The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.