How do you feel about getting paid for the work that you do?

Good Morning.

Everyday over at Zaadz they post a question or blog prompt. I sometimes do them, and always enjoy reading the responses of others. So today this was the question:

How do you feel about getting paid for the work that you do?

This is the off the top of my head response, and then below that a little more thinking about money in general.

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I feel fine about getting paid for my work…both kinds of work that I do. My day job is being an intuitive life coach. Being an intuitive, I have never had a problem with exchanging money for my time and work in the world of spirit. It's a gift I was given at birth…a talent…should I not use it for feeding my family and keeping a roof over my head? Many people have wanted to debate the right and wrongness of my working in this field and accepting money for it. “Selling spirituality” is what some have called it. I see it like any other talent that people are born with or develop in their lives. If I was a singer…I would sing for my supper, a talented doctor…you get the picture. See…I went through a lot of soul searching about this…I was given a talent to see more than the naked eye can see…if I don't use this talent…for what reason was it given to me, and would that be like spitting in the God(s) faces, to not use it? So, I studied and still study to become a great life coach, and I use my intuitive gifts as well. I am good at what I do, really good. I have also learned that people who do not pay for what they get from me, tend to not value (even ignore) the information I share, or want more, more, more of me for free…and then they don't value the messenger (me). I treat each person like I may never speak to them again…give them all I have each time, and I charge money in this reality for my work…and I don't feel even a little bit bad for it.

My other profession (as many know) is an artist. Again a natural gift, and talent…and my passion in this life. I paint to live, and live to paint. I sell my work with no ego attached to price. I mean if someone offers me 5 bucks on a work…and I need 5 bucks…what's the problem? If I can sell my work for more, I do. I never have had any hang-ups about asking to be paid for my work. Why would I? People need money in this reality to stay alive. It's reality; if it changes…well I'll change too. Until then…I don't work for free, as most humans don't. I don't value my human worth or soul on what I give away…I value myself on what I create, what I share, and who I am. So, in short I don't have a problem with getting paid.Oh…by the way…did you need some art?

*Grins*

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Ok, so that covers the question...but it started me thinking about what I feel about money, the making and spending of it and all that jazz.

I was born and raised in the South. And there was a thing that no one really took notice of, but everyone from the richest to the poorest took part in it as a general rule in society. Some people when they needed money, would go door to door and ask to do odd jobs or shop out their particular skill. Some had produce to sell from their back yard gardens, some pushed a lawn mover door to door, some painted houses...ect. It was common place. i lived in a home that bought the produce, and goods...paid the lawn guy, and hired the painters.

No big deal. We neither took notice of this or were any better than anyone else because of it. It was just what was done. If you need something, you better be willing to work for it. Easy really.

Mate man was from one of the families that asked for the job. Same rules applied for them too. No better or worse...could only be worse if you lived off the dole...you know were a lazy drunk or whatever.

So, when I left my home at 16 and learned what it was to not have money and food and a home...it was easy for me to get up, take a look around at what I know how to do, what I had to offer and pick up a rake and go door to door asking to rake leaves, or whatever...wash cars, weed gardens.

When I got sick...and had to live off the dole (welfare)...I only had access to food items and needed more money. So...I made bread dough ornaments at Christmas (for presents for my kid) and sold them door to door. I picked flowers after asking and dried them in corn starch...arranged them...and sold those door to door too.

When I got better and had to really start making all the money needed again...I still was limited so I learned how to make organic cleaners and went out to the street with some flyer's offering to do green cleaning for homes and businesses. It worked. I had a great company for more than 7 years. I added in my landscape skills...and the business grew...I sold off the cleaning and went into landscape design and growing organic foods. I studied and learned from the local library and as the Internet took off I got a bunch of free education from there too.

So...it goes. Mate Man did much the same thing...worked, studied, applied himself and is now very successful in his line of work. A rising star.

So making money is just that right? You go out and you do it. If you don't like what you do then you do something else...go learn what you want to know and then do it.

