Getting Started (negative $40,000)

To my Friends, my Family, and the Whole World,

I wrote myself a check today.  For $23,000,000 for my birthday (10/23), in the year 2020.  I've been inspired by Jim Carrey, and many other inspirational humans, to use positive action and the Law of Attraction, to create the life that I want to live.

I'm 31 years old.  I simply can't ride a giant tricycle (pedicab) for a living.  And I don't want to.  I'm an introvert on a pedicab.  It's a rough gig.  My income is based on my ability to ride around downtown Austin at night, convincing strangers that they should take a ride on my tricycle.  Then if I do convince them, I have to haul their butts around, using my precious life energy, only to receive 10 or 20 dollars for my hard work.  I could have made a painting!  And I will.  Many beautiful paintings.

When I graduated from Warren Wilson College in 2010, I found myself in an interesting position.  I was 26 years old, 40,000 dollars in debt and I had an art degree.  So I thought to myself "cool.  what should I do now?"  Because there was no way I was going to make that money as an artist.  I got a job in Vail, Colorado, and moved out there with my good friend Ben Donnelly.  We were working at the mountain as ski instructors, and 'making ends meet' during the off season.  I came to the Rocky Mountains to work for a season.  Ben and I attracted more and more friends and relatives from afar, and as each year passed by, I thought to myself 'just one more summer, just one more winter...'  We started to build a community in the mountains.  Why leave when you live in one of the most beautiful places in the world?  The whole time my debt was in the back of my mind, but I wasn't paying it off effectively as a ski instructor/pedicab driver/gardener/babysitter/mountain bike coach/fitness club worker/artist.  And I wasn't creating much art either.  I started to become more and more agitated about this, but I wasn't sure what to do.  It seemed that I never had enough money, but I was working a ton!  8 hour shifts as a children's ski instructor, followed by 7 hour night-shifts on the pedicab.  Talk about an exhausting life.  I was using all of my energy, but saving little to no money (because of the slow off seasons and my addiction to ski and bike gear).

Then one day in April, Love called me on the phone.  It was Lindsay Loftin, a lover who I had let slip away, I thought forever, when I wasn't ready to commit to a relationship.  She had left me, driving west with tears in her eyes.  A while later, I saw on Facebook that she was engaged.  I felt very sad that she would never be mine again, but I knew that it was my own fault.  Then, after not speaking for two years, Lindsay called me on the phone.  Her voice lit me up inside.  I knew that I still cared for her, but wasn't sure why she would be calling.  She soon told me why.  Lindsay was calling off her marriage, and she was still in love with me!  It was obvious that we had to see each other.  We talked on the phone often, and she came to visit me in Colorado.  She only visited for a week, but it changed the course of both of our lives.  Two months later, I was preparing to move across the country, to Austin, Texas.

I arrived in Austin in October.  I found some odd jobs, but I was miserable and barely getting paid.  After a couple months of struggling to make ends meet, I started to find my groove as an artist.  The more I created, the more people were buying.  I could hardly keep up with demand.  I was putting positive energy out into the world, and receiving more energy in return.  The more you give, the more you get.  So that leads me to my goal.  $23 million.  In particular, I plan to serve Two Million customers with my art business.  You see, I thought that being an artist was an almost impossible way to make a living.  And then I realized that being an artist is what I was put here to do.  To create beauty and create love.  Just about everybody has walls.  Everybody needs art!  There is no doubt in my mind that it improves life.  Art can express the full range of human emotion, change the way that we feel every day, describe poetry through a line or a curve, even take us from heartbreak to true love.  I was born to do this work, and I promise to give it everything that I've got.  I don't know exactly how I am going to do it, but I know that you can help me.  Help me put the energy out there.  Help me put the Law of Attraction to work.  Thank you for reading this and supporting me on my journey so far.  My heart is full of gratitude.  To my friends, my family and the entire universe, help me show my art to the world!  This is my soul's purpose.

Alan Watts on youtube "Give it away and it will all come back"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXq_mVU8nyc

New and Improved website:

www.alecfallehamilton.com

Five Steps to Success Online:

http://thesfm.com/alecfallehamilton?t=FB1