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Don’t prepare, do. Don’t let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.

Steven Pressfield

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
This man has conquered the world! What have you done?” The philosopher replied without an instant’s hesitation, “I have conquered the need to conquer the world.
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Deep Hesitation Man Myself Need Philosophy World
The professional tackles the project that will make him stretch. He takes on the assignment that will bear him into uncharted waters, compel him to explore unconscious parts of himself. Is he scared? Hell, yes. He’s petrified.
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Exploration Himself Professional Project Water
Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
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Attitude Inspirational Quit Stubborn Success
Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
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Cheating Contribute World Yourself
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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Aspect Bed Death Habit Live Ourselves
Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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Resistance Work Yourself
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
When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.
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Authentic Beginning Crazy Drive Live Ourselves See
The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.
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Artist Best Inspirational Service
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 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
I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
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Art Better Division Life Myself War Writing
What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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Happiness Myself Simplicity
When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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Face Fears Run Stop
Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
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Act Brave Fear Inspirational Scare Yourself

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