“Nature loves Courage”

I’ve been battling against what Steven Pressfield calls “the resistance”. All the distractions that come exactly when I should be the most focused. I have a vision of what I need to do - what I need to create - a piece that I have visualized since my son was born. Sitting down to work on it, I freeze a bit because it feels too important. As with every piece, the most important step is to take the first one. The first small or slowest one. Build moment through every next action and alleviate the pressure by having faith that finally taking on this piece is exactly what I’m meant to be doing.

The following quote also comes to mind and helps invigorate this mental framework:

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.” Terence McKenna