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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

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
Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
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Argue Courage Separate Virtue Warrior
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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Challenge Dreams Fear Joy Love Ourselves Passion See Work
Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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Act Brave Fear Inspirational Scare Yourself
To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
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Born Limitation Ourselves Resistance Spirit Worth
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
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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Capacity Discover Fear Perseverance Thinking
Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
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Preparation Research Resistance Work
Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.
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End Greatness Inspirational Resistance Success
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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Day Force Mystery Purpose Start
Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
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Life Live Resistance Stand
The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn’t talk about it. She does her work.
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Amateur Glory Hereslf Mystery Occupation Professional Talk Work
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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Change Destiny Forget Live Moments Ourselves Power
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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Call Scare Work
Don’t prepare, do. Don’t let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.
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Foundation Preparation Resistance Wasted Time
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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Herself Investment Love Professional Work

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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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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