Thank Heavens For Crowdfunder by Kira Kenley

Posted on May 31, 2013 by Kira Kenley

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18 Kira Kenley shares her creative dilemmas and decisions every Friday. You can read her earlier posts here

The project is accepted and goes live. I am delighted beyond belief. This is such a great way for artists to generate the funds necessary to bring their creative dreams to life. For many years, I have been stopped financially or at least slowed but now I can generate the cash to create in an entrepreneurial way.

I am beginning to understand that if I want to survive as an indie artist, I need to adopt a business approach and look at each creative work as an enterprise. All those years working as an accountant and it takes the creative world to get me thinking like an entrepreneur. Indeed, the irony is not lost upon me!

As I work towards fulfilling my heart’s desire, I am finding the skills I learned in my last career most useful. These were skills, which felt suffocating when I was operating in the wrong place with energy that did not become me. In those times, it felt like I was plodding yet these days it feels like I am floating on top of something that has as its main focus an intention to enable me to create my life. It is a wonderful feeling and I am ever grateful.

Crowdfunding is a truly amazing tool and feels like one of those pure and inspired ideas, born out of creation itself. Day one and unbelievably 11% is pledged by the day’s end. I am ecstatic and it would be all too easy to sit back and wait based on the assumption that I have done my bit.

I recognize this energy, it is what stops me on the publicity front every time. A strong part of me would like to believe that my role ends once the work exists. Of course, there is more to be done. I need to introduce the work to the public, to be its voice and give it the best possible chance, and I need to do this without getting lost in my negative beliefs about self-promotion.

Because I was brought up in an Irish family where self-acknowledgement of any sort was rewarded with a clean rap on the side of the head, I often perish under the exposure of self-publicity. But perhaps I can adopt a different mind-set.

This is my life, created moment to moment and when I do what brings me joy it inevitably brings me closer to the energy that makes everything possible. In this most nurturing of spaces, I can create. I can contribute. I breathe life into whatever I do and by asking for help, I give others the opportunity to be involved and to add to the reservoir.

That is the deeper beauty of Crowdfunder, it means that I can ask for what I need, using the resources I have to generate it, and get others involved. Ah, again back to this ultimate performance. The life I lead. Thank you ladies and gentlemen for listening, hearing and helping. Thank you from the whole of this universal heart!

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