Living as a creative , I’ve never really had a true 9–5, and I’ve never been able to save up for things in the way people with a steady income often can. That being said, I have all the things I need around me to be content. I don’t crave a lot of things, and every day I’m grateful for the way this weird creative life is turning out. I was thinking about digital currency the other day , and the way my mind works around money.
Read More**Thought bubble: Imagination, prosperity and digital currency.** Living as a creative , I’ve never really had a true 9–5, and I’ve never been able to save up for things in the way people with a steady income often can. That being said, I have all the things I need around me to be content. I don’t crave a lot of things, and every day I’m grateful for the way this weird creative life is turning out. I was thinking about digital currency the other day , and the way my mind works around money. It took me back to being a little kid at my dad’s panel shop , counting out the notes and coins for the employees and putting them into their pay packets. To this day, when I’m thinking about buying something, I imagine the actual cash paying for it. I don’t picture a number sitting in an online account. And then I realised something. Most of the things that have come into my life, I imagined first. Without my imagination, I don’t think I would have done half of what I’ve done. Maybe that’s part of the reason I still prefer using cash. There’s something tangible about it. An idea becomes a possibility, the resources arrive, and then that possibility becomes real. Here’s a concrete example. I came back from Australia in the mid ’90s feeling a bit down and very broke, and decided I didn’t want to be a muso anymore. At the time, I had this idea that artists had to be poor to be any good. I called my mum and she asked me what I wanted to do. I said, “I’ve never travelled or done an OE. It would be great if I could get a Ford ad or something, so I could raise the money to travel while I think about what I’m going to do next.” A week later, I was offered the opportunity to perform in a Ford TVC. I said, “Let me write the tune too.” And the agency said, “Yeah, OK.” A few months later, I flew to Europe. (*TVC link below) Call it imagination, intention, manifestation, coincidence, whatever language works for you. But I’ve noticed this pattern throughout my life: **I can see something before it becomes a reality.** And perhaps that’s part of what worries me about children growing up with money that is almost entirely digital. Cash makes resources tangible. You can hold it, count it, divide it, save it and exchange it for something you’ve imagined having or doing. There’s a physical connection between the idea and the means of making it happen. Maybe teaching kids about cash isn’t only about financial literacy. Maybe it’s also about helping them understand the relationship between **imagination, intention and resources.** If we can imagine where we want to go and have some idea of what we want to do when we get there somehow, sometimes, the rest follows. **Do you have a story about something you imagined first… and then somehow the money or opportunity followed?** Here us a link to the ad... I did the stunt driving... just sayin' . . https://youtube.com/watch?v=A-gctVNi_uk #CreativeLife #Imagination #FinancialLiteracy #DigitalCurrency #MoneyMindset