fakeNaked Show 2
Well, it's about time! The next installment of fakeNaked is here for you. Shane Magee of Fake Republic and I are going to try to do the fakeNaked show weekly. So stay tuned. These are totally unrehearsed sessions. This is the way Shane and I often converse. We never know what we're going to talk about or the direction it's going to go in. Today's talk, mostly about money, was totally unexpected. Actually, we're not sure what to think about it. But there you have it: naked and not fake. It's the real David Hayward and Shane Magee.
The first part of your talk is really about life work in general. When survival is part of the creative equation it becomes difficult to determine if what I do is completely honest. Maybe that is one reason that Jesus did not have a steady job and left himself pretty much unattached to any means of income.
I looked at it like this when I was making friends. I could either be myself and attract people who liked myself or I could act in a way that I thought people would like and attract people who liked that particular act.
In my work I came to the realization that I wasn’t doing what I wanted. I just left and began to create what I did want. In time this attracted clients and business that wanted what I had to give. I found that when I was doing something out of joy, rather than obligation, the quality of what I produced and its value to other people increased dramatically. And if I kept it simple, it left me a lot of freedom.
While listining to the two of you talk in the beginning, it was very much reminiscent of days in the institutionalized church. Marketing yourselves to get your message out. I believe if God wants someone to go to your sites, or offer you speaking gigs, he will make it happen. With or without you. I guess that is what I feel is different about our movement. We try to follow God, and allow him to lead. Instead of us trying to do things for him. Get our beliefs out there for people to see the way. Maybe that is just where God has ME. Maybe he is asking you to do something else.
Nice to see your smiling faces again. Great topic! I have been thinking and learning about this in the past few years as well. As a creative person, I find that I do not fit into this 9 – 5 career-oriented working world all that well, and I have ceased trying to. I was talking to a fellow writer about success a few years ago and we realised that subconsciously, we were buying into the myth that being published equals success. I changed my attitude then and there. To me, being a success as a writer is telling a story that is worth telling. Who listens and hears…well, that is not my primary responsibility. I try to speak clearly and consistently and make my words available, but marketing is not what I am called to; I am called to tell the story. To quote John: he who has ears to hear…
Another thing I am learning just in the past few months is that I must value what I do and who I am. If I don’t, how will anyone else? All this effort at writing and creating is precious and worth something and merits devotion and development and discipline (hey, that sounds like a nifty outline for a self-help book). It is my responsibilty to be generous with my abilities, and then I must in turn give people the chance to be generous to me as well. Ultimately, I look to God to supply everything that I need. I cannot put my expectations in people’s response as that is setting my hope far too low.
I agree with Richard: if we are truly ourselves and do not hold back in our passion for the things that are important to us, we will come away with a purer artform, personality, story, etc. and this will be more attractive than any clever scheme to get people to come to us.
Great satire of the inner workings of the liberal mind. “I need money but money is really icky.” “I’m a feminist.” Funny stuff!
ah… todd…. another with sarcasm. welcome!