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 dest….

Don't prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are rea….

Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one ….

When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life's preservation,….

Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we’re thinking like amate….

The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it..

We show up. We do our best. Good things happen..

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying..

Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them..

Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got..

Figure out what scares you the most and do that first..

The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it..

When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them..

The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence because she needs to avoid….

Look in your own heart. Unless I'm crazy, right now a still small voice is piping up, telling you as it has ten thousand times, the calling that is y….

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, w….

Resistance in my experience always kicks in when you're trying to move from a lower level to a higher level or to identify with a braver part of your….

The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there….

Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account. Th….

It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write..

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..