You’re at the perfect age to create and the act of creating is the thing that’s the best.
I used to look up my genius heroes of creation on Wikipedia and see when they got their big break. This is a depressing exercise. Everyone will be young and awesome and get tons of fame and then die of the plague or kill themselves.
But it’s not about that. It’s not about who notices or how much money you get from it or how many people stop you on the street and ask for a selfie or how many trips you can go on or how many rooms you have in your apartment.
Protect the ability to work on what you want to work on.
Creating things for money means you must prioritize creating things that make you money. Even if you make money from the things you create, have other things you can create that won’t make you money and work on those too. Prioritize those until you just HAVE TO create the thing that makes you money but even then not for the money but for the love of it.
Get filled up by God and then overflow into your projects. Overflowing into projects means you just have to create something. Have a menu of options of things you can create and then go for it until you…
