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.
STEVEN PRESSFIELDDefeating 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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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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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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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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It’s one thing to lie to ourselves. It’s another thing to believe it.
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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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Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
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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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Fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
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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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Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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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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Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
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