“So take your insecurities and your fears and hold them upside down by their ankles and shake yourself free of all your cumbersome ideas about what you require (and how much you need to pay) in order to become creatively legitimate. Because I’m telling you that you are already creatively legitimate.”
Gilbert, Elizabeth. (2015). Big Magic: Creative living beyond fear. New York, NY: Penguin Random House. P. 108.
“Trust me, your soul has been waiting for you to wake up to your own existence for years…”
Gilbert, Elizabeth. (2015). Big Magic: Creative living beyond fear. New York, NY: Penguin Random House. P. 95.
“Even if you grew up watching cartoons in a sugar stupor from dawn to dusk, creativity still lurks within you…”
Gilbert, Elizabeth. (2015). Big Magic: Creative living beyond fear. New York, NY: Penguin Random House. P. 89.
“All I know for certain is that this is how I want to spend the rest of my life–
collaborating to the best of my ability with forces of inspiration
that I can neither see, nor prove, nor command, nor understand.”
Gilbert, Elizabeth. (2015). Big Magic: Creative living beyond fear. New York, NY: Penguin Random House. P. 78.
“We simply don’t have the time anymore to think so small…”
Gilbert, Elizabeth. (2015). Big Magic: Creative living beyond fear. New York, NY: Penguin Random House. P. 27.
“…Ideas spend an eternity swirling around us, searching for available and willing partners…
…The idea will try to WAVE YOU DOWN,
(perhaps for a few moments, perhaps for a few months, or perhaps even a few years),
but when it finally realizes you are oblivious to its message, it will move on to someone else.”
Gilbert, Elizabeth. (2015). Big Magic: Creative living beyond fear. New York, NY: Penguin Random House. P. 36.
“Ideas are alive, ideas do seek the most available human collaborator, ideas do have a conscious will, ideas do move from soul to soul, ideas will always try to seek the swiftest and most efficient conduit to earth (just as lightning does).”
Gilbert, Elizabeth. (2015). Big Magic: Creative living beyond fear. New York, NY: Penguin Random House. P. 57.
“…Creativity is a gift to the creator, not just a gift to the audience…”
Gilbert, Elizabeth. (2015). Big Magic: Creative living beyond fear. New York, NY: Penguin Random House. P. 72.
Hidden Barrier no. 1: Feeling Fundamentally Flawed
“I cannot expand to my full creative genius because something is fundamentally wrong with me.”
This belief tells you to play it safe and stay small. THAT WAY, IF YOU FAIL, AT LEAST YOU FAIL SMALL.
Hidden Barrier no. 2: Disloyalty and Abandonment
I cannot expand to my full success because it would cause me to end up all alone,
be disloyal to my roots, and leave people behind from my past.
Hidden Barrier no. 3: Believing That More Success Brings a Bigger Burden
“I can’t expand to my highest potential because I’d be an even bigger burden than I am now.”
Hidden Barrier no. 4: The Crime of Outshining
“I must not expand to my full success, because if I did I would outshine_________________and make him or her look or feel bad.”
Hendricks, Gay. (2009). The Big Leap: Conquer your hidden fear and take life to the next level. New York, NY: Harper Collins. P. 45-55.
Hendricks, Gay. (2009). The Big Leap: Conquer your hidden fear and take life to the next level. New York, NY: Harper Collins. P. 18.
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