Comments on: What’s Your Currency? Why I Write About Money.

By: Money, Commitment, Sacrifice, Starbucks | Cleavage by Kelly Diels.

Money, Commitment, Sacrifice, Starbucks | Cleavage by Kelly Diels. — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:03:24 +0000

[...] I’ve written about it before: money isn’t really my currency. [...]

By: Collaboration trumps competititon | violetminded

Collaboration trumps competititon | violetminded — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:19:35 +0000

[...] I love code. I live, breathe, eat, and sleep design. I love people. The combination of the three is why violetminded got started in the first place. Love, baby. Sure, somewhere along the line, I’ve gotta market and self-promote. I may even try to make a bit o’ scratch. But money isn’t not what drives me. It’s not my currency. [...]

By: Laura Cococcia

Laura Cococcia — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:47:28 +0000

In my book, you already are a famous writer, my friend.

My currency is relationships. Our most important cultural currency – lasting, meaningful connections are what sustains me. Discovering new relationships are treasures.

But I like adulation too

By: Pat Steer (Gaelen)

Pat Steer (Gaelen) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:59:07 +0000

My currency? Must I choose only one?
Attention, adulation, support – all mediums of exchange, things I need and things I give – these are definitely currency.
But while I need some amount of money (who doesn’t?), I know I could do fine on less. I like shiny things, too – and sparkly things, and older things that have history and presence (which are sometimes even pricier than the new and shiny.) But liking them and needing them are different, and I have been trying to simplify.
The currencies I can’t get enough of, the currencies with the most value (to me)?
Health. Energy. Time.
Of those, there is never enough, and I can’t imagine there would ever be too much.
Good New Year’s, and Happy National Bloody Mary Day.

By: ami | 40daystochange

ami | 40daystochange — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:33:11 +0000

I’m so far from making money with the blog, it’s not even on the radar screen. So I have to content myself with other forms of currency: Attention. Notoriety. A burning (and misplaced and usually fruitless) desire to be hip. Connection. Love of words and language and ideas. And, on good days, a desire to be useful.

I love money, too. But to make enough money to support my blogging habit, I’m gonna have to look elsewhere – for now.

By: Gail

Gail — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:25:54 +0000

TeeHee. Kelly, I had a real giggle when I read, “Love feeds my wolf.” Do you think he actually reads your blog? Wouldn’t it be cool if he did? Too funny!

I’m feeding the right wolf. Of that, I’m certain.

Money will come to you; I’m working on a plan that could help all of us “club” women. Let’s talk again soon.

By: wholly jeanne

wholly jeanne — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:00:30 +0000

get outta here. the past 2 days i have been asking myself this very question: what is my currency cause i kinda’ thought that might help me conjure-up my plan for 2010. so far i’ve come up with books and words and money, and i’m thinking there’s a pattern forming, but honestly, i’ve had a skoch too much wine right now to untangle this. wait: is “currency” plural or singular?

By: emma

emma — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:00:46 +0000

I agree that not having money to pay the bills creates terrible stress which can do a dastardly job of blocking the creative flow. However, I reject the idea that money is the foundation from which art and creativity flow. In fact, in my experience, it is the opposite. The more closely I tie my creativity to money, the less truly creative I become. And, for me, creativity also can’t come from a need for adulation. My deepest creativity comes from a bursting need simply to EXPRESS. I’m not saying that adulation and money should be avoided, not at all. I just posit that creative process is best served when the primary intention is to obtain either. I have a sneaking suspicion the same holds true for you. Am I wrong?

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:00:45 +0000

@Robin G, I totally agree. I may not get paid to do a lot of what I do online but I get to express myself creatively and connect with people in ways that would never have been possible outside of the blogosphere and social networking.

By: Robin G

Robin G — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:07:54 +0000

Of late, I have come to view successful blogging in a different light. I now see influence and community, as rewards for my efforts, and have also had a little success bartering my attentions in exchange for products. Not only is blogging as vastly different, as each individual blogger, but the way we are “paid”, seems to have a nearly endless array of variations.