I have seen your greatness
The strength of your will
What it took this far
Is what will take you further still*
Lemn Sissay

learning is about becoming incompetent on the way to getting better**
Seth Godin

If you got this far, you
can go further, though, be warned, the greatest
resistance is within you, and whilst your
competence tastes sweet in this moment, your greater
possibility lies in your incompetence, your
getting lost, becoming
a beginner again;
Don’t assume this is as far
as you can go – the only
way you’ll know how much
distance there is in you is when you
happen, and, when you happen,
Things will happen around you:
Happening changes the story.

The enemy is Resistance. The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing , alibis, transparent self-justifications, and a million reasons why we can’t/shouldn’t/won’t do what we know we need to do. Start before you’re ready.^

*Lemn Sissay’s let the light pour in;
**Seth Godin’s blog: In search of competence;
^Steven Pressfield’s Do the Work; I was reflecting on the resistance when these words appeared in the next book I picked up this morning.