Consistently pouring out time to do “good enough” work—no, not perfect, because perfect almost always never happens—would attract a following without you pushing them to believe in your work. They just do.
Waiting for the “perfect” condition or the “perfect” outcome takes a lot of time, and nobody ships perfect because they always need more time to make it perfect. This becomes an endless cycle of chasing perfection that causes you to inadvertently miss out on what matters: doing the work and shipping it.
When you focus on the quality of work you do and produce, recognition comes organically. It may not come quickly, but it will, and it will be the kind of growth that sticks if you only begin and do the work.
Building something you value takes time. Time is a friend to those who never tire of doing the work day in and day out, even during the lonely days when nobody seems to care about your work. Do the work you care about long enough that time becomes a friend, a kind of validation, a testament to your perseverance and hard work.
Until the right people find your work, until then, never relent at shipping the “good enough.”
jessa 