Give Us What You Got

Happy New Year!

I came across this excerpt from the War of Art on a professional triathletes blog.

Steven Pressfield is a former Marine who has written some great novels and screenplays over the years. The subtitle to this particular books is Break Through The Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles. The direction of this motivational book was to help writers overcome the imfamous "writers block" but this particular excerpt is rich in meaning to all of us.

Get past the military-like tone its written in and find it's message. I think in its roughness lies a beautiful perspective that may lead us off the bench and into the game wherever you are.

Have a great and blessed day!

E

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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.”