Legendary Bliss

There was a book-signing last night.  Or was it a class reunion?  Several of my former co-workers from when I first came to New York were there.  It certainly felt like a class reunion! We had come together to honor one of our own, and of course, to buy his book.  Sure, it was an exciting event, especially since we knew the author!

The man of the hour is someone I have long admired.  Scott Sanders left a management position to come to New York to work as a sales associate while he went back to school so he could make a major career change.  He had reached a point where he was compelled to follow his bliss, and had the courage to follow through.  It has paid off for him, after all the book is not only a compilation of his interior design work, but a journal of his career, his inspiration and the people he has met along his way.

Scott speaks very eloquently of the influence of his family roots.  He is not abashed to admit his taste comes from his mom and grandmothers.  What makes this even more interesting, is that he expresses his "genetic taste" through very feminine colors (shades of blue), accentuated by the masculine (fire engine red, orange and yellow).  His childhood clip file of magazine photos along with his own drawings are the visible seeds of his passion.  Family means a lot to him and it shows in the homes he has created for his clients.

He could have stayed in retail management and had a lucrative career, I'm certain.  However, I think his free time, his dream time would have continued to be spent  drawing and sketching fantasy houses/ homes for a community of fantasy people.  How much better that he said yes to his creative impulses and turned his passion into his career!

In one of my earlier pieces, I wrote that however high you throw your heart, the rest of you will follow.  As all of the people who write motivational books tell us, if you are following your bliss, working with your passion, your work ceases to be a job.  We simply have to be willing to let go in order to hold on to something else.  Scott did this, and in my book it makes him legendary.

Oh, by the way, his book is entitled "Picture Perfect: Designing the New American Family Home," by Scott Sanders.  You can purchase it right here through my Amazon.com associates link on this page.