The Artist vs Fear: You Beat It Yesterday, and You Will Beat It Today
We are all scared of something, but our fears aren’t always rational.
I’m more nervous to post a Youtube video of myself singing one of my songs, than I am to do a four-hour bar gig.
However, when my duo partner Aaron Noone left Michigan in 2008 to perform on cruise ships, I feared I couldn’t do a four-hour bar gig by myself.
And my freshmen year of college, I was scared to sing in public.
Yet when I was in high school, I was too nervous to play guitar with the church band, and quit after once rehearsal.
Fear is always taunting the mind of the artist, writer, or musician. Fear thrives on attaching itself to our next goal–like a monkey on our back, or a giant dog on our lap–which is why we must continually remind ourselves how we’ve conquered fear many time before the next project.
You beat fear yesterday, and you will be it today.
Lois knows what it means to “go big”!
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