Perfection is illusive and hard to do.

It’s free to guess.

It’s free to experiment.

It’s free to make mistakes.

Because this is how we get to the next level, by trying new things and making mistakes and then trying something different.

School taught me that making mistakes was wrong, I had to always get it right, but playing taught me that making mistakes was part of the learning process.

When you learn to ride a bike, you fall off.

When you learn to roller skate you fall down.

When you were learning to walk you fell down many times it was part of the learning process.

So making mistakes is part of learning to do it correctly.

To get to the next level you will fail a few times, maybe a lot of times but you will learn something new each time you do.

If you want to paint your great masterpiece or write the great Australian novel you will not start because of fear, knowing that it is such a big and noble project and everyone will understand because there is so much to prepare and there will be lots of excuses why you cannot start.

But if you decide to just paint and experiment or write a few lines of a story you will do it because it is not so big that you don’t know where to start and the fear will be small.

If you are prepared to guess a lot and experiment and make mistakes you will learn a lot and go up to the next level.

Perfection is illusive and hard to do.

But experimenting is easy and fun to do.

Stop trying for Artistic perfection and just have fun.