Never thought of Business as an art form have you?
Well think again.
What is Business?
- a person’s regular occupation, profession, or trade.
- the practice of making one’s living by engaging in commerce.
What is Art?
Art: 1. the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.
2. the various branches of creative activity, such as painting, music, literature, and dance.
If business is a person’s regular profession and art is the expression of human creative skill and imagination in visual form then that would mean business can also be an art form.
Further, the definition above states, “typically in a visual form such as…”, which does not specify and thus infers that it can be any visual form, for which business definitely is visual.
And if we take the second half of the first definition for art above where it states, “producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power”. I, along with many of you reading this, would agree that a company none other than Apple demonstrates beauty in it’s products’ simplicity, elegance, and intuitiveness.
On the same token, Apple invokes emotion, whether good or bad, for there are die hard fans and equally die hard opposers. There’s businesses like Disney, which for my son, children across the globe and myself, embodies beauty, fantasy, joy, and love. When I think back to my childhood and two visits to Disney World, boy I can honestly say for me, at that time, Disney was “the happiest place on Earth.” My family and I have forged memories we will cherish forever and never forget.
Nike, inspires athletes and non athletes around the world to “Just Do It.” When we put on a piece of Nike gear, it’s almost as if we put on a piece of armor. We are ready for battle and will overcome any challenge or obstacle we are faced with.
In my own entrepreneurial endeavors, I use and showcase my creativity, imagination and gifts with the world.
For example, with my Invincilete Sports Academy business I infuse 25 years of Sports playing and coaching experience with the students within my various programs. It is quite literally “me” – my love, my heart, my soul, my body and my mind that I am giving to each and every student. You can call it “a labor of love.” In addition, I have often experimented with different training methodologies to see what may work for each individual student, for everyone is different and possesses different styles of learning, dribbling, shooting, and so on. On the marketing side, there have been many different experiments we have run in order to provide value and bring more students within our program.
Now, do I make money from this business? You bet. However, I am blessed and eternally grateful to have the opportunity to weave my passion, my calling with the need to make a living.
Why do I feel grateful? Well, one can only truly feel grateful if they have experienced the other side, meaning a life of boredom, depression, strong dislike for a previous vocation. And boy have I experienced that side.
For my online writing business I am gifted by The Lord, God, Higher Power, The Divine or whomever or whatever you believe in to pour the deepest depths of my mind, body and soul into words.
I am afforded a chance of a lifetime to be able to share my thoughts, beliefs, feelings, emotions with others.
Through writing, I am able to connect with my subconscious mind and the deepest part of who I am and share that “self actualized” inner being with my brothers and sisters.
If you can tell through my words, writing for me feels divine and other worldly. For me, it is my heaven or blissfulness on Earth.
And through writing I am blessed to distill my seminal work into words that I can impact my fellow brothers and sisters in this present generation and leave behind to help our future generation on their journey.
In closing, I am eternally grateful for even having the opportunity and ability to bring to life my dreams, my calling, my art into my work or “business”.
I understand business and art are separate from one another. I, after all, have many other creative artistic endeavors separate from business. However, for this constant wrestle of whether business and art can coexist, I would like to put that stress inducing notion to rest.
They can and have proven to successfully coexist for thousands of years.
So, let us continue this dance between business and art and be freed to both express our deepest artistic creative imagination while making a living and an impact.