Happy Thanksgiving!

 One of the coolest thing about getting your work out there is positive feedback from some really neat people; people that you’d hoped you’d reach with your work. I received the nicest E Mail from an artist this morning about The Affluent Artist and he mentioned how much the concept of the book resonated with [...]

Carry On II

I’ve had great response to my last post, Carry On, so I wanted to share this poem with you, the one referred to in the Brian Tracy video:
Carry On
Robert Service

It’s easy to fight when everything’s right,
And you’re mad with the thrill and the glory;
It’s easy to cheer when victory’s near,
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Carry On!

 As a financial guy, I’ve been living through the equivalent of a war for the last few months, seeing client assets and confidence get destroyed like Hitler’s Berlin. Sleepless nights, increased liquor store bills and a new affection for the blues are getting old. I wrote a book about not being a starving artist so I sure [...]

"Entrepreneur Hawking his Book"

  I wanted to write about an artist whose work I admire on line and contacted her to ask if I could interview her and display her work. Somehow, she thought I was the literary equivalent of an Amway salesman trying to get her to buy my book on becoming an “Affluent Artist”. Without reading any [...]

More Amazing Artists…

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 One of the blessings of being in The Affluent Artist Business is the people you meet on the journey. Sterling McVay is an artist and musician who is committed to helping Greensburg, Kansas recover from a devastating F5 tornado, he is passionate about the planet and making positive change. Sterling wants to use his art [...]

Artists and the New Internet Renaissance

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In the Affluent Artist, I suggested that all Michelangelo needed was the internet, that the Medici, his patrons, were his only alternative to poverty. I wondered how many other talented artists throughout the years have never been discovered, how many giants never saw the light of day. So, every once in a while, as I [...]

Corporate Creatives

Creative people in a corporate setting face a constant challenge to stay creative and be visionaries when the corporate bean counters and “compliance” types feel the need to sit on you, so as to defend their own existence. The bean counters and compliance people like to frame it a tad differently , they like to [...]

From the other side of the aisle: Grace

 Most guys who do what I do for a living, take care of people’s money, are going to default to the Republican side of the ballot, kind of like you’d expect a social worker to fall to the Democratic side. So, I’ve been fielding some frustrated and angry client calls today with quite a bit [...]