There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDI 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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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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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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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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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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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 professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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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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Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
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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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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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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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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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It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.
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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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