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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.

Steven Pressfield

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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Born Defeat Impossible Resistance Success Support Time
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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Amateur Call Live Meaning Run True Work
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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Confidence Death Reality Scare Wild
If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don’t do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.
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Cure Destroy Fusion Hurt Planet Symphony Writing Yourself
We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we’re stuck with it.
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Destiny Personal Stuck World
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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Feeling Ourselves Potential Resistance See Touch Work
It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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Believe Lying Ourselves
The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don’t just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.
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Aspect Bed Death Habit Live Ourselves
Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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Attitude Inspirational Quit Stubborn Success
The last thing we want is to remain as we are.
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Be Yourself Original Reality
We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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Feed Food Resistance
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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Alone Army Legs Man Production Strength Victory Win
Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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Definition Destruction Myself Resistance
The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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Amateur Effort Master One Liner Work
When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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Face Fears Run Stop
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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Born Limitation Ourselves Resistance Spirit Worth

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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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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