Howdy, good day and welcome to another episode of the show.

This micro show is about the thing that we all don't like to talk about, which is sharing and promoting our work.

Doesn't matter what this work is, any creative work, whether you're building a business, writing a symphony, writing a book,

performing a play. The sharing cycle is very important. And some will tell you,

I'm not one of these people, but some will, that simply doing the work is enough. However,

I'm one of the people that believe that sharing and promoting your work aren't simply marketing, right?

These are actually profoundly nourishing and necessary functions of your creativity.

Now the purists, maybe your art teacher back in college, they might not think that.

But I believe that these functions are a way of showing yourself, demonstrating to you that what you make you

value, that you value your own work.

Now in fact, I think there's this lovely circular flow.

I did a little diagram of this in my book, Creative Calling, that you'll find in the life

of any healthy and productive creative person.

And this cycle, it starts with creating,

it goes to sharing, then it goes to promoting what you shared, which then in turn cultivates

community and brings you back to creating again. Now, in all the research that I did leading up

to creative calling, my experience, having basically

known creativity as the only, it's only career I've ever had as a professional creator,

that plus the research points to the fact that the most prolific, successful, I would say

prominent and even fulfilled professional creators that I've come across, they're always

constantly working their way around this loop.

Now, sometimes they're even doing lots of loops concurrently with all kinds of different projects.

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