I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.