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.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDA child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.
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To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
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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 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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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experince it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential… Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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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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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.
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I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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