This is from Cassidy Frost’s latest, How to Dedicate Your Life to Music When You’re Fucking Scared:
“You don’t need to believe in yourself, you just need to act in service of whatever thing you do believe in, no matter how small.”
Stack up Small Acts daily and weekly. They don’t need to be heavy, cost a lot of money, or take up a lot of time.
As time passes, these Small Acts will create a mountain built on all the cool things you’re doing.
Then I saw this is Lauren’s latest newsletter a day later:
“If you keep swimming, shooting your shot, putting in the reps, things are bound to look different or at least pleasantly more weird a year later.”
Heck yes, “pleasantly more weird.”
The work doesn’t guarantee you’ll achieve some new level of success. But the cliche “it’s the journey, not the destination” rings true for a reason.
Act in service of yourself. It has to start there. Yes, help may come, but you must work towards something for someone to believe that helping out is worth the effort.