat don't buy anything from me got it. Okay. All right I will see you in the next video. Take care