I’m not always happy, I don’t think I will always be happy, it would not be a happy life if I was always happy, right?
So that is a good question: Can you go do good in the world and not necessarily feel happy for it?
Yeah, I think so! I think that a lot of people do a lot of good in the world, including me and never really know what impact I’ve had. And now I’m trying to up that, not play small, because this is another paradigm I’m hearing a lot about - playing small. And I don’t like that paradigm either because, hey, just playing is enough. And playing small, playing big, again, it just goes down to mindset. And I think mindset can be represented in vibration - metaphorically or otherwise.
I saw that learning to be an entrepreneur was what was going to get me what I wanted, without really understanding what it was that I wanted. And I say that and I know that there's a whole other cluster of cells in my brain that are saying “Miles, you do know what you want”. And I think that is true with most people, I think a lot of creative people do know what they want.
How do we fund doing what we're here to do if we can't ask for the money to do the things that have a spiritual base where asking for the money can be counterproductive.
And I understand the idea of selling out on your spirituality or selling out on your art or selling out on your music or selling out on your message is really what it boils down to. I got to I got to put that aside, and I'm saying no, that's not the way to look at it.
Money is energy and to be able to do good work in the world we need the energy and the energy flow, we have to change these ideas and concepts into mechanical energy, people doing stuff, building buildings, creating sound chambers, doing concerts, promoting this stuff, creating product, changing the energy into actual form that people can consume.
I suppose I like juggling because it's more “doing”. I stand there in front of a person and I can see all the things they're struggling with, I can see where their concentration is and where their concentration needs to be.
I love the idea of being a juggling teacher. I love the idea of being a coach of some sort in this whole digital CEO world of ours. I have all the skills to do it, I have all the potential to make plenty of money, it's not that I don't think I can make money.
First and foremost I'm a Creative - I'm a musician, I'm a juggler, I'm a performer - and in the end I have decided the avatar of myself is the “Compassionate Creative”.
When I was a child thinking…
“when I grow up people are gonna be different and war doesn't really happen anymore, that was the past, people have gotten beyond that.”
I thought that early in life. I feel like I'm a late bloomer just now coming into my own power!
It's really funny to have gone through so much of this online training and watch so many of my friends go through a similar process and make a similar investment and get really stuck with the execution of entrepreneurial training programs because it's just not what they're used too - to be able to get through blocks and thrive doing what you want to do to make money without diverting energy and resources from your creativity.
To feel something different than responding to the stimuli of a reactive life!
Heartfelt Marketing Academy - I want to help other creative compassionates learn to use their creativity. I’m looking for people who want to support this effort - who want to support peace, who wants to support juggling, who wants to support music - and I’m doing this by creating one community.
Am I willing to do what it takes to be the creative guy and go a path that is less certain, and will that include doing these 90 day commitments to things like the Juggling for Mind/Body Connection, even if it’s not exactly what I think I need for the endgame. Sometimes you just got to get in front of the camera and stumble through things.
So much time and the energy goes into creating the cash-flow machine. I don’t do this as an entrepreneur, I do this as a Compassionate Creative and Seeker. And sometimes you just have to get in front of the camera and ramble, and then you got to do the work! You have to go through and listen to your own words, cut and paste this with that, and tell your story through video editing. And it’s gotta not sit on a hard drive somewhere forever. It's got to be worked by you or you have to create your team. That is my job right now, to sift through this stuff and to do my own healing. Man, I got a lot of jobs right now.
Let’s just talk about the energy you feel in your body and your motivation in your mind and your happiness and practicing rewiring circuitry in the brain that you want to rewire. You want to be happy! So practice happiness.
How can I not be happy here? Well, there’s an answer to that. It’s easy to not be happy out in places that are wonderful around you, but you have to practice, and if you practice being unhappy then that is how the brain is wired - and now we can start talking about mental health issues. But if you want to be happy, you have to practice happiness and you have to also understand that it’s not necessarily about always being happy.
I think that capitalism is wonderful for what it's good at. It's not so wonderful for any number of other things, and addressing human suffering, capitalism is just not the best way to approach it. Which is probably why I have such a hard time when I think about trying to create my own business, how do I fund it? If I'm not using a capitalistic model for funding my vision of goodwill in the world, how am I generating the cash flow to keep the people working on the problem?
I created Heartfelt Marketing Academy because I watched so many of my creative colleges struggle in their heartfelt business to express themselves and feel relevant in the world while having the cash-flow to be successful in their mission.
Social anxiety is very predominant in a lot of what I do and I think it's very predominant in a lot of what social entrepreneurs are trying to do - they are telling their stories, they are finding their niche by taking their experience and sharing it with others who are having a similar experience. And even sharing our unsimilar experiences is really important, perhaps even more important than sharing our shared experiences.
My story is An Optimist's Path through Cynicism, having grown up being very optimistic. Here I am age 62 finally getting into my own power, finally knowing that I have something I want to say and something I want to give to the world.
I hear people talking about playing small, especially in the solopreneurship space. And what does “playing small mean?” That is probably the wrong question. Why do we play small? Why do we play not to the potential of what we can do? Why do we not go out into the world and have the experiences we know we can have?
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