Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
STEVEN PRESSFIELDResistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.
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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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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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The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.
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We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
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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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The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
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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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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.
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