Here’s the journey we’ve been on.

We’ve identified the rightness and goodness we want to contribute to the world, we have been developing our art, practicing it and experimenting with it.*

But you’re not sure this is the right time, that the conditions are good enough.  They could better.  You put it off.  Something fades.  (I am speaking to myself first of all.)

The sprinter positions himself on the blocks, leaning forward so that when he takes his arms away he falls forward and has to run or stumble.  It’s all or nothing.  Let go.  Boom.  (Again, I am saying this to myself firstly.)

This is not the dream, not yet.  When we deliver, the realisation of the dream will come into view.

And just as we’re about to hesitate, deciding to wait for the ideal conditions which will never come, Seth Godin whispers to us: ‘real victories come when you have the guts to launch the untestable.’

How did I ever think that something which mattered so much to me would avoid doubts and sleepless nights?

Time to deliver.

(*Befriending people, making cakes as gifts, solving problems, decorating homes with precision, colliding ideas, crafting good brews at the drop-in, designing new code, making the clothing alteration and adding a little more … all of these are examples of our art when they combine talents and passions.)