I'm keenly aware of the Principle of Priority, which states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first.
Attention Deficit Disorder, Seasonal Affect Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder. These aren't diseases, they're marketing ploys. Doctors didn't discover them, copywriters did. Marketing departments did....
Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In the end the question can only be answered by action.Do it or don't do it.It may help to think of it t...
Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Ama...
We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day 4) We are committed over the long haul 5) The stakes for us are high and real 6) We accept re...
The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work.
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.Never forget: This very moment, we can change our...
The hardest thing in the world is to be ourselves.
The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.
Our job in this life 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.
It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
This man has conquered the world! What have you done?The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, I have conquered the need to conquer the world.
There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can hold only so many chickens.
The opposite of fear, Dienekes said, is love.
Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to...
Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.
Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die -- that is what we march for!
A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.
A thousand years from now Leonidas declared, two thousand, three thousand years hence, men a hundred generations yet unborn may, for their private purposes, make journey to our country. They will come...
She (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.