In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.
You have to find a group that really desperately cares about what it is you have to say. Talk to them. They have something I call otaku. It's a great Japanese word. It describes the desire of someone who's obsessed to, say, drive across Tokyo to try a new Ramen noodle place 'cause that's what they do, they get obsessed with it.
Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.