Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way
- Xavier Savage
- Nov 23, 2019
- 2 min read
Why should I read do the work?
Do the work, should be read by any and everyone struggling, with overcoming fear, and getting their masterpieces complete.
No matter what you given discipline is whether its creative or business related, you have to give your all if you want to succeed,
Your own worst enemy
Your inner resistance are the lies, and stories you tell yourself so that you don’t have to do the work. Its a passive aggressive self monologue, that will destroy your dreams if you let it.
We all get stuck, but this book is must read to for those ready to break free from the mud.
Identify all friends and foes
Good music will motivate you to workout just as a good tv show will convince you to stay home and binge watch.
These are examples of friends and foes.
What are the friends and foes, in your creative life?
Excessive planning and overthinking will ruin you
When you over think and over plan it is a form of procrastination and resistance.b There will never be a right time to get started, you just need a clear enough plan, and end goal to move forward.
When you feel fear ignore it.
How badly do you want this? and Why do you want this?
Confront the enemies within your mind, when you run out of creative juice and self doubt creeps in, these are dragons that must be slayed.
Overcoming fear by finishing your work will only make you stronger and more capable.
Summary of do the work
Stop quitting right before you hit gold, in the history of civilization, there have been countless people who could of been great had they kept going.
If you read the biographies of your favorites celebs and athletes, you will hear nothing but stories, or people getting beaten silly by resistance. And only when they learned to overcome it did they become great.
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