Did you think that once you adopted a career as an artist and have included with it a profound and devoted spiritual path that God, Spirit or your chosen nomenclature, that you would then now be allowed to remain "invisible?"
As a very outgoing, effusive and gregarious character all of which I have "in spades," it never occurs to me while I'm working with my clients that "fame" or visibility is something they are unaware they are going to have to deal with. For in the very promotion of one's career, visibility comes with the territory, and for some celebrity and fame.
I've wrestled with this one....at times, and in this moment I am making a significant discovery.
I chose not to sit on a mountain top in the Himalaya and pray for peace.....although that is certainly an option that I COULD choose and would be as effective as that which I am engaged in now. ( Loved the article that I posted a few weeks ago.....that reminded me that there are monks in Tibet who are praying for my success and happiness RIGHT now as I write this note for my colleagues and friends here on Face Book. I am amazingly inspired by that notion...that there is someone who does not know me personally, but who cares for me more deeply than perhaps I may sometimes even care for myself ) Awesome consideration
So here's the news... FAME comes with the territory. And responsibility for that FAME also comes with the territory.
Now you COULD be a rockstar and spend alot of time participating in wildly destructive behaviour and trash your hotel...or you could be BONO and Cure Aids from the face of the earth....I choose Bono.
And I also choose that with every step I take that whom ever is "in my path" get a good dose of sunlight, consideration, recognition, appreciation, kudos, complements and THANKS for a job well done......
and don't you know that THAT kind of effusiveness also gets me in trouble....Where did humans ever lose our ability to "receive" recognition for a job well done, recognition that I appreciate the fact that you are successful by continuing to breathe, and that your SO successful to have crossed my path......sorry...cause if you're in MY world......the rest of the world will know that you exist ~
That is my job, by the way....I am a promoter.
(Using my strengths to their best USE )
I am a creative business development specialist
I am CREATIVE
and I am certainly ALIVE !!!
There is not denying this and in the words of my sister whom I adore...she says....often
"Susie......there is just NO ONE LIKE YOU ON EARTH
They broke the mold after they made you......"
So I accept that I am very very unusual. I live in an unsual manner. I roam the earth in a nomadic way, and I freakin' LOVE MY LIFE.
Has it been easy ? Are you serious ....and I laugh loudly 'outloud'
Has it been adventurous ? ~ Absolutely
Has it been a challenge to be an "edge runner" ~ OMG of course.....always a initiator of new ideas I now wish I had taken a picture of all the times I've pitched a new idea to a company, to a client, to a business, to the world, and received that universally recognized "DEER in the Headlights" stare.
Heads nodding.....recipient speechless.....well here's the trick ~ I know I am an innovator.....I know I spread ideas and actions in ways that make people's head spin.....but here's what I also know ....is that eventually the recipient will calm down, take the time to analyze was presented and will with out a doubt come back to me in full understanding and or acceptance, and often times will relate the same idea to me almost as if they had thought it up......
That is AWESOME......yet it is also a little discombobulating in the immediate moment that I have to "wait" for the understanding to land....but it always does.
AND in the role of now "VISIBLE".....one also has to deal with the fact that SOME will LOVE us....and SOME will do everything in their power to "shut off the light" ~ so to speak.....and will rant, rave, and carry on in ways that I find astounding which emulate some of the very very best examples of pure self - sabotage ever witnessed by mankind.....and I accept that those people I cannot help...oh well.
Do I spend a lot of time worrying about this ? NOPE
I do analyze it, to assure that I have not intentionally hurt some one.....as I can get rather "on a roll" but I don't angst over the fact that there simply some people who will NOT ever want to be in my world, be a part of my world, play in my world, or do business with me....
but it surely will not stop me, nor will it have me slip back under a rock in the darkness, because my effusive nature is "too much" for one particular individual.
In light of the fact that I have invested a lifetime into personal development, classes, courses, experiences and knowledge.....why on earth would I waste such a treasure by a slight discomfort with the fact that FAME finds me ..... I don't have to try,
In some circles that is called charisma......like Hollywood whereby charisma alone is monetizable....
The energy I have is BIG....the enthusiasm I hold for LIFE is palpable.....and thanks to all the personal development courses I have a heart the size of the UNIVERSE itself ~ I am so lucky, to have had this chance to live NOW, to KNOW you, and to SMILE alot today.
Why on earth would I want to HIDE that ?
Please forgive me if this is a little "too effusive" for you this morning .....
the good news its all natural ..... and with that think I'll go get some coffee now.....
Make it a GREAT day. It is of course "the first day of the rest of your life"
Make it Count !
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