Putting It Out There…Whatever “It” is For You

“You were invited, and you showed up, and you simply cannot do more than that. They might throw you out…but the ballroom is often more welcoming and supportive than you could ever imagine.”

– Elizabeth Gilbert, “Big Magic”

Is there something you KNOW — way deep down in your soul — you need to do?

I was flipping through Elizabeth Gilbert’s delightful book, Big Magic; Creative Living Beyond Fear, the other day and came across one of my favourite passages. It’s a great story and since it made me laugh out loud, again, I thought I’d share it with you.

It’s a good reminder about finding the courage to put whatever it is we have to offer to the world out there. Sure…we might get laughed at, scorned, criticized, teased, judged and/or rejected.

But if so, so what? We’re tough. We can take it.

But chances are pretty good that if we love what we’ve come up with, others probably will, too. And if not, oh well. If we enjoyed the process of making (or baking, creating, designing, writing, composing, sketching, building, painting, sculpting, etc) it, then the effort was worth it.