I always do it! And why not? I think it's good psychological practice. When you can stick it out through the 'you're pathetic because you're not popular' phase, and keep up your work against the deafening silence and apathy, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, meet with triumph and disaster, never breathe a word about your loss, If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew, To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you, Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
seriously, go read the whole poem. it'll inspire you.
If by Rudyard Kipling.
And keep the faith. Like your own stuff. You wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't important to you.