Creative work takes days of immersing myself in it. Right now I am trying to buy my freedom so that I can make art. If you understand me through this lens, then you will see why I have been less active in Steemit as I grow a coaching and counseling business locally. I am SUPER motivated about this, and working on it 7 days a week! However, this got me thinking about a few things I miss out on when I am here less.
Blogging went by the wayside ... but so did connection!
I was thinking about how when steem is low, that also makes me put blogging on a much lower priority than when it is high. And then I start missing something even more important to me than money! The cool connections that we make here. The friendships. The creative growth. So here is a blog post about my own thought process regarding art, friendship, connection, and Steemit...
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Chasing dollars puts my art on hold..
Art is a process. Sometimes I spend a day creating something that I end up not liking at all. I learn a LOT in the process, and I thoroughly enjoy the process, but the "product" of those hours is financially worthless. Creative people struggle with this problem a lot. If the product ends up being worthless too many times, and you are dependent on that income, then it can be very daunting to set forth to do creative exploration. The exploration is so incredibly important. The process is so important but there is no dollar value on process. Hence less art is made when someone is struggling to pay their bills.
So I am caught in this catch-22 right now. I am trying to increase my hourly "value" with my other skills, so that I can buy time, so that I can have freedom to explore creativity in the natural, organic way that I need.
However! I sink into a depression if I cant make art for too long. So I am paying attention to this, and want to keep balancing it out when I can. I am not complaining about the lack of making art but just trying to illustrate how it is affected by my other priorities.
(If you like my art, then please consider supporting my other endeavors to raise money and thrive financially, because then you will see more of my art, music, and so on.)
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Introducing Dflo DLive streaming !
Monday coach Dflo show....
I was going to just do language coaching on DLive, but I was feeling constrained by that. So what I am really going to do is create basically a radio show / podcast hour. I will show up each week, and talk about life advice, psychology, speaking english.. being an english coach... creativity, the brain, music... really everything that I am interested in. Please join me, or listen when you can!
Upcoming
I will also be streaming other times to experiment with other ideas. @clayboyn keeps asking me to read the phone book because he likes my voice haha --- while I might not read the phone book, I do want to play with some reading ideas. I might read from books to help you sleep, for example. So keep an eye on my blog to catch those. I will take requests!
When crypto is low, lets raise the connection!
I also had a great conversation with @vincentnijman the other day where we came up with some nice ideas for connecting over Steemit and Dlive. We are working on an idea to create some more ways to connect and hang out across the globe. Its one thing to skim a post like this, its another thing to hear each others voices, and its another thing entirely to actually get to hang out together. So we are brainstorming comfortable, easy ways to foster more connection here. Because that is what many of us really get out of Steemit, is these beautiful friendships and connections. So stay tuned for that too!
Thank you MSP and PAL for giving me a delegation!!!!!
This week I won a 1000sp delegation from the Minnow Support Project! I have to say, again here it is not even the SP as much as it is the fact that my friends have faith in me, and wanted to vote for me, and are just so encouraging and supportive. This means so much to me to be "seen and understood" here, even though I am a big weirdo, and even though being a single mom entrepreneur is taking all my bandwidth. Because of this Delegation, I will amp up my efforts to be more active daily again, and I will be looking for great stuff to upvote and comment on too! So please do engage with me in the comments. Don't ask me for upvotes but like, really just ... lets make friends. I love that aspect of Steeemit, and I do want to upvote my friends and use this delegation to pay the support forward. But in a real way!
Thanks to everyone who keeps supporting and encouraging me even though I am so absent lately. It really does matter, and I appreciate all the great influence you have all had on my life!!!
xo,
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