Sing Your Song (Even If No One is Listening)

Yikes! Where did April go? And how did I forget I had a blog?

• I finished revising my third novel and began pitching it to literary agents. (Three have already asked to read it!)
• I developed and presented a writing workshop for Goodwill senior-level staff who are in a development program to become Goodwill CEOs one day. This was some of the most fulfilling work I’ve done in my almost eight years working for Goodwill’s national office.

Because I don’t have time to develop anything original for my own blog, I’m going to direct you to a mind-blowing, thought-provoking pieceby Seth Godin. He advises us not to expect applause for the work we do.

An excerpt: If your work is filled with the hope and longing for applause, it’s no longer your work – the  dependence on approval has corrupted it, turned it into a process where you are striving for ever more approval.

The one line that still resonates is: To play a beautiful song for two people or a thousand is the same song, and the amount of thanks you receive isn’t part of that song.