The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell.

A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.

To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.

There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours.

One thing I've found in any project is almost universally about three quarters of the way through - or maybe a little father, maybe seventh eighths on the way through - any project will explode.

Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.