Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDWe will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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The opposite of fear is love – love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.
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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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Don’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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Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.
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Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.
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We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are… That we actually have the guts, the perserverance, the capacity… because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know.
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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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In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline.
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Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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Fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
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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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Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.
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