Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it..

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….

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 ….

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….

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,….

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….

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

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….

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….

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

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….

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

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….