Hooray for Guest Post Wednesday and the fantabulous Kirsty!
Want to know why I opened an online shop for my art and then a consulting service just a few weeks later?
I’d been working on changing my money mindset for months. I’d heard that setting up lots of different income streams was a pretty smart thing to do. Plus Catherine had been brow-beating me gently nudging me into consulting.
But none of those are the real reasons.
No, the real reason is that I’d started describing myself as “an artist & purveyor of mad obsessive projects’ and the pedantic part of my brain (which is most of it!) was niggling at me. Every single time I used the phrase, a little voice piped up, “hey, you can’t call yourself a purveyor unless you’re selling something…”
Now, I adore the word ‘purveyor’. It makes me think of Victorian merchants with handlebar moustaches and fabulous old-fashioned adverts a page long.
photo credit: makelessnoise
I didn’t want to take it out of my description. Purveyor worked. It made people laugh. It was memorable, catchy and I loved it.
Clearly the only reasonable solution was to start selling something as quickly as possible.
So I did, even though I wasn’t quite ready for either endeavour.
Words have power. The way we describe ourselves can change our behaviour. What wonderful title can you give yourself that you’ll be forced to live up to? Tell us in the comments!
Kirsty Hall is an artist & purveyor of mad obsessive projects with a free resource page to help artists and other creative people to get online.