Steven Pressfield

Writing Wednesdays: “I’m On A Mission”

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Writing Wednesdays: “I’m On A Mission”.

“The mission devours you, but it feeds you too. It endows you with focus. It lends your actions meaning. You define it and it defines you.

If you’re reading this blog, my guess is that you’re on a mission too. Don’t tell me. I don’t need to know what it is. I respect you just for having it. I salute you. If we pass in the street, I will see that mission in your eyes and I’ll silently honor it and honor you.

You had no choice in your mission, did you? You didn’t pick it. It picked you, just like it picked Jake and Elwood Blues.

That’s not bad company to be in.”

Steven Pressfield

Writing Wednesdays – Steven Pressfield Online

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We all have stories that we tell ourselves about what our lives are—and those stories are always wrong.

via Writing Wednesdays | Steven Pressfield Online.

Learn to cut through the clutter and tune out the noise.  Accept the truth about your life’s story, your situation, your Path.  If you like what you see, do nothing.  If you don’t like what you see, time to change.

 

Steven Pressfield – The Lunch Pail Manifesto

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The Lunch Pail Manifesto

  1. We must find the work that brings our lives meaning.
  2. We must strive to make our work purposeful, truthful, and authentic, a pure offering to our Muse and fellow human beings.
  3. We must wage a lifelong war with Resistance and accept that instant gratification is an oxymoron.
  4. We must not speak of our work with false modesty or braggadocio.
  5. We must not debase our work for short term gain nor elevate it above its rightful station to inflate our ego.
  6. We must not covet the fruits of our work, or the fruits of others’ work.
  7. We must respect others’ work and offer aid to fellow professional laborers.
  8. We must accept that our work will never be perfect.
  9. We must accept that our work will never be without merit.
  10. We must accept that our work will never cease.

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