More Where That Came From
“What holds us back isn’t grossly [undervaluing or] overvaluing our work…
… but tragically underestimating our innate, and ever-expanding capacity to produce more (and better) expressions of it.
A stealth, yet silently crippling form of what the modern personal growth crowd would call a ‘scarcity mindset’.”
This quote rocked my world. It nailed me. It called me out on a fear that I hadn’t even admitted to myself... what if this is my best work and I sell it off and then I’m toast?
When people asked me about my favorite work, the answer is almost always the same: whatever I had just finished.
My most recent work is always full of electricity for me. Give it a few days, weeks, years and I’ll begin to cringe at how I ever thought this was the best thing ever. And yet, I still had the fear that if I ‘undervalued’ it I would be missing out on making an income.
This was born of an old paradigm from an old industry in which I cut my entrepreneurial teeth —photography. The conversation of copyright and usage always sent me into a panic. I must protect what I do! People steal! This work could live on and make me millions! I couldn’t see how it was crippling my ability to circulate the energy. I became stagnant. My creativity suffered. I was bitter and afraid. Sharing my work to be seen, recognized, and hired also suffered.
The quote above is from a post titled “Liquidate Your Best Work” and I’ve moved into that mindset. It’s a call to trust that I am connected to the source of my creativity. It doesn’t come from me, it comes through me. And it’s an ever increasing resource. That feeling of a flow of abundance has become more important to me than the stifled, hoarding, fear of my earlier years of creation.
Maybe it was a blessing... I wasn’t as good at my craft as I believed I was. I’ve moved on from the fear.
Now my focus is on doing more, circulating more, and being ever better in the process. I am connected to a divine source of creation. I am a channel of beauty, creativity, and wonder. My main job isn’t to be the creator, it’s to be a clearer channel and allow more, bigger, and better things through me.
Everytime I complete work I can honestly say, there’s more where that came from.
And if you ask me what my favorite work is now? I’ll tell you it’s whatever is coming through next.