Money is important, whether we wish it to be or not. The keyword here is money.

Your credit score is not money – you cannot buy an amazing, limited-time offer with your credit score. You cannot use your credit score to buy a life-changing course that will help you make more money than you dreamed possible. You need money to do these things.

You need money to be able to improve yourself, your skills, your position; you need it to create, to thrive, to lower the demand your art places on your head.

Creatives, artists, writers, musicians – we, more than anyone else, need to realize the importance of money in our lives. It allows to create more art; it allows us to pay the bills so that we can create more art; it allows us to eat SO THAT WE CAN CREATE MORE ART.

Get money, not an 850 FICO score. We’ve been brainwashed that a credit score is an indicator of wealth, but it isn’t. All a credit score measures is how much interest you’ve paid to banks, how long you’ve been paying them, and how many different types debt you’ve had.

Do you know what a real measure of wealth is?

MONEY!

Money, investments, property, assets – these have been the measures of wealth for centuries now. It’s only been in the last half decade that companies decided to collect a bunch of random information about you and sell it to banks, so that the banks can make huge sums of money off of your ignorance.

Here’s another idea: how many of you have had your personal information compromised and stolen simply because credit bureaus exist? If you are reading this blog right now, if you are breathing, there is a greater than 50% chance that your personal data has been stolen by someone.

BREAK THE CYCLE. Quit thinking that a credit score means something good for anyone but banks. Money matters; wealth matters.

I’ll say this one more time: go make money so that you can create more art.