-An exclusive excerpt from Allen’s new book-
How will you define success for your creative pursuits?
Though the world offers infinite ways to evaluate it, true success can never be fully measured by external metrics. Only God can truly see us and know us. He understands all we’ve had to battle through just to get to this point. As our Father, he has known us not as the world sees us, but as he saw us before time began.
In a noisy world where everyone has an opinion about everything, it is only his interpretation and validation that ultimately matter.
And with God, we are always fully known…and fully loved. It’s the kind of love that isn’t earned project by project, but simply for who we are. Only in him do we find our deepest meaning.
True success occurs when we pursue our dreams, projects, and people in our realm of influence with God.
When you step into this reality, you experience success as you create rather than hoping to achieve it after the fact, based on the response of others. This is a huge shift from how most operate. It allows you to create from a place of success rather than from an empty place that you hope to have filled by the reaction of others once they see your finished work. See the difference?
So take the pressure off yourself and your creativity to always come through. Your art was never meant to bear that burden. Your performance cannot tell you who you are. Only God can do that.
Don’t complicate it. If you are actively and intimately creating with God, that is the ultimate success. Plain and simple.
(From The Creativity Glitch: How to Stop Being Stuck, Find Your Groove, & Create with God. Copyright © 2026 Allen Arnold.)
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