Here’s why you need to show off your work now.

You try to be overly perfectionistic with your work and constantly try to finesse it until the brightest speck and shine. It’s definitely a good thing; however, it’s not doing you any good. And you’re losing out a lot!

How? This is my story.

I constantly try to fine-tune and polish my music production to a point where I feel it’s going to work. This takes days, weeks, months, and in some cases, years. Finally, when I decide to share the work, I feel I can do a bit more to improve it. And then I restart the ‘perfecting’ process again. The cycle continues, and finally, you’d never want that work to be out. You’ll want to start another one.

Same story for you?

So what you’re losing out on here is the prospect of someone liking it the way it is and wanting to buy it, promote it, or feature it. Or maybe even suggest some improvements or help you with some connections. By keeping it nice and secured until the time you make a seductive piece of work, you would have lost out on so much.

Here’s why you need to show off your work now— even if it is unfinished.

  1. Get inspired and charged up When making a painting, show off your progress—comment on it—explain your process. People will be surprised to learn about the making of your art form and will encourage you and offer their support.

  2. Validate your concept When you let your work out—bit by bit—you can ask people if they would buy the finished product. You’ll get suggestions and ideas from them, which, if required, can be adapted into the making of your final work.

  3. Build a community This format of letting your work out will simmer a highly engaged community, and they will help you reach out to a much wider audience when your ‘final work’ comes out. In today’s clogged world of everything, just being different and better won’t work. Come out of obscurity—share your ‘unfinished’ / ‘raw’ / ‘in the making’ work.

Make your voice and your work reach out. As Chase Jarvis puts it, “Sharing your work is the first step toward breaking through.”