I often hear people claim that they aren’t creative, but I don’t think that’s them, I think that’s fear talking.

It’s not that you aren’t creative, it’s merely that you think being creative can be fatal, which is absurd 99.9% of the time.

The streets are not littered with people rolling on the floor who’s dying words are, “they didn’t like my poem…”, and on the other side of the road, “someone else gasping out, “they thought my drawing wasn’t good enough…”

No, an act of creativity isn’t fatal, but sometimes it takes some courage.

Courage because when we start we probably won’t be very good (that’s true of pretty much everyone though).

Courage because we’re afraid people will judge us for being a beginner (they probably won’t).

Courage because it might not work (and that’s fine).

And then we try, and once we try we realise that nobody hung us in the street, that we didn’t expire from the world, that we really don’t need much courage after all, not for the second or the third try.

But for the first try, sometimes that just takes a little courage. Not creativity, merely courage. Courage to put your thing out there.

Be couragous my friends.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Plato