E64. How to Judge the Value of Your Creative Work

It is notoriously difficult for creatives and artists to judge their own work. We cycle through extremes: one day we think we're awesome, the next we think we must have been delusional to believe we had any talent. We're even worse when it comes to other people's judgements of our work: a single critical comment can derail us for weeks, months, years. Given our sensitivities, how can we ever know the true value of our work? How do we know if it's any good, worth spending time on, putting out into the world?

In this episode I give you some new parameters to use in judging your own work that will help you have a more stable assessment of its value. Why is this important? Because using the wrong parameters for judging our work is a major reason we get blocked. When we have self-confidence in ourselves as creatives/artists and in our work and its value, we'll find ourselves reliably inspired and motivated to continue on in the face of the many challenges we encounter on our path to achieving our creative dreams.

This episode's accompanying blog post can be found here.

Here is my blog post on maintaining motivation over time.