you with what you are doing. Become willing to see the
hand of God and accept it as a friend’s offer to help with
what you are doing. Because many of us unconsciously
harbor the fearful belief that God would find our creations
decadent or frivolous or worse, we tend to discount this
creator-to-creator help.
Try to remember that God is the Great Artist. Artists like
other artists.
Expect the universe to support your dream. It will.

PERFECTIONISM

Tillie Olsen correctly calls it the “knife of the perfectionist
attitude in art.” You may call it something else. Getting it
right, you may call it, or fixing it before I go any further.
You may call it having standards. What you should be
calling it is perfectionism.
Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has
nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with
standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move
ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system
that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are
writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole.
Instead of creating freely and allowing errors to reveal
themselves later as insights, we often get mired in getting
the details right. We correct our originality into a uniformity