At least that's what I have done in my life...I do like having money over not having...it makes life easier. Really it does. I just don't need a lot in this life in material goods that is. We live light. If I collect something then it's because of it's value down the line and because I enjoy it. Stuff is just stuff...money now or possibly down the road someday. Stuff is just stuff. I like nice stuff, but it's still just...stuff to load, carry and deal with. If you need to move (which I have also made a life of, being a nomad) you don't need stuff, you need money.

I guess that's about my whole idea on money, it's just money, if I need it I work hard for it. I spend it wisely, I don't have a ton of things and I learned to like wanting.

Again...I make the rules, in my world.

Ahhhh, it's all good.

Knock on wood.

Have a good day,

Heather

http://www.badkittyartstudio.com/

New Work Started...Attack of the POD people

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OK, so this is the start of a new work...it's scary right now but she will shape up soon...it's the eyeless-ness that's freaking me out. I walked into the studio this morning and almost dropped my coffee because I forgot that I didn't get to work on her eyes yesterday...sheesh!

I will be adding the face elements today and working the tones in general...I plan to work the face over in the end with a story in picture form over her skin.

Her name is going to be...'Her-story: was written on her face'

or something like that.

Anyway...

good Monday morning all.

Here's the quote for the day...

hope you all have a good one.

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The many meanings of "I Love You" "I love you" [is] a statement that can be expressed in so many varied ways.

It may be a stage song, repeated daily without any meaning, or a barely audible murmur, full of surrender.

Sometimes it means: I desire you or I want you sexually.

It may mean: I hope you love me or I hope that I will be able to love you.

Often it means: it may be that a love relationship can develop between us or even I hate you.

Often it is a wish for emotional exchange: I want your admiration in exchange for mine or I give my love in exchange for some passion or I want to feel cozy and at home with you or I admire some of your qualities.

A declaration of love is mostly a request: I desire you or I want you to gratify me, or I want your protection or I want to be intimate with you or I want to exploit your loveliness.

Sometimes it is the need for security and tenderness, for parental treatment.

It may mean: my self love goes out to you.

But it may also express submissiveness: please take me as I am, or I feel guilty about you, I want, through you, to correct the mistakes I have made in human relations.

It may be self-sacrifice and a masochistic wish for dependency.

However, it may also be a full affirmation of the other, taking the responsibility for mutual exchange of feelings.

It may be a weak feeling of friendliness, it may be the scarcely even whispered expression of ecstasy "I love you, "

- wish, desire, submission, conquest:

it is never the word itself that tells the real meaning here.

~Joost Meerloo

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I love you.

Figure that out, and get back to me.

Heather

http://www.badkittyartstudio.com/

New ideas for old problems

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Quote of the day

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The deepest-lying and most pervasive part of character is disposition: it accompanies us everywhere, and shows itself in all we do. It is the attitude of the soul toward life, the way in which we accept our situation and our daily experiences. On the inner side it gives color and tone to our own conscious life: on the outer side it pervades and modifies our conduct toward others and our reactions to events. A good disposition is indispensable to good character, though of course not all of character; without it one cannot hope for perfection; even with it one may fail through lack of higher elements. It is a sort of foundation layer.

~Edward O. Sisson

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Today I start a new day job, one that holds promise to help pay the bills and be of service to my fellow humans. Being a life coach I am always trying how to figure out how to pay the bills, manage my art life and find new clients to keep the whole thing going. I am a good coach...people don't need my services forever, I help them get on track, find passions and inroads to their success, set and keep healthy goals, better their communication skills and feel better about being in the moment. They feel better usually pretty quick and don't need me every week anymore...that's how I know I am good...my clients see results.

I have recently been offered an opportunity to work with a large company that will help to provide a steady stream of new clients. I just have to be the best I can be and take the appointments, and use my talents to help others be the best they can be. The beauty is that I can still paint while I do this.

