“Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experience it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential. It's a repelling force. It's negative. Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.”
― The War of Art
― The War of Art
“Look to the future.
Identify key skills.
Obsessively develop those skills.”
― High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way
Identify key skills.
Obsessively develop those skills.”
― High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way
“to try hard, to be honest, and to help others and ourselves. That’s all that’s been asked of us. No more and no less.”
― The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
― The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.”
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“Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.” —James Allen”
― High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way
― High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way
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