Do it!

“Choose your art, practice your art, always, always choose your art over and above anything else. If you can’t do that, then you have—what, a few more years?”

Ava • how to avoid half-heartedness

what you’re avoiding will unlock the next phase of your becoming. you’re scared because you don’t know how to do it, because you’ve never done it before. that won’t change until you try, until you start. you evolve by practicing and *becoming* the person that acts courageously.

Isabel x.com

Whenever you chicken out, you don't just feel the pain of cowardice; you miss out on the pleasure of courage.

Adam Mastroianni • So You Wanna De-Bog Yourself

The choice is simple: Madness. Or take a leap of faith.

Curt Jaimungal x.com

X. It’s what’s happening

the sooner you make an attempt despite the fear the sooner you can make an additional attempt. as you put off your initial attempt, you are putting off the entire series that would then constitute the very practice which is required to develop skill so that you no longer fear it

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via THE CREATIVE HABIT by TWYLA THARP:

Sadly, some people never get beyond the box stage in their creative life. We all know people who have announced that they’ve started work on a project-say, a book—but some time passes, and when you politely ask how it’s going, they tell you that they’re still researching. Weeks, months, years pass and they prod

Making things is hard and I feel like that’s the most useful thing to say about it.

Ava • Making Things Is Hard

@nickcammarata I saw someone once say “the easiest way to stop procrastinating is to pretend you’re an NPC who has no choice” and it’s dumb as all hell but also works for me

The AI Mortgage Guy x.com