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Janet Beckers: Hello and welcome Janet Beckers here with your wonderful web tv tip of the
week and I have a special guest here today, Paul Macklin, who is a lovely friend of mine
and also a great member of our community.
Now Paul and I are just talking about this concept of the portfolio lifestyle and I know
it's something that many of you maybe living and not perhaps valuing it. So could you define
what is the portfolio lifestyle?
Paul Macklin: Yeah, well I mean, there's a lot in our generation that are moving into
a situation where they're doing more than what they might have done in one job, say
20 years, 30 years ago, my folio had one job all of his life. So he really have his family
and his work and that was his life. Increasingly people are looking for different avenues to
fulfill who they are and to earn their income and they provide for their family.
So in my case we run a corporate organization called amazing people that helps organizations
to develop their people and to achieve their business results through people.
Janet Beckers: So, that's corporate
Paul Macklin: That's corporate. In addition to that, in the last couple of weeks, we've
began to shift their focus from corporate to include people in the world who want to
make a difference.
Amazing people is always been based on it's inspiring, transform the world now we've realized
we want to do it with those people who have come to a point in their life where they said,
"I really want to live a legacy, I want to do something that impacts somebody out of
themselves" know what I mean? But then in addition to that I have a passion which always
around creativity; either working creatively with other people or my own creativity.
And right now I'm sitting in my first solo exhibition which has occupied a lot of my
portfolio in the last month or so. And so the balance has kind of shifted for a period
of time. On top of that I got 2 young kids, I'm a dad and I'm a husband, I've got a gorgeous
wife. So my life is split or balanced between these things.
Janet Beckers: And the thing that we're talking about it is I find a lot of people I've worked
with have got lots of different interest and they might have lots of different things with
their life. Sometimes you might see it's a failure, like you might have people "make
up your mind, what is it you're going to be when you grow up?" I know, I've felt this
for a long time.
Because I was a nurse, and then I was an artist, and I had an art galleries, and then I even
sold make up, believe it or what. All these different things that I have been doing.
Paul Macklin: You're just addictively entrepreneurial.
Janet Beckers: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I know a lot of you are as well. And sometimes you
can see that as a failure. But actually, with your art, you're demonstrating that you walk,
talk.
Paul Macklin: Well, I think there's a couple of things here, I think one is I think you're
following your creative principle of nature. So nature is abundant. When a seed of birds
there are literally hundreds of seeds that go into the air but maybe only two or three
of those are ever going to germinate. People get stuck because they try to generate
an idea and they fall on the idea and they don't follow it through. So while in generating
lots of ideas, maybe 90% of them is going to fail. They just kind of stick to ones that
will work. It's the same I believe for a creative entrepreneur in the world, you need to put
a lot of ice in the fire, they're ll going to be a fruit.
Janet Beckers: That's really a great point and I think the other thing to is this is
valuable. All of those things if you're thinking that you might be just popping from one to
another. What you're doing now is you're bringing all of those experiences that you've done
before and it means that nobody can be doing what I'm doing in my way because people don't
have my different experiences that I have. And the same with you, people can't be doing
and providing that service and that help in exactly the same way because they don't have
the same experience.
Paul Macklin: They can't play your music, I mean, you know life is a symphony, it's
rich and it's full of variation and texture. You cannot play a symphony on a single instrument.
That's like a solo. To get the richness of an orchestra you need different instruments
and you need the different instruments to play the parts. I think the thing if you're
living a portfolio lifestyle and just that kind of like what's the center of it?
So when selling an aesthetic doing back on making difference. We spend a lot of time
sitting together saying what is common? She's got a creative photography that's all about
inspirational women; ordinary women doing extraordinary things. I've got Head, Hand
and Heart which is all about helping individuals unlock their creative potentials. We've got
amazing people which is about inspiring and transforming people.
And as we began to sit and look at all of these things, "what's my creative work about
in my painting?" In the middle of it, we came up, it's all about making a difference. We
want to make a difference. There are a lot of people who want to make a difference. So
what is it that's in the center of your portfolio life that is the hub that holds it? It's also
must that the conductive score that holds all those together.
If you could start to meditate on that, then all the pieces begin to resonate; the work
one of the other. This creative work validates that I know who would be that one we're talking
about with the creative stuff. But also the fact that I've got twenty years of corporate
experience helps me want to go and mentor executive to know their creativity. I know
I can talk a total business.
Janet Beckers: This is my question to you. We'd love you to join this conversation as
well. In your portfolio lifestyle, I'd love to hear from you, what are the different aspects
that you have that;s a part of that portfolio and I love the question that you had is what's
the center of it? What is that one thing, that kind of theme that you can see that holds
it all together?
And as Paul was saying they've really discovered, it's the "make a difference." So for you,
you may not have it yet, it's okay you don't have to have it immediately but we'd love
to be able to help you to do a little bit of brainstorming down below.
So please tell us a bit about you, and the different things that you're passionate about
and that you do in your life and see if we can find what that central point is.
So I'll come and join the conversation down below and Sir Paul will as well. We'd love
to hear from you. Bye!