Drive

Drive.  

What drives you?

Elizabeth Gilbert in her latest book, Big Magic, writes "...about living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear." 

I couldn't help but see the correlation between her words, and those of Emily P. Freeman, author of A Million Little Ways, who writes about the job of Opinion Manager.

"The artists who struggle the most are the ones who are obsessed with how their work is received. This becomes their full time job and one day they discover they're no longer making art because their profession as an Opinion Manager takes up all their time."

How easy it is to make this a full time job if you choose to share your work with the world. Obsessing over what others might think does seem to get in the way of the art. 

Choosing to share your work does require an amount of courage, because it might not be found worthy by others. However, if there is satisfaction found in the art itself, then it has merit.

Risking giving up the job of Opinion Manager might be worth it after all.