Chantelle Tibbs - The 5 Step Cure: For The Broke Artist Syndrome

The 5 Step Cure

For The Broke Artist Syndrome

Chantelle Tibbs

The 5 Step Cure

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I truly feel it is dangerous for only certain kinds of people to be encouraged to make money. I also find it interesting that Artists, and Creative Minded and Giving people (people who give back even when they have nothing to give) are often discouraged from abundance when they are precisely the kinds of people the world needs to make money. If you are an artist, you may have heard a lot of opinions and phrases floating around like Broke Artist, or Starving Artist. Maybe your parents told you to get a real major or a real job. Maybe your friend blew their paycheck on eating out and drinking and decided that money was evil because they dont know how to manage it. SO they dis empowered you by expecting you to model your life around their beliefs.

I dont believe being an artist means you have to be starving. And I dont think money is evil. I believe it is leverage, Im sure an evil person can have more power with money. But Im not concerned with evil people or any other kind of failure for that matter. My focus right now is on you. Whatever brought you here in this moment I hope can take you a little further and keep you open and alert for the rest of this book.

Weve all heard so many of the same things for so long. The 5 Step Cure For The Broke Artist Syndrome is just a different perspective. So thanks for listening or reading and I hope you enjoy:)

Are you cool with your money situation? If the answer is YES, then forward this to someone else who is not. Because you are doing well! If It Aint broke, dont fix it. Creativity is a fine thing, but we should save it for our art. When you are already sitting on the recipe for success I wouldnt stray too far away from what is already working for you. If you are NOT cool with your money situation, thats ok. This is where it gets fun. Were going to fix that by getting really specific, so Id grab a pen and paper, or take a mental note.Because this is an important question to ask yourself. WHERE DO YOU WANT TO BE? You cant hit a goal you dont see. So get REALLY specific with this. I want to be able to live off of my art. meh The Right Stuff By my 27th Birthday, April 15th 2010 at 2pm, I want to be making a $12,000 per month net profit off of selling my Jewelry.

Now that we know there is something that could stand to improve. Lets identify the actual problem. This part is a lot easier than you might think. The reason you are not where you want to be is because there is something you dont know. T. Harv Eker, in Secrets of the Millionaire Mind describes this as being exactly what he needed to hear when he heard it from a friend of his fathers. No shit, Chantelle. You are probably thinking. But humor me for a second, because I am going to go over how we can fix that, But First I need you to be 110% open. Because the sad fact is, you may have been hearing everything you needed to hear to take it to the next step in your personal, spiritual or financial situation. But right now, you are not the right person to hear it.
Also, I want to point out that we are going to discuss goals and plans, but in no way am I asking you to be in a place where you are waiting for some future event in time to save you. Embrace where you are with money now, just reading this and being open is the first step. Money is lovely, its one of the many aspects of abundance but even more important than money is the joy that is accessible to you by being here right now. This presence is what will help you in your journey.
So now

The only thing in your way is YOU, Captain. FABULOUS News. Because no one has more control over YOU than YOU do. So YAY:)

Its Time To Face Your Money Attitude.

Is It Cool if I Share Some Childhood Stories With You? Im gonna assume you said yes, sothanks! When I was 10 years old my family was poorer than ever. We were living with my late Grandmother on a farm in a small town in New Jersey, Deerfield. My father got a chance to speak at Georgetown University and he was waiting on a check for $500. I remember my mother would come to pick my brother, Chris and I up from school and my eyes would widen with hope as I asked, Did the check come yet? She shook her head for a week. Meanwhile my parents fighting grew more intense. And everyone in the house was on edge and full of stress. Then one day, I asked and my moms eyes brightened and her entire face lit up. We got the check! You know those ghetto no frills labels they had back in the day? They were just black and white with what was in the can or package written in black ink. All of those boring labels were gone! The house was full of colorful labels. My mom and dad were nice to one another. I think that was the first time I really truly was aware of the fact that I loved money.

Then the money went away. The label colors went back to black and white, and my parents started fighting again. So at a very early age I knew I loved money but for some reason I would never have it. It never stayed around. And that made me very sad.

FLASH FORWARD 7 YEARS I was 17 years old. I had just moved from New Jersey to Los Angeles. I made an older friend at the time. (Im totally putting my hands up in quotes since you cant see me.) He was in his thirties. He worked in Television as a writer. As you can guess, my family was BROKE. Nothing unusual. I was really hungry. Went over my friends house. And I admitted I was starving. There are many things he could have done. He could have offered me food, he could have taken me out to eat, he could have done nothing, he could have given me money to go buy food, he could have loaned me money and given me a talk about money management. He did none of those things. Instead he asked me strip for him. The longer you strip for me? The more money you make. I wont even touch you, promise. Before that moment. I was just sad that I could not have money. Now, he added anger to the mix. From that moment on, I believed that Money wasnt for me. And it was because of people like him. Older, white men who hoarded all the wealth. And as a young woman of color I would have to degrade and exploit myself if I wanted to have any money. So I said, NO THANKS! to money.

I was VERY passionate about my beliefs. But they were based off of sheer emotions, with only two incidents I could call upon as my evidence or proof. I was DEAD WRONG about Money. I was also VERY wrong about most older white men. And when it came time for me to learn about money management, trading options and Investing in the Stock Market, and Business and Marketing, I came to call upon the knowledge of a few AMAZING older, white men who were excited that someone different was taking an interest in these subjects. I HAD to get rid of my old beliefs in order to move on. If I was still prejudiced against men, or if I was still under the impression that money was a fly by night thing that would never happen to me again, I would never have opened myself up to hear what my mentors had to say. And I would have somehow subconsciously sabotaged any money that I did make. Because our beliefs are VERY comfortable. And if we have to challenge them, things could get rocky.

Let me give you a peak at the cheat sheet. Here. When you are comfortable, you are NOT growing. You want to take things to the next level in your life, you will get mighty uncomfortable. So have fun with it as much as you can.