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What hinders your action?

December 8, 2016

Joseph Glidden tinkered with his wife's hairpin's to produce a barbed wire prototype. The production of barbed wire, after his 1873 patent, had a remarkable influence on the American expansion westward. Control of livestock was accomplished with strands of the inexpensive fencing. Agriculture flourished due to solid boundary lines enforced by this prickly sentry.

The simple strand changed the grazing patterns of wild herds that hand always moved freely. Additionally, the wire marked who owned what, and who could go where.

You and I live within boundary lines that may feel just as thorny.

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Tags Action, Joseph Glidden, Barbed Wire, Steven Pressfield, The War of Art, Inspire
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How do you push through doubt?

September 3, 2016

The insidious voice that plagues a vision can be crippling. In his book, The Art of War, Steven Pressfield describes the lizard brain activity as the resistance. This resistance is always a voice in the back of our heads that wants to quit. It recoils from producing the good work we know our hand must release into the world.

There is no guarantee the world will respond with millions of followers or dollars, but learning to dance with the doubt, and still proceed, is where we will learn to crystallize the vision.

To complete another class, write another page, pitch another client, or compose another song is where the doubt is weakened. Incessant water drops will break a stone. Showing up to produce good work will shatter this stone of doubt and cripple the resistance. Climb to your feet and produce.

In Inspiration Tags doubt, Steven Pressfield, The Art of War, resistance
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