When I was young,
I believed the myth
about the starving artist.
I believed
artists weren’t wealthy.
They lived in a garret
and had to rely
on the mercy of others
to feed themselves.
I grew up dirt poor.
I didn’t eat every day.
I was sometimes homeless.
That lifestyle held no appeal to me.
So I went into business
and I LOVED it.
I helped create new products
and I saved and invested my income.
When I had done
what I had wanted to do
in new product development
and
I had amassed enough investments
to pay my basic bills,
I switched careers
and focused on writing.
Only to discover
that many writers earn more
than new product developers.
They are business owners
and often those businesses
are VERY lucrative.
I had put limits on myself
that didn’t exist.
“We can’t do anything
about the limitations of physics,
and we can never do enough
to change the limitations of our culture.
But we can begin today
on changing the internal limits
we place on ourselves.”
Are you placing limits
on yourself
or your business
that only exist in your mind?