Best-selling author, Liz Gilbert, is a 'feel the fear and do it anyway' creative machine.
'I never created anything in my life that didn't make me feel, at some point or another, like I was the guy who just walked into a fancy ball wearing a homemade lobster costume.'
Here are her 10 favourite techniques for persistent courage that every creative should know.
1. Uncertainty is what we sign up for when we puruse the creative life.
2. Stand strong in this truth - you are worthy, dear one, regardless of the outcome.
3. Keep moving in the direction of wonder/
4. Be devoted to inquisitiveness - follow your love and curiosity.
5. Remember: the work wants to be made and it wants to be made through you.
6. Keep trying and seeking - and sometimes in the least expected time and place, it finally happens.
7. Keep calling out in the dark woods for your own big magic.
8. Focus on your devotion to the work above all.
9. Miraculous turns of fate happen to those who keep showing up.
10. Never turn around and walk out - otherwise you will miss the party.
And so, we keep turning up. I write weekly on my blog, Human Moments. Come, take a look 👉 https://bit.ly/3Bgy86g