Thanks to Chris Corbin, I recently came across this excerpt from The War of Art. Very appropriate as we settle into some New Year’s resolutions. Hopefully it will serve as some inspiration as we head into 2011.
Best wishes for a fit & fresh 2011 - may it be your best year yet!!
Linsey
The Artist’s Life - by Steven Pressfield
“Are you a born writer? Were you put on the Earth to be 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 you to think of it this way. If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don’t do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.
You shame the angels who watch over you and you spite the Almighty, who created you and only you with your unique gifts, for the sole purpose of nudging the human race one millimeter farther along its path back to God.
Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. Its a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.”