‘Reality testing’, now there is a phrase I like. On a day when I am consumed by the enormous gulf between my vision for Creative Data and where it is currently at, these words from Mastin Kipp’s The Daily Love are very comforting or, rather better, bolstering.

I am totally loving The Daily Love’s oh-so-wise newsletters. Every day I find in there a little something that’s useful, and today’s message of Stop talking, Start doing just nails it for me. It also takes me back to the excellent talk by Ira Glass on the distance between your “killer taste” and the “work that falls short”.

Mastin continues…

“As we go through this process, it can be scary because we risk the outcome of our dreams and visions not working or coming true. But we cannot let that fear stop us. If we wish to live our lives as fulfilled people, we must take as much action as we do seeing our visions. We must put ourselves out there and risk rejection, but not take it personally. Instead we see “rejection”, “failure” and “naysayers” just as part of us gathering more information about what we want to create. Think of it as reality testing our ideas.”

The key phrase for me here is:

“If we wish to live our lives as fulfilled people, we must take as much action as we do seeing our visions.”

When the going gets tough and I really wonder why I don’t just work a regular nine to five, with weekends off, I have to look at this and remember why I chose this path. I think the @DoLectures and @GoodForNothing crews know what I am talking about.

Just gotta keep going… as Ira says, “it’s only by going through a volume of work that you are going to catch up and close that gap, and the work you are making will be as good as your ambitions.”