"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas." -Henry Ford
What if we all took a minute to ponder what feeds our enthusiasm for our own work...
Now ponder what kills it? What leaves us feeling half-there when we show up and sometimes drains us to show up at all?Go ahead. Do it.
Consider it.
And what about those things that do both?
Like parenthood.
Or striving to be the best.
Critique comes to mind.
How do we embrace the lovely tension of wonderful things that both feed us and drain us?
These are things I delight in and wrestle with as I approach my own artistic work. They haunt me and heal me. They usually feed my enthusiasm but sometimes they dull it.
They also all seem completely necessary to my life.
What about yours?
