Are you waiting for your last supper to share your gifts with the world?

“I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.”
~~ Leonardo da Vinci, artist, d. 1519

“On his deathbed, they say, Leonardo da Vinci regretted that he had left so much unfinished. Leonardo had so many ideas; he was so ahead of his time. His notebooks were crammed with inventions: new kinds of clocks, a double-hulled ship, flying machines, military tanks, an odometer, the parachute, and a machine gun, to name just a few. If you wanted a new high-tech weapon, a gigantic bronze statue, or a method for moving a river, Leonardo could devise something that just might work. But Leonardo rarely completed any of the great projects that he sketched in his notebooks. His groundbreaking research in human anatomy resulted in no publications — at least not in his lifetime. Not only did Leonardo fail to realize his potential as an engineer and a scientist, but he also spent his career hounded by creditors to whom he owed paintings and sculptures for which he had accepted payment but — for some reason — could not deliver, even when his deadline was extended by years. His surviving paintings amount to no more than 20, and five or six, including the ‘Mona Lisa,’ were still in his possession when he died. Apparently, he was still tinkering with them. Nowadays, Leonardo might have been hired by a top research university, but it seems likely that he would have been denied tenure. He had lots of notes but relatively little to put in his portfolio.”

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How do you overcome the fear of rejection, the fear of failure, the fear of not being good enough to share your gifts?

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