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Home Based Business and Giving Back to the Community
So many people seek out home based business opportunities because they’re tired of the “rat race” and want a change. Working from home is a great opportunity to live life on your own terms. Rivky’s Art Workshop™ is a home based business opportunity (or away-from-home business opportunity if you prefer to go in that direction) with some hidden rewards.
Because you can work from home (or elsewhere!) teaching art to children from 6 to 96 years old – this home based business allows you to reconnect with the human side of your community. It’s what so many people miss when their submerged in the corporate world.
Rivky’s Art Workshop™ participants don’t have to fear becoming reclusive hermits with this business opportunity. Not only do our licensees get the reward of helping others discover new qualities in themselves as they revel in the luxury of a home based business, but they soon realize that the art itself sparks greater connection with the community.
“How can a home based business lead to greater community connection?” you’re probably asking yourself.
It’s one of my favorite “side-effects” of Rivky’s Art Workshop™ and it grows out of teaching art.
I’ll explain.
Art is initiative in essence. It is you taking a canvas and a brush, finding a medium and working through a project, a work of art. This is you without being prompted. Art motivates and you learn a sense of responsibility to your art, to yourself and to those who will view your work. You feel a weight, a challenge. It is welcome, but it is responsibility nonetheless.
Your sense of responsibility grows as you grow into an artist. You see a vision. You follow it through to completion. You look at it and if it doesn’t feel right, you start over. Only one way will make you feel satisfied. And you won’t stop until you get it exactly right. This is a new level of responsibility to yourself that you did not have when your journey began. You worked on a piece of art and if it didn’t come out completely right, it was good enough. Now you feel more concerned about the outcome. It has to be right. You’ll work at it until it is.
Then, another level of responsibility hits you. You feel like you have to give back. Art has given you so much that you feel a need to give to others what art has given to you. You start teaching art to your children. You teach a little bit about art to a few people who want to learn. You might be asked to be a professor at the college or to teach a few courses at the center. Instead of feeling like it’s just another thing to take your time away, you are excited to be involved.
All artists eventually feel the need to give back to the community. You see it when they contribute to institutions, start organizations and take people under their wing. They might even branch off into other arts, but they always come back to their own so that they can offer someone else the same opportunity they were offered when they first began. It’s the cycle. It works. Art makes it happen and every artist feels a sense of responsibility towards it.
Art always starts with a vision. It might be tunnel vision at first. But, it grows as you grow. It becomes as large as you become. You are the only one holding your art back. And once you learn how to open your wings and make things happen for yourself, your vision follows suit. You start to eye your community. You start to see what’s going on in it. And you gain a sense of responsibility towards it. That’s the vision of art. Art won’t let itself just die. It lives through us and it makes itself live on.
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