You don’t have to be the best musician to start the band.
You don’t have to be the fastest player to get the team together.
You don’t have to give the most money to get the fund raiser going.
Often times the best musicians, fastest players and deepest pockets lack the skill or time or effort to go first, to initiate, to rally the people.
But once YOU get the thing going, they’re thrilled and eager to join in. Go first.
In all likelihood, if you’re there you belong there.
So the feeling that you don’t belong, the feeling of being an imposter, the feeling of being the fake…it’s important to couple that feeling with the fact that most of the time it isn’t true.
And leaning into the truth that you belong wherever you are frees you up to make a bigger difference and have a better time.
It’s hard to identify with people and cultures from thousands of years ago.
But when I think about the people making the cave paintings…trying to make it great, trying to tell a story, trying to make something cool, trying to get the lines in proportion, trying to make something to show the people around them, worried that none of this will work out…
…not much has changed for an artist from then till now.
Starting out there’s a lot of drive and not a lot of opportunity.
Then for those who are skilled and lucky and determined enough to climb to the top of the mountain, the other side of it often looks like…a lot of opportunity and not a lot of drive.
»» It’s easy to blame others for a lack of opportunity…pretty tough to blame others for a lack of drive.