I
want to speak to the creative person who lives inside of you. Let him/her out for a bit and read this.
Nobody
who is anybody likes to be wrong. I
certainly don’t and you probably don’t either.
The
fear of being wrong constricts, it stops us in our tracks, and it gets in the
way of creativity.
Note
this:
How
many attempts did the Wright brothers make before they succeeded in their first
flight of 12 seconds?
Do
you play the stock market? How often are
you wrong? How often are you right?
I
don’t have millions of dollars in my retirement portfolio because of fear of
making a poor investment. Can I see a
show of hands on that one?
The
adventure of being a creative soul is fraught with peril. You would not believe the fears I faced in my
early days of blogging. Before every
push of the PUBLISH button, I faced panic.
My
conversations ran something like this.
“What
if I’ve said something stupid?”
“What
if nobody reads it?”
“What
if I misquoted something and the blog police come and arrest me?”
I’m
re-reading Julia Cameron’s The Artist Way. Here’s a quote worth re-quoting.
PROGRESS,
NOT PERFECTION
I
love that. Am I getting better? Am I going further and getting stronger?
Squelch
the fear. Stop it in its tracks.
Do
the thing you desire to do.
I
guarantee that tomorrow you’ll be a bit closer to your dream than you were
today.
A
classic quote: “Do what you fear and the fear of death is certain.”
P Michael Biggs
Offering
Hope
Encouragement
Inspiration
One Word
at a Time
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