by Marty Coleman | Oct 1, 2015 | Money Problems - 2015 |
Have you ever heard the quote, “Wherever you go, there you are.”? This quote is similar only having to do with money. In other words, you can have all the money in the world but it’s still you in control of it. And if you aren’t competent at controlling your money you will wreck it, surely as you will wreck a car.
This drawing (and the entire Money series) is available for purchase (original or print). Please contact me at Marty@napkindad.com if you are interested.
College of Money
When I was young we were a pretty wealthy family. Nice homes, cars, boats, vacations, even airplanes. But through a series of events, both personal and global, we had to downsize to a much more middle class existence. That included not being able to afford the college I was going to and me going out on my own. I regrouped and eventually went back to college on my own dime. That was the start of my college education in learning how to deal with money.
Masters of Money
I eventually got married and the family I married into was very different than my own. They were quite frugal and responsible with their money. They planned, invested, planned and invested some more. They budgeted, they prioritized, they delayed gratification. They judged the need vs the want. Marrying into that family was the graduate school of my education about how to deal with money.
Ph.D in Money
Later still I got divorced. We had just finally gotten out of debt from a move, a job change, and the raising of 3 kids. But the divorce had blown all that out of the water and I was back in debt. It took me many years to get back on track. That was my Ph.D. into how to deal with money.
Real Life in Money
How do you deal with money? Are you learning from the events of your life? Have you figured out what works and what doesn’t? Have you changed habits, ways of thinking, attitudes? What is the number one lesson you have learned? Let us know and maybe it will become a new drawing in the series!
Drawing and commentary © 2015 Marty Coleman | napkindad.com
Quote by Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, Russian-born American Novelist and Philosopher
You can see the creation of this drawing by watching a replay of my Periscope live video. Watching on Periscope allows you to interact with me live as I draw. It can be a lot of fun! If you would like to follow me on Periscope I am @thenapkindad.
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by Marty Coleman | Sep 30, 2015 | Money Problems - 2015 |
A Question
Is this true or false? We had a long discussion about it yesterday, trying to come up examples of money solving problems that could not be traced back to actually be a money problem. We covered health, relationships, poverty, and more. We couldn’t find one. What do you think? Can you find a problem that money solves that isn’t in the end, about money?
Original drawing or prints are available – Please contact me at marty@napkindad.com to find out more.
Drawing and commentary © 2015 Marty Coleman | napkindad.com
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by Marty Coleman | Sep 29, 2015 | Contest Winners |
I had a contest on Periscope this month (9/15) where I gave away a print of a napkin drawing. The winner was the one that sent in the best quote, as voted on by the #NapkinKin on Periscope. The quote below, “Be somebody who makes everybody feel like somebody” was the overwhelming favorite, having garnered 50% of the votes.
The winner was @freddyferret so I thought it would be fun to draw a ferret in the scene. Congrats to Freddy!
I will have another contest giveaway in October so if you aren’t on Periscope, get on it and follow me @thenapkindad!
Drawing and commentary © 2015 Marty Coleman | napkindad.com
Quote by Robby Novak (Kid President)
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by Marty Coleman | Sep 23, 2015 | Yogi Berra, Yogi Quote Mashup - 2015 |
Yogi the Great
Yogi Berra was one of the best baseball players ever. If he was mute and never said a word he would still be in the hall of fame many times over. Look up his statistics and there will be no doubt.
Yogi the Poet
But Yogi did talk. He said a lot of very funny, odd and surprisingly insightful things. Many are non sequiturs where the first part of the quote seems to make no sense with the second part of the quote. That gave me the idea of taking the quotes one step further, doing a mash up of two of his quotes and see what I can come up with.
Drawing and commentary © 2015 Marty Coleman | napkindad.com
Quotes by Yogi Berra, 1925-2015, American Baseball Player
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by Marty Coleman | Sep 23, 2015 | It's BEYOND Imagination!, Paul Gauguin |
Open Eyes
There is a funny thing that happens on Periscope, the live video broadcast app I used daily (@thenapkindad). It’s international and because of that men from all over the world, especially from Turkey and the Middle East, will come on the broadcasts of women and say ‘Open Bobs’. What they actually mean is ‘open boobs’ or ‘show me your boobs’. This usually results in the woman broadcasting and many of her viewers blocking the man. It never results in the woman showing her boobs. Periscope is actually really pretty good about not allowing nudity and sexually explicit broadcasts to stay on.
Open Eyes
When I am watching broadcasts I don’t say ‘open boobs’. It’s not that I would mind seeing boobs, some of my best friends on Periscope have very nice ones I am sure, but I am not there to see them. But sometimes when I watch scopes I do want to say ‘Open Eyes’. This most often happens when I am randomly browsing scopes. I will come across someone who is bored and has nothing to say. They expect those watching their broadcast to entertain them instead of the other way around. They tell you they don’t know what to scope about but will still be scoping, and usually boring their audience into oblivion while doing so. Then there is the type who basks in their horrible situation. They seem to brag about their dysfunction, making it into popular entertainment instead of fixing it.
Shut Eyes
What I sometimes feel these people need is to open their eyes. But how are they going to do that? I think for them to open their eyes they need to shut them. What they all seem to lack is creativity. The bored ones aren’t seeing a creative direction for their attention. The dysfunctional ones aren’t seeing a creative solution to their dysfunction. Their eyes have been open the entire time and it obviously hasn’t led to them finding solutions. So I say they need to Shut their eyes and imagine.
Uniform
What will shutting their eyes do? Hopefully they can strip off the constraints of ‘standard’ and ‘tradition’ and ‘expectations’ and allow creative and imaginative ideas and solutions to come up from their subconscious.
Making connections between disparate and incongruous things is at the heart of creativity and that usually can’t happen if there is a lot of ‘NO’ going on in one’s head. You would think that having your eyes open would allow you to see creative connections but often we see what has been designed by others who are looking for standardization and uniformity, not individual uniqueness. A quick look at the main commercial centers in the US will tell you that – big box franchise after big box franchise looking like you are in Anywhere, USA.
Unique
But shutting your eyes? Shutting your eyes allows you to dream. You can see the connections between things that don’t seem to belong together. You can allow your own unique mind to take precedence over the corporate mind that wants you to fit in to their box.
In order to imagine “I shut my eyes in order to see.”
Drawing and Commentary © Marty Coleman | Napkindad.com
Quote by Paul Gauguin, 1848-1903, French artist
I bought this painting by Gauguin on a postcard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City when I was a young teenager. I had it up on my wall wherever I lived or in my studio for close to 30 years. I probably still have it tucked away in a drawer or portfolio somewhere. I always loved the golden color of the main figure and the perfect tilt of the head of the woman at the side. The genius of Gauguin in having the women both look off in the way the do led me to wonder often what it was they were thinking about and looking at.
Paul Gauguin, Les Seins aux Fleurs Rouges, 1899, oil on canvas
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