Creating Opportunities vs. Going with the Flow

Creating Opportunities vs. Going with the Flow.

Creating Opportunities:

What do I mean by this? Cold calling or emailing business clients, photographers shooting for free to build portfolio, re-scoring existing movie scenes as a composer looking to break into film/tv work, setting up your digital storefront, minting your work as NFT's, and plenty more.

Benefits

• Align with our goals. When we know exactly what we want, creating opportunities to forge towards them is a powerful and impactful way of achieving them.

• Challenges us! Often times creating opportunities looks like us stepping outside our comfort zone in order to manifest and go after what we want.

• Get into Action! Getting in action allows the universe to align with us and our intentions.

Ever notice how when you start planning your vacation you are instantly in a good mood? That is because you are creating an opportunity for yourself, and getting in action shifts our perspective and outlook.

• What about Creating Opportunities for others? This act of providing value to others has ALWAYS ended up creating more opportunities for me at the same time. They may be mental breakthroughs, or more concrete externally.

Going with the Flow:

What do I mean by this? Taking a gig that you aren't sure about, saying yes to any sort of creative work, even if it's not in your "wheelhouse", creating art without a clear idea of the outcome, etc.

Benefits

• Most of us don't have a career path in a creative field that is linear. Embrace unpredictability. My degree from UofM was in Music engineering, but I realized after graduating that studio engineering was NOT the path for me, but I stayed within the music business realm and found so many different gigs that I loved.

• Develop an ability to weather storms better - It's the reason palm trees don't break in hurricanes - they bend and go with the flow.

• We don't know what we don't know. This area contains unlimited potential for growth and opportunity.

• Allows us to try new things. New experiences might lead to new passions and opportunities to grow creatively and in our businesses.