Get Your Own Results!

Oops, I tried to copy Craig Garber's lively email about the pitfalls of using conventional wisdom - which boil down to the observation that using conventional methods will only get you conventional results -  but somehow the electronic elves are not cooperating (go to www.thekingofcopy.com for his mktg. advice) And look for his slant on conventional wisdom in his latest emails....

Honestly, conventional results may not be what you WANT.  I surely wouldn't want the conventional result of my frugality to mean I had to be a frump! I want unconventional ways of being stylish and really getting what I want out of life without "selling my soul to the company store."

Not that I am against commerce.  Hardly.  I am a freelancer and have to sell myself all the time! But mostly I manage to do it on my own terms....even if that means eschewing dept. stores and dept. store prices. 

I am happily wearing a nice warm sweatshirt I got from a friend for whom it was too small.  Would it be any warmer if I had paid $30 for it?  Of course not.  Would anything be "better" if I had paid full price for it?  Nope.  So I always try to be unconventional and look for the other way to go about things....

My husband & I spent a delightful day last weekend playing Santa and Mrs. Claus at the Channel Islands Harbor holiday celebration, as we have been doing for the last 5 years - and we got PAID for it, to boot..  I really do enjoy my public music making and make some $ out of it to support my purchase of music, instruments, costumes, equipment, etc.  We do make the best music we can wherever we are - and strive to maintain professionalism without being stiff or stuffy or depriving ourselves of the sheer FUN of it.  So it's a win/win situation.

I have to admit that I didn't quite understand the message of the Oprah Winfrey holiday production on TV last night - the one about the alcoholic ballplayer talking with the ghost of his dead mother (Ellen Burstyn)?  If he did indeed LOVE the game, then it would, of course, have been worthwhile to spend his time playing at the highest level he could manage.  Looking at it all from that point of view, was it a waste to spend time in the minor leagues?  No, I don't think so.  Some of my artistic activities might look "minor" to outsiders, but to insiders they are quite otherwise - because they know know hard it is to even get THERE.  And the game is only really fun if you are playing it full tilt with others who are doing the same!  Hey, I would leap at the chance to participate in the equivalent of the world series in my acting or musical endeavors!

Sure, there are trade-offs - there always are - but if you can make them with good conscience you are "following your bliss" - and what's wrong with that?

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