If you are like most people who are existing from payday to payday, you don't have a lot of money to invest in a full-time business. No need to worry! Just use your favorite hobby as your business base and grow from there!

There's no telling where you'll be at 2 or 3 years down road. Perhaps you can even tell your present boss to "take that job and shove it." Wouldn't that be great?

Using your present hobby or favorite pastime as your business base has many benefits. Why? Because ANY business you decide to become involved in should be doing something you LOVE, something you believe in, something that you would work at NO MATTER what income it would generate.

This will give you stamina to see your business through beginning hard times and times when there is more work to do than you can handle. We all know feeling of doing a job that we hate to do.

With jobs we dislike there is no way we can give it 110% of our abilities because we procrastinate getting through it and just want to get it over with. That's why it is vitally important to dearly love product or service you have chosen to build your business around.

1. Purpose

If communication is main purpose of art disciplines, in what ways can one make it proficient? And if it is artist’s passion and raison d’être to express, how can he/she convey his/her message so that it will be perceived as accurately as possible and received as fully as may be? It has been said before that communication is not what is being said, but result of what is being said. Mastering a skill, be it drawing, writing, sculpting, painting, dancing, acting, etc, is a beginning in optimizing receptivity of what is being said. Although crucial, such mastery is not enough; it has to be fueled by heart, which is real transmitter of message, enabled by its devotion to a higher cause. In effect, heart (heART) knows that “This is not about me!”

2. Order

It appears that artists are repelled by thought of order, and fascinated enough by chaos they have elected it as their domain. Yet in scientific terms, isn’t chaos part of order? Why therefore settling for just a tiny part of vastness? Maybe another reason why order is so unacceptable to current artist mind is that it is traditionally associated to male and linear behavior. Interesting interpretation, as order was in ancient time revolving around keeper of hearth, a feminine role honored as most beautiful role of all. Returning to it was more than a goal to every hunter, it was a true inspiration and replenishing of his strength. Could it be that artists, by denying themselves order, also reject nurturing, and vitalizing properties of order? The practicality of order (finding stuff, gaining in productivity) joins to a spirituality of order (going from freeing physical space to mental space, and from shame and isolation to a greater social impact.)

3. Absence of self The question here is who is speaking? Is it mature leader whose creative ability brings a solution, or is it wounded child who monopolizes attention? How important is it to dress differently, or obey an atypical social code? One can easily confuse freedom with rebellion of independence, which actually aims at dissociating and refusing to be dependent on anyone. In end, this is not freedom, only a guise for freedom. Such response is contrary to purpose of art, to communicate and therefore build bridges. Being different cannot be issue, being authentic is! When connectedness is created, it won’t trigger fear or rejection of those who follow their own drummer. Just like it makes sense to start with a blank canvas, it makes sense to relate to another after one has emptied heart from any childhood pain. And although not being absorbed by societal sleep and indoctrination is essential to art, successfully delivering naturally follows simplicity (absence of self) and clarity (order)!

4. Innovation

What does it take to be innovative? Innovation requires that an individual move beyond his or her comfort zone, and be willing to fail. Thus it starts in an act of faith, and in a relaxation. Mind power is creativity: I create more of “that” by placing my attention on it. Therefore knowing how I can better control my attention becomes very important. Much has been said on power of positive thinking, and little on its connection to relaxation and trust. If I trust my next play will be most inspired, and choose to place my attention on that thought, it will be. Where there is trust, there is confidence, because something else, greater than me, is allowed to come in. Very possibly worrying about an outcome, and trying too hard prevents solution to spontaneously occur. Just like a womb needs to be receptive to be fertilized, mind has to be free of possession of negative thinking (anxiety, blame, shame, depression, obsession) to be able to in-novate. The absence of conditioned self, doubter, skeptic, worrier, hard worker, will then “close deal,” which explains how great geniuses always have their best ideas in most unexpected situations, e.g. brushing their teeth, buying groceries. That is precisely time when they are trying so little they allow another way of looking at it…

5. Commitment