Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDDon’t prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.
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Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.
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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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When we’re living as amateurs, we’re running away from our calling – meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.
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When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.
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The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.
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Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn’t talk about it. She does her work.
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Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It’s nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye.
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Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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A cavalryman’s horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
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The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.
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