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Steven Pressfield _ Do the Work
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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Steven Pressfield _ Do the Work
The enemy is in you, but it is not you.
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Steven Pressfield _ Do the Work
We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. The tide in the affairs of men does not remain at flood-it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is adamant to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, "Too late." Martin Luther King, Jr. Beyond Vietnam – A Time to Break Silence New York City, April 4, 1967
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Steven Pressfield _ Do the Work
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
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Steven Pressfield _ Do the Work
Panic Is Good Creative panic is good. Here's why: Our greatest fear is fear of success. When we are succeeding-that is, when we have begun to overcome our self-doubt and self-sabotage, when we are advancing in our craft and evolving to a higher level-that's when panic strikes. It did for me when my book crashed, and it was the best thing that happened to me all year. When we experience panic, it means that we're about to cross a threshold. We're poised on the doorstep of a higher plane. Have you ever watched a small child take a few bold steps away from its mother? The little boy or girl shows great courage. She ventures forth, feels exhilaration, and then … she realizes what she has done. She freaks. She bolts back to Mommy. That's you and me when we're growing.
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Steven Pressfield _ Do the Work
When Michael Crichton approached the end of a novel {so I've read}, he used to start getting up earlier and earlier in the morning. He was desperate to keep his mojo going. He'd get up at six, then five, then three-thirty and two-thirty, till he was driving his wife insane. Finally he had to move out of the house. He checked into a hotel {the Kona Village, which ain't so bad} and worked around the clock till he'd finished the book. Michael Crichton was a pro. He knew that Resistance was strongest at the finish. He
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Steven Pressfield _ Do the Work
We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. The tide in the affairs of men does not remain at flood-it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is adamant to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, "Too late." Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Steven Pressfield _ Do the Work
Once we commit to action, the worst thing we can do is to stop. What will keep us from stopping? Plain old stubbornness. I like the idea of stubbornness because it's less lofty than "tenacity" or "perseverance." We don't have to be heroes to be stubborn. We can just be pains in the butt. When we're stubborn, there's no quit in us. We're mean. We're mulish. We're ornery. We're in till the finish. We will sink our junkyard-dog teeth into Resistance's ass and not let go, no matter how hard he kicks.
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Steven Pressfield _ Do the Work
any act that derives from our higher nature instead of our lower. Any of these acts will elicit Resistance.
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Steven Pressfield _ Do the Work
Ignorance and arrogance are the artist and entrepreneur's indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be-and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway.
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When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.
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Steven Pressfield _ Do the Work
When we experience panic, it means that we're about to cross a threshold. We're poised on the doorstep of a higher plane.
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