"Don't take it personally"

This is tough advice. Sometimes it seems as though the only way to take it is personally. That customer who doesn't like your product (your best work) or that "best friend" who doesn't want to hang out with you any longer...

Here's the thing: it's never personal. It's never about you. How could it be? That person doesn't truly know you, understand what you want or hear the voices in your head. All they know is themselves.

When someone moves on, when she walks away or even badmouths you or your work, it's not personal about you. It's personal about her. Her agenda, her decisions, her story.

Do your work, the best way you know how. Is there any other option?

Stay true to what you love and the people who are supposed to be there will be.

Simple.

One day...everyone will love what I do.....

Why do you do what you do?

On that day, the day that everyone notices your work, approves and lets you know, then what will happen?

We spend an incredible amount of time and psychic energy planning and working for that day, but why? It will never arrive, and even if it does, it's not clear that anything special happens.

Perhaps the approval of every person in the entire world doesn't need to be the goal of your work.

Ask yourself, why do I do what I do? Is it for yourself, your dreams, your passion or is it based on others expectations of you?