Truth be told, I’d have to do a little more reading myself, to make sure I’m explaining it correctly. I get it enough to feel cool using it on my own stuff, but I’m always hemming and hawing when it comes to explaining it to clients.

That is AWESOME news about the clients! Yeah, it’s scary, but it’s the only way. Otherwise, you’re working for The Man, only The Man is you and not even kicking in for 2 weeks plus holidays and bennies. Eff that crap. As my friend, LH, sez, I don’t want to work for myself until I can treat myself better than my old (bad) bosses did. She has a point, has LH

So I played ostrich neck and… well, there we are.

AND, I still have to say thank you for the post about the “help is everywhere” thingy and the comment about charging twice as much, losing half the clients, and making money more efficiently because of it. See: me, 2008. Holy crap. It’s scary as hell and so wonderful. Already. And, fun fact, casting a $20M movie is just as much work as casting a $2.5M movie. Go figure!

Love you, CoCo. Cheese plate awaits! :) XO

And I’ll put that CCL post into the hopper. There’s a lot of good posts about CC, but somehow, I’ve had trouble relating to them. Never hurts to have one more voice in support of a good cause!

p.s. Yes, please do a post on the Creative Commons license, I was wondering about that and would be interested in learning more.

I am always willing to pay my fair share of the electricity, water and gas I use but damn, why should I put the President of the eclectric company’s kids thru Harvard when I my kids will be lucky if they get to go to Community College? I USED to get all worked up about that until I found my 49 year old neighbor starving and dying from cancer.

She was 86 lbs when I found her..filthy, starving and in pain. I made sure I went over every day and brought her food, took her to Dr appointments and bathed her. She died three weeks later. I still feel guilty about being selfish and still wonder, had I found her sooner, if she would have lived a little longer? I was glad that I could be there for her in her last weeks on earth. It kind of feels like an honor.

Now when I sit down to pay bills, I am grateful I can afford to do it. There are many people that can’t even afford to feed themselves. I am so grateful that I am not one of them.

Landry - Another energy giver! And I like the idea of all things we give being energetic extensions of ourselves, or just us as conduits, keeping the flow of energy going.

I love the CC, don’t you? (And I know you do, since your stuff is all CC licensed, too.) All the pix I use here from Flickr (well, in the past couple of years) are CC licenses. Gives them exposure and makes the creative effort collaborative, plus way more interesting than if I was providing them myself. I should do a post on that.

In addition, I’m SO excited that your blog is covered by a Creative Commons license. What a great way to give.

Namaste

Then, a friend who is studying to be a financial counselor suggested that I think of money as energy, and that resonated with me and changed my whole penny-pinching outlook. Somehow I was much more comfortable with the idea of giving energy! The very next day, I excitedly gave a $1 tip at Dunkin’ Donuts and I felt great. With this simple mind-shift, it’s become much easier for me to believe that there is abundance out there for everyone.