I’m taking an art course called Find Your Joy taught by artist Louise Fletcher. I’m just in the first week. She posted an interview with Seth Godin and much of it is about fear (embedded below). He also recommends that people blog every day. So I’m doing that, badly, but I just want to get into the habit of it. I also feel like I need to avoid social media because I want to learn how to not care what people think and posting on social media is so visible. So this is good. I’m rambling.
Lots of great stuff in this interview! I was stopping it every minute to make notes, and then he literally called out people like me furiously taking notes. YOU CAN WATCH THE VIDEO AGAIN LATER he said. Be present.
So, without looking at my notes, I will journal about what I remember.
He says you can’t get rid of fear, it is part of your resistance you have to learn how YOU get past your resistance.
He asks ‘how are you generous’ and that one has me stuck. I don’t feel like I am generous. A lot of what he talks about is the difference between finding a business model and expressing your genius. If you are concerned what others think you will be bland, and not really providing any value because you are attuning yourself to the average of what everyone wants instead of letting your genius out.
He also talks about figuring out what you are doing things for. What is this for? And then, is the action you are taking in alignment with that? That was very clarifying.
I know that I want my art to be healing, mysterious, to give people a feeling of the spiritual. I like being in that place when I make art, and it has been hard to do that.
I do feel some conflict because ultimately I would love to be able to sell my work, and I was doing that at one point. And it all collapsed, and that has been hard, to pick things up again. I am afraid it will collapse again.