'Casting yourself as a victim is the antithesis of doing your work.That is, the drama or the gossip or the nonsense that will otherwise distract her from her work - that which is most important. The artist will not tolerate 'trouble' in her life.Sex is a definite form of procrastination.This second, we can sit down and do our work.' p22 This second, we can turn the tables on resistance. 'There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.'We don't tell ourselves 'I'm never going to write my symphony.' Instead we say, 'I am going to write my symphony I'm just going to start tomorrow.' p21.Resistance is universal, yet we think we're the only one experiencing it.Resistance is impersonal, yet we think it has it in for us.Resistance is implacable, yet we try to reason with it.Resistance is insidious, yet we often give it the benefit of the doubt.Resistance is internal, yet we believe it to come from the outside.Reistance will be elicited by 'any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term growth, health, or integrity.' p6.Resistance is exactly that - the thing holding us back from our creative endeavours, no matter the sphere.'Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what resistance is.'.
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