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The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don’t believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.

Steven Pressfield

Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
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Heart Hustle Inspirational Motivational Yourself
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
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
The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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Act Himself Inspirational Professional Wait
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
What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.
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Happiness Myself Simplicity
If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don’t do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.
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Cure Destroy Fusion Hurt Planet Symphony Writing Yourself
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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Enterprise Fear Feeling Growth Important Ourselves Soul
We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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Feed Food Resistance
The professional will not tolerate disorder… He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.
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Appearance Clothes Professional Tolerance
Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
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Blood Feeling Ideas Inspirational Love Right Yourself
The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don’t believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.
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Artist Believe Effort Inspirational Life Production
We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we’re stuck with it.
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Destiny Personal Stuck World
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
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
When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
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Face Fears Run Stop

The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don’t believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.

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The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don’t believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.

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