So This Is What Stress Feels Like

I sorta had a little snapping point and hollered to the gang

"I'm just a little guy. I'm afraid I won't figure it all out."

Of course the Kreatrix heard me and said

"Please don't say 'just a little guy.' It diminishes you."

Oh, boy. And we all know I'm not that big to start with.

She tells me

"Don't think so much. Use your intuition. You know: "Use the Force, Luke!"

Then she goes on to tell me that Homer began The Illiad and The Odyssey with an invocation to the Muses.

Homer Simpson writes stuff? No offense, but I didn't think he had it in him.

So apparently fear is some kind of evil force that artists and dudes like me have to slay everyday.

So The Kreatrix shows me these idols of hers:

"The man who is largely responsible for these Pixar characters having a chance at life on the big screen advised us to: Stay hungry. Stay foolish. His name was Steve Jobs."

So I'm not supposed to worry about knowing everything. Sometimes it's okay to go a bit Homer Simpson and not know what I'm doing. It might just create something no one else thought of.

So I sucked it up and got to work without knowing a darn thing other than my name and look!

BOOOOOYAH! One seat for my car is covered! BUT IT TOOK ALLLLLL DAY. With Dude's help.

So I went off to bed after a hard days work and walked out to the studio the next day and saw BOTH SEATS COVERED! I cried tears of happiness like a little kitten and The CEO comforted me.

We sat on the new squishy seats for my car and talked about life.

"The Kreatrix and I want you to understand something. It's best summed up by a quote from the writings of W.H. Murray. It was recited at the ceremony where The Kreatrix married The Professor."

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and material assistance which no man or cat could have dreamed would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

Woah. Now I really feel like Homer Simpson. I'm off to chew on those words.

The Kreatrix wants you to know about Steven Pressfield's books: The War of Art and Do The Work. Apparently they are like Luke using the Force.