Do the Work

Do the Work

Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it's not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account.

The enemy is resistance.

The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications and a million reasons why he can't/shouldn't/won't do what we know we need to do.

Start before you're ready.

Steven Pressfield is the bestselling author of The Legend of Bagger Vance, Gates of Fire, and The War of Art. The latter book spawned Do the Work, as readers kept asking, "What is this terrible thing called Resistance--and how can I overcome it?" Pressfield is a graduate of Duke University and an honorary citizen of the city of Sparta in Greece.