Attitudes About Living a Creative Life

Devotion to the Work

I've been sharing some of my favorite quotes from Elizabeth Gilbert's new book: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (2015).  These quotes explore attitudes about doing the work:

• Measure your work by your dedication to your path.

• Focus on the devotion to my creative work.  That is how to measure my worth.  I only have control over my discipline.

• Just say what you want to say, then say it with all your heart.

• Write a book to entertain yourself, not to help someone else.

• Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.

• Work on your craft every day with steady discipline and love.

• Make absolutely whatever you want to make.  It's nobody's business but your won.

• Write with the fealty of a holy pilgrim.

• Frustration is not an interruption of the process.  Frustration is the process.

• Mere completion is an honorable achievement in its own right.  What's more, it's a rare one.

• Release something that is good enough. 

• Don't rush through the experiences and circumstances that have the most capacity to transform you. 

• Never be ashamed of the work.  You did your best with what you knew, and you worked with what you had, in the time that you were given.

• You were invited and you showed up. You cannot do more than that.

With that coaching, I am tackling my pending writing projects with new attitudes and energy.  

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