If You Don’t Do It, You Won’t Fail — But Neither Will You Succeed

You won’t fail if you don’t share what you create — but you won’t succeed, either.

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Sharing your work can be terrifying. It can feel like you’re putting yourself out there to be judged.

I write and post blogs 4 days a week. In addition, I do a podcast once a week. Then, because that’s not all, I have a dozen works of fiction published on Amazon — and more coming.

Despite all that I do — I still fear that I’ll fail. And that’s deterred me multiple times along the way from acting to grow my life and expand my art how I desire to.

Yet it’s impossible to succeed if you don’t do the thing and share the thing.

As a creative, there are various degrees of doing. Some people create for themselves. Others create for friends and family. Then, you get professionals.

Writers, painters, sculptors, and every stripe of artist you can conceive of face the same challenge. Our creations still have personal touches to them — and thus, rejection of them feels like a rejection of us.

Putting your work out into the world means you are — potentially — setting yourself up to fail. I can’t deny that as being so. But then, if you don’t put your work out…