Today I listened to an interesting podcast from the Accidental Creative team. They interviewed famed business consultant, Peter Block, who provided me with several quotes for my quote book as follows:

• • Anxiety is the price of freedom.
  • Certainty kills creativity.
  • I was born and everything is else is fiction.

I relate well to the last point. In my journey towards defining, finding, and then thriving in a “Dream Job” I have had to reflect on my story and how I present it to the world. My inner critic often challenges me on the life choices I am making:

• • Why did you resign from Industry Leading Tech Company X in 2007?
  • What do you want to do now? Why do you want to do this?
  • When will you have a statement of certainty surrounding your employment interests and life path?
  • How will you introduce your current employment state and interests to friends and business network?
  • How can you market yourself better?
  • Isn’t the time for growth and self discovery over?  Isn’t it easier to  “fall back” on your professional inertia and known/demonstrated talents?
  • Etc. Etc. Etc.

The truth is that my life story is dynamic and incomplete and that is okay! I am beginning a process of self discovery which I hope will land me a dream job.    Besides, I have realized something funny over the past few months: No one in my network has challenged me with the endless stream of questions that my inner critic produces in my idle and unsure moments…. Perhaps my network of contacts are too consumed struggling to understand and write their own “post birth” stories or maybe others are far more patient with the “uncertainty” I am facing than I am?

“Anxiety is the price of freedom” and for the moment, I would not have it any other way.