So, I am a little nervous about the new job but also excited to use my talents as an Intuitive Life Coach to serve a greater good, and make some money at the same time. I have a new painting on the easel as well...so I can paint while I go along and hopefully have something to share on the art front tomorrow.

Busy, busy...and trying to think about my thinking in relation to my new works. I have spent too much time over the past couple of days telling myself the two new paintings were too much fun and too easy to have any value. I didn't have to sweat it out or agonize over every step...I just had some fun and didn't think too much...so can they be any good? The answer is up to me of course, they are good if they were satisfying to create, I enjoyed the process, and they are good works at the end of the work day. They fit into all three slots...so that means I can get off my own back and enjoy this muse while it is here. Not all art has to be a form of torture and anguish. I can have fun and it still be worth something, it can still have meaning.

I can coach myself as well...in other words.

Be kind to yourselves today, count your blessings, and

buy some art! :)

My mantra for today:

One expanded and encompassing thought could change my life today.

Heather

http://www.badkittyartstudio.com/

Art of the Day...is it Monday already?

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Art of the day

'Leap of Faith'

oils

18"x 24"

You can Buy it

HERE

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"You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."

~Jim Collins

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I offer a no questions asked 7 day return policy.

(7 days after YOU get it IN your home)

If you don't like it, let me know and then wrap it back up, and send it back.

I'll refund you the sale price, minus the shipping charges.

No problems, no hassles,no waiting.

Art is subjective I get that, so just relax.

And for the love of art, take a look, you never know what you will discover!

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Shipping is Not free and I know it will take a moment of your time and all to send me an email with your zip code or country...

but I don't want to overcharge everyone for shipping.

So, instead if you will take a moment and

send me that info,

I will ASAP send you back a shipping quote

to anywhere in the world!

Easy as pie, right? :)

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I hope you enjoy your day.

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com

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Monday is here again, and there are blue birds in the trees

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Quote for the day
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We're worn into grooves by Time - by our habits.

In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate or champions,

each in his way in dispatching the affairs of every day.

By choosing our habits,

we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us;

and these are grooves that enrich our

lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness

- achievement.
~Frank B. Gilberth
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I am wearing new grooves in this reality. Trying on new habits, forcing

myself to stretch, to grow, to let go.

I am sitting here, and wishing I was somewhere, anywhere else.

Some days the alone-ness of my current situation is

overwhelming. Some days it's a blessing.

I am training my mind to accept things as they are, not as I

wish them to be. Life isn't easy, life isn't fair, and life isn't

going to be, at least not for me.

I work hard on myself, my internal workings, my understanding of reality,

my capacity for making sense of what is really going on,

under the surface of things.

When I am in the studio, and working,

when the paint is flowing, and the art is capturing all of my focus,

and I am lost in worlds of texture, tone, color, and light...

I swim away from the pain, from the disappointments, from the aloofness

of this life. It's not easy to let it all roll down, and let it go.

I just keep doing my best, looking for opportunity, grasping sometimes

for a handhold in this slippery surface,

and I keep climbing up.

Hand over hand and mind over matter,

I will reach my summit, and stand in the

purified air, throw my hands up over my head

and be thankful for the hard climb.

I will survive, of that I am sure.

What I want more than anything is be able to survive with

a measure of success. Not just get through, not just get by,

not just know truth and suffer it.

I want to embrace all of the universal truths, and not be burned in the flame.

Today I will work hard, I will burn the candle at both ends,

and I will light my own way.

I will stand on the summit in my mind today, and practice feeling

success. I want to know the feeling well, when the day arrives that I actually

get to take it home, inside and let it live there.

I will practice, I will teach, I will lead, and in that truth,

I will evolve into the being I am

struggling to become.

It's not easy, but I know it's got to be worth it.

So what will you do today?

What are the choices for you,

today, in this reality, that help you to feel successful?

What Summit are you reaching for?

What is success as a definition, for you?

This is one of my ways of growing beyond the edges,

to write it all down here, for you to read.

Just today, Just Imagine,

Living in truth,

Raw & Radiant,

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com