In my second-to-last post I wrote about Seth Godin’s new book. It’s not a particularly original book, really — it just revisits, one more time, the themes of “starting” and “keeping going.”
But there’s one thread in the book I especially like: trust. Because everyone on a creative path has to trust their own journey. This has nothing to do with confidence. Doubts will come, again and again. Is this even the right path? Am I lost? Am I flogging a dead horse? Does this road lead anywhere, or has it all been a colossal waste of time? Trusting yourself doesn’t mean blind faith.
Keep going. Always keep going…
So how do you actually learn to trust yourself and the process? By carrying on. By not throwing it all in straight away. Give yourself a longer leash and resist the urge to criticise everything immediately. Self-trust builds when you prove to yourself, day after day, that you’re showing up, that you’re giving it a go. What matters isn’t the result — it’s the process.
The journey is the destination. And if you end up somewhere different from where you planned, that’s fine too. At least you’ve walked a path you can look back on. What do you have to show if you never even start?
Originally published auf Deutsch at reinergaertner.de (est. 1997, older than Google). AI helped translate this. I helped introduce the errors.