is this dollar amount an nourishing, net-positive exchange to compensate for the energy I'm spending on this person/project?

harnessing creative energy is what makes you an artist — while dedication to serving a higher purpose is what makes you an entrepreneur.

rather than thinking about business as the exchange of value for money , instead, I’m thinking about business as:

a set of systems and processes

to help me honor my creative energy,

shared with purpose in the world.

this is the ultimate purpose around ALL the work I do: the practice of continually asking: how can I show up to this (whatever this is) as my true self?

energy can only be channeled into containers of time.

OFFERING: directing energy into paid containers

when it comes to directing your energy into paid containers - as offerings, services, or products - consider how to make each output of creative energy more efficient.

here are a few questions to consider:

• efficiency: how can this energy feel more efficient and effortless (ie, by riding natural

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in this situation, how do you decide where to spend your time and energy? if you are prioritizing labor-of-hours-for-money, than it'd be hard to silence the voice that clearly distinguishes between "paid work" and "unpaid work" (as if all creative work lives so easily in this binary dichotomy of capitalist-defined worthiness.)

energy, when given in alignment, can be generative. energy invested in the right places can create more energy.

my business exists to help me share my creative gifts -- in service to my values and ethos -- in the most energetically efficient way possible. when my business is in alignment with my energy, it is a generative, self-renewing ecosystem. it is an ecosystem which allows me to rest.