I sit and wonder how many people have had those questions on their minds. They are two questions that create self doubt and creates a blockage on doing or creating something simply because we worry that no one will like it. No one will buy it! Or worse! No, more worse than that!

When G-Rated was first put to thought around 2000 or 2001, half of the team did not agree on it. What is a “G” they would ask. We do not want to be affiliated with Gangsters. It was hard to describe at that time how a G differs from a gangster. If you knew, you knew.

But with half of the team not agreeing on the name, it caused the entire project to be put on hold for a few years. Quite a few years actually. The first issue of the G-Rated Magazine was printed out in 2012.

for one reason or another G-Rated persists to exist.

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At that time we were all working at Pasadena Town Square Mall under the airbrush store named Artistic Fantasies One. Jay Guerra was the original founder of Artistic Fantasies, but decided to take his part of the business elsewhere and sell the store inside Pasadena Town Square Mall. The mall itself was not doing so great. It was a location that was being considered a “dying mall” at that time. However, Artistic Fantasies airbrush store was doing well. The G-Rated Magazine was now released, some of the team worked at the store and some worked at different events. There was content to put in the magazine and everyone had something to do. It did not matter that we were in a dying mall. We brought our own crowd, advertisers and more.

There has been many ups and downs creating many push backs and set backs on new release of the G-Rated Magazines. However, every now and then, when one of our creators had the desire to create a new issue, it was done. It has not been completely consistent, but it has been randomly consistent. Never on purpose, but for one reason or another G-Rated persists to exist.

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As new generations arise, there is that G again, there is new interests in the past. G-Rated had that rebellious side that not many people would want to be attached to, but those in the streets were feeling the beat. Although, at those times, G-Rated was stuck in trying to appear professional and keep it streets. A similar situation that was face by our parent company which produced a magazine called Eye Cavity Magazine, which was more on the nudity side as G-Rated was more on the artsy side. However, both had these battles of which direction to go, because there was need of funding and need to put out what we desired. And see, here is where self doubt starts to hit. I am wondering if I should print this. Who would want to read this story of G-Rated creation? Is it too informative? TMI? LOL

It is us. It is our story. The magazines captured our families and moments in those pages. They were not the best quality printed material but it was home made, by us for us. The older generation would ask who would want those? Who is going to buy them? It is difficult to say sometimes when is the right time to do something. Sometimes a new issue of G-Rated magazine just has to drop, you understand me? It might not be the right time for it to be acknowledge but it might be for someone in the future. Like now, we are going through generations with new parents and children. New Grandparents and Grandchildren, G-babies and G-parents. There is something that we can share with our new generations of the past memorable moments.

Is anybody listening? Does anybody care?

The best way to answer that is by asking do you care? Does it matter to you to have your work created? Ed Miles said “on this Hack the Entrepreneur podcast, he mentions that if the though crosses our minds to do it and we do it, someone somewhere is looking for that thing that you did. The important thing is to create it. The important thing is to find that person that wants that thing that you created so that you have an audience that is interested of more of that thing that you did.” I hope you didn’t let that fool you. It makes lots of sense. Similar to the quote “if you build it, they will come” that everybody knows.

We would all love to see our creations go to the people who are interested in our works right away, but it isn’t always the case. Again quoting Ed Miles, he said that “the Cranberries released the same album twice because the first time it didn’t do so well. Same album, different listeners.” So for anyone who is still battling with self doubt, remember it is important to love what you created. Second, the time you created it might not be the time it was meant to be seen.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

It is important to love what you create. We mean in all sense of that word. Here at G-Rated headquarters, we agreed to love what we create. Or on WordPress, give yourself a star. If you do not take the time to give yourself a star, a heart, or a thumbs up, why should anyone else? Those that do get them get them, but I assure you whether they take the time to like themselves, they are confident that they are liked, so they are still manifesting through the power of thought.

They say that some of the decoded messages that Leonardo Di Vinci did in his paintings were not meant to be understood by those in the past but have now been decoded about the mysteries of the ancients. It could be possible or overactive need to label everything as humans tend to do. Point being, there are many beings studying his artwork very carefully several years later. We cannot truly say we knew what the artist really meant, but each has their own input on their interpretation of it, depending on their own beliefs.