It's also important to keep building up confidence, so try and make each performance in public a positive one. Like the late great Isaac Guillory said "always play within your limitations, then nobody will know you have any." The time to stretch yourself is back home practising. There's so many other factors which come into effect when in the spotlight that you need to do what you can do. And that way you will have fun and come back for more and learn and grow, and, and... (virtuous circle ensues until superstardom. Or at least a degree of self-fulfillment). I think what I'm trying to say is what Bev and Jerry said rather more succinctly: "get out there and share"!