creative fulfillment
hobby
- something you do because it's fun and you like it
- hobbies bring an end to anxiety
- puttering about doing something for no reason
job
- something you have to have
- you don't have to like it
- it doesn't have to be your purpose
- you don't have to be great at it - it doesn't have to consume your entire life
- don't give your heart to it
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What happens when we turn pro is, we finally listen to that still, small voice inside our heads. At last we find the courage to identify the secret dream or love or bliss that we have known all along was our passion, our calling, our destiny.
Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro
Painting writing coaching entrepreneur
The amateur spends his time in the past and the future. He permits himself to fear and to hope. The professional has taught himself to banish these distractions. When Stephen Sondheim makes a hat, he is thinking of nothing else. He is immersed. He loses himself in the work and in the moment.