Are
you a creative type? Would you like to
wear the label “Creative”? Then you have
an ugly twin who follows you everywhere you go.
Elizabeth
Gilbert says this about that: “Fear
and creativity are conjoined twins.”
Especially
during the early days of being a writer and blogger, I felt great panic every
time it came time for me to press PUBLISH.
My thoughts were these:
What if this is crap?
What if nobody reads this?
What if I’ve got ten misspelled words?
What if it is boring?
What if people laugh?
What if the literary cops come and put me in
jail for subject/verb abuse?
Most
creative types I know and read about face this dilemma in pursuing their craft. Every dancer wants to be perfect, every
singer wants to wow their audience, and every speaker wants to astound their
listeners with an amazingly glib delivery.
And
along comes fear.
Fear
rides on the shoulder of every attempt to be creative or every attempt to do
something new.
AND WE DO IT ANYWAY!
We
create, we write, and sing, dance, build tall buildings, create movie scripts; we
deliver sermons and speeches, we run for office and a thousand other pursuits,
and all the while we thumb our nose at fear.
We say ‘Fear, get out of the way.
I’ve got stuff to produce the likes of which this world has yet to
see. Step aside. My creative self is coming through.”
We
face our fears and we create something of nothing.
Got
fear?
Who
doesn’t?
A
question for you: Who’s going to drive
your bus - Fear or Creativity?
P Michael Biggs
Offering
Hope
Encouragement
Inspiration
One Word
at a Time
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