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 PRESSFIELDThe amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.
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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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Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are… That we actually have the guts, the perserverance, the capacity… because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know.
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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 sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen… Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.
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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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Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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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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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.
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Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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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.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD