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The Decision to Keep Going

The reality is that jumping into the creative vortex, while seemingly impossible, is actually the easy part. The process of sharing your work, of struggling to sustain your work, is far harder and scarier than creating it in the first place. I have to put as much energy into distributing and marketing the book as I did into the days I spent locked in the library writing it. I know that Day 366 requires far more dedication than Day 1.

Learning to balance this tension between the fire that burns within your heart and the practical voice inside your head is what makes you an artist or an entrepreneur. It’s what allows you to make the hardest decision you ever have to make (which you have to make every single day—sometimes two or three times a day): the decision to keep going.

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