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Your Dreams Can’t Happen if You Don’t Let Others See You

Having courage is the first step on any journey

You might think no one cares about your work.

I think most of us start out believing that, no matter what creative pursuit we’re involved in.

I can only speak from a writer’s perspective, but I believe this is why it takes most people so long to actually begin whatever it is they’re called to do.

We’re afraid to act like the thing we wish to become, because we’re told before we even start that we won’t make it. It’s highly unlikely that we’ll see any kind of success; and therefore, too risky, they tell us.

We are constantly bombarded with stories about the struggling artist, or the writer who labours all their life, living a lonely existence and life of poverty, only to get — nowhere.

Their whole life is spent in a cycle of barely getting by, and they never get to reap any of the benefits of their hard work and decades of dedication to some misunderstood endeavour.

My Belief is Shattered

I started out believing this narrative, too. It’s hard not to.

Even some of the enormously successful writers on Medium had started to suck me down the rabbit hole of…