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What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.

Steven Pressfield

The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.
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Difference Important Principle Urgent Yourself
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
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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Confidence Death Reality Scare Wild
Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance.
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Genius Resistance Shadow Sun
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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Attitude Day Game Mindset Night Play Production Professional
When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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Face Fears Run Stop
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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Enemy Resistance Rise Rival
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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Art Day Exception Important Try Work
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
Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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Government Master
Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn’t just skills like computer technology. It’s the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.
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Basic Build Computer Discipline Motivational Strength Technology
In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline.
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Death Discipline Experience Work
A cavalryman’s horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
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Animal Home Man Smart
Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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Definition Destruction Myself Resistance
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
Ignorance and arrogance are the artist’s and entrepreneur’s indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway.”
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Arrogant Artist Believe Difficult Enough Entrepreneur Herself Ignorance

What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.

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