Finding Your Voice0

“Sometimes, you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.” {Miles Davis}

When you’re playing in the sandbox of creativity, you will admire other artists. Eventually, your admiration becomes observation as you study what they do and how they do it. You find yourself doing the same thing to see if you have that kind of talent and creative spark within you.  Before you know it, you’ve repainted a flea-market version of their masterpiece. When your eyes are opened to it, it’s deflating and you want to tap out.

Sound familiar?

If so, welcome to the world of art. You’ve just taken a step forward in your orientation.

This phase of a creative’s development is not arbitrary, it’s part of the learning process-and it’s normal. What’s a shame is how discouragement derails so many artists and tempts them to stop creating. All because they believe they’ll never be as good as someone else.

Here’s the deal: It’s true. You never will create a better version of the Mona Lisa. Why? Not because you lack talent, but because that’s not your masterpiece. It’s someone else’s. Yours has yet to emerge.

It will take time, hard work, and grit, but it’s there, just waiting for you to find your voice and bring it out.

No one in God’s creation can create what you will.  Why?

Because there’s no one like you.

You are an original.

Go and create likewise.

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