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Home Based Business and Self Awareness
Entrepreneurs everywhere dream of operating a lucrative home based business. Artists may work from home, but often struggle to blend the business and creative components of their work.
The one thing in common to any home based business is, without the proper systems, it can be overwhelming. Home based business owners are notorious for trying to keep track of so many details that some things slip through the cracks. I’m not even talking about their business or franchise, I’m talking about their SELF.
When you run a home based business, it’s difficult to establish boundaries and the first thing you put on the back burner is yourself. Rivky’s Art Workshop™ has gone to great lengths to systematize and automate as much of their business opportunity as possible so this isn’t a concern for Rivky’s Art Workshop™ participants.
In fact, as an added benefit, whether you choose for your art center to be a home based business or an away from home business, the nature of the work assures one thing that will happen automatically. You’ll become more aware of yourself. Ultimately, you’ll find that you actually nurture yourself and reenergize yourself because it’s another one of those unavoidable benefits of art.
Let me explain.
Looking inside yourself, you see math problems and social issues. You see what’s on for dinner and what clothes you can wear tonight. Life gets complicated and takes over all of our thoughts at times, especially when we don’t keep ourselves in check. Stopping to reflect helps you shift from your busy, digital left-brained way of thinking to your creative, imaginative right brain where a great part of yourself often goes left unnoticed. Art can really help when you finally realize how important it is.
If you have trouble finding a place or a time to reflect, it is probably because you need to restructure your life so that it is a priority. When people take time out of life to reflect, they often view it as a flexible time that they can use for something else if they have to adjust their time schedule in any way. But, you can’t let that be the case in your life. Once you have restructured your life to allow for time to reflect, you need to keep to that schedule and never take that time away from yourself.
If you have a hard time reflecting and you’re starting to view it as a waste of time, look at art as the avenue of approach. Pick up a pencil and a sketch pad. Grab a paint brush and a canvas. Then, ask yourself what is most important to you. You can’t come up with anything?
“Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to a painter, ‘You don’t know anything.’” ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Don’t stay paralyzed for too long. Start working on something. Take a few strokes. Look at what you’ve started. Work with it and make it into something. Before long, you’ll find yourself working toward a finished project, something straight from you to the canvas. That in itself reveals something about you.
Look at what you’ve accomplished in your time of reflection. Now you have something to think about. What subject did you choose to work on for your artwork? Why did you choose that subject over all the other possibilities out there? Once you’ve gone through this process once, you will start to learn so much more about yourself than you ever were able to learn before.
Art teaches us how to reflect on ourselves. Art has a duality in its teaching and it’s quite phenomenal. We get to know ourselves much better just by learning art and then we learn more about ourselves through art. That’s how much of an impact art can have on our lives.
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