To fully summon and focus their muse, many creative people work in isolation. Then they also attempt to tackle the paperwork essential to making a viable financial living alone. Some creative people lack the skills and time to establish and maintain the systems and rituals that create order. They miss deadlines, lose address and telephone numbers of viable clients, and are unable to locate the documents needed to apply for grants or file taxes.
So much to do! Creative people might know that sending thank you cards are vital to attracting abundance, but never get around to sending them. Unopened bills clog the opening to efficient, pleasurable, and prosperous lives as creative people and entrepreneurs. Business correspondence goes unanswered. They long for a manager or lover who will take this mess off their hands.
When overwhelmed by paper and the details of growing your life as a creative person with ideas to develop and clients to pursue or serve, hire help! You might protest that you can’t afford to hire an administrative assistant. But actually, if you want to prosper, you can’t afford not to hire someone to help organize and process their papers.
It’s not as costly to hire help as you might think. You can start by hiring someone for one day a week from three to five hours and get something meaningful accomplished. The suggested minimum pay is $8 to $12 for a minimum of three or four hours—that’s $24 to $48 a week. Consistent repetition can be more important than large amounts of time spent only every now and then. Rhythm creates the efficiency, productivity, and the preparation that entices Lady Luck. In only one hour you can manage to sort mail or slides, draft two letters, add 50 names to your mailing list, or gather all the mail and paper stuff into one location so that you can see your way clear.
The process of moving paper is still the method by which business gets done. Paper represents opportunities to be seized and decisions to be made. Piles of paper scattered here and there signal sloppy thinking and unfinished business. Paper is power. Adhering to a regular schedule of taking the action your papers call for, will over time lead to dominion.
The results of working continually over time are accumulative. Your results grow exponentially—according to the full amount invested. The work gets easier and easier—the results come ever more quickly.
Investing time and money in administrating your life as a creative person is empowering. Future decisions and actions are an outgrowth of your perception that you are powerful.
This article is dedicated to I’Shana Daranée Turner who keeps me sane by helping me with my paper work and creating order in my art studio.
Thank you for the reminder of “Paper Power” and how one great aspect it signifies is acquiring help as needed AND elevating the creative growth showing you GOT helped. Whether we create, build, signify in isolation, in pairs, in groups it must be efficient and organized!
Ummmm, were you looking at my desk when you wrote the message about paper(hahahahaha). I figured out long ago that I was allergic to paper, even wrote a song about it. Thanks for the timely reminder about paper power. It was well written and informative. Now, back to finding that telephone bill (smile). Love & Light, Ayesha
Thanks for putting into words what my spine could not. i’ve got to get that high school senior i’ve been dreaming about to come ’round heah!