Validate yourself

I came across Seth Godin’s post “Validation is overrated” this morning. By the way, I like to say that ‘overrated is overstated’.

If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it.

Don’t wait for anyone to give you the nudging go-ahead to start that song or project. The same projects I talked about starting nearly a decade ago remain to be started; I still consider many of them meaningful and do wish to start them.

If it’s meaningful for you, get to it– otherwise, years will go by with nothing but airy aspiration to show